Originally Posted by gobbler
Lets just think about Moundville area - similar to tallassee and other native high population centers. Moundville had, estimated in it's heyday, 10,000+ natives living there associated with the complex. Walking..... Imagine the impact they had on the local landscape. They couldn't travel terribly far in a day and reports indicate they went "off hunting" to '"hunting grounds". They HAD to because they devastated the local game populations around their population centers. Just like the plains indians using buffalo jumps to kill thousands of buffalo, most of which were wasted, to provide meat for the population. There are vast areas I have seen on maps of early settlers where very few indians lived and were used only for hunting to provide food. So much for "balance". These humans heavily manipulated the habitat and the game populations. The balance was more accidental due to low populations FAR away from population centers. Balance in predator/prey sounds good in a pretty poem.



You know I’ve been trying to think of other ways to word this because I’m really not just trying to be a dikhead by saying it but I cant….. Your response is so far out of the realm of anything I said though that I have to assume that your either bullchitting me or you didn’t take the time to comprehend what I said…..I really don’t know of another way to respond than that......For what its worth, here it is again.



Originally Posted by CNC
I think y’all may take where I’m coming from wrong sometimes……In a lot of ways I’m looking at it from more of an engineering and physics perspective in simply understanding how its built and how it functions from a foundational level…..what are the principles that hold constant…..When we use words like balance what I’m really referring to is something more like a chemistry or math equation where no matter how you slice it up…..when you do something to this side of the equation it has an effect on the other side…..For every action there is a reaction…..You add this then it subtracts that….If we understand how all of those equations work with each of the variables then we know what will happen if we adjust this variable this way and that one that way……. And if game species like deer, turkey, and quail are what we want and the game board looks like “X”….or “Y” and we’re constrained at how we can go about effecting change…..then understanding these principles help us to know what can still be tweaked to help get the desired effect……





Last edited by CNC; 05/13/22 05:03 PM.
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