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Well that's pretty fascinating.

• zdragnar 3y ago
  It also seems to be off by a few hundred years, alas.
  • bawolff 3y ago
    Hmm? Contact happened in the early 1500s, it probably takes 50-100 years or so for forest to revert back to natural state. Doesn't seem that far off.
    • zdragnar 3y ago
      Temperatures were steadily declining from at least roughly 1280, though it didn't reach the point of being termed "little ice age" until later. If changes to native burning due to contact-spread diseases are to be responsible, it wouldn't make sense for the temperatures to be declining for 250 years or more prior to contact.