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From: Michael Hohensee <michael@sparta.mainstream.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 13:36:20 -0500
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Derrick Jones wrote:
> I also meantioned disasters. Frequent tornadoes and lightning strikes
> (starting forest fires) pretty much wiped out the forests which once
> covered the Great Plains in the US. Forests that are devistated as such
> begin their growth from start if enough area is destroyed to prevent
> re-seeding. The Plains were in the tall grasses phase when 'discovered',
> and mans (as well as nature's) constant intervention kept them from ever
> growing back. Forests bordering on destroyed areas have a gradual edge
> after a while, as the shrubs and smaller trees re-seed more quickly, and
> they will slowly spread out over the area.
>
Actually, plains arise because of periodic droughts. In the Plains,
great big droughts occur every X number of years, and trees cannot
tolerate this. Grasses, on the other hand, do quite nicely, hence the
Plains are covered in grass. :)
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