If you could go back in time - where and when ?

[bgreene]

Originally Posted by scook

The video worked.

I’d go for a couple of hundred years. The indigenous tribes did a little taming of the environment, but I think a majority of it was pretty unspoiled.

Even in the 1940’s when Grand Coulee Dam was completed on the Columbia River, the Salmon runs were spectacular (even with over harvesting). Dad said it made him sick to watch film of the masses of Salmon roiling the water at the base of the dam, finding no way up to their spawning beds. Whole genetic lines of Salmon were extincted in one swoop.

I have the boat and all the gear, but 4 times out this year with my very experienced fishing buddy and not ONE bite. Hoping for improvement, but it’s pretty sad.

I envy you guys on the Atlantic coast - multiple species and a lot safer access to the ocean than out here on the Pacific.

Sorry to be such a downer.

We’ve seen how careful environmental protections CAN reinvigorate nature .
The North American Indians actually did make an impact of course on much smaller scale.
Once they stopped being migratory and set up permanent dwellings, farming, and harvesting game in their regions.

We know Indians have linked nature with spirits.
There’s something very unique about remaining wild lands that were NEVER obliterated and remain as have always been. In Washington State, on the edge of our only rain forest in North America - Olympic National Park there is such a place …….I had a unique somewhat spiritual experience there.
Years later while watching a nature TV show, the explorer commented of feeling a special way in a few of our remaining completely unspoiled places. My wife said to me WOW that’s like what you said back in Washington State !!!!!