Animals of the Hackensack Meadowlands

Settlers practiced burning of woods and fields in fall and spring (Thayer 1964) which may have lead to subsidence of peat marshes and decline of Atlantic white cedar forests. The cedar was harvested for a variety of purposes, including a supply of timber for shipmasts for the British navy (Quinn 1997). By the late 1700s, the first attempts at ... ................
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