GP didn't make any allusion to the 'noble savage' myth. The quote: > you'd think that dense evergreen forests are the "natural" state of the ecosystem They a

GP didn't make any allusion to the 'noble savage' myth. The quote: > you'd think that dense evergreen forests are the "natural" state of the ecosystem They are speaking of the current state of the forests and how they would appear natural, not that one land management practice was more or less natural than the other.