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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
Glad you mentioned this. was going to say that I read a fellows story recently and he walked from just north of lesser Slave lake to Peace River area 150 years ago. He mentioned there were no trees.
When the buffalo were here there were few trees south of the north saskatchewan. The buffalo and forest fires kept trees from growing.
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Dad claimed that when he came to the Peace country, there were few places where he could not see for miles, over the trees, from the back of a horse.
He said most trees were less then ten feet tall and there were burnt stumps and logs everywhere.
I still find the odd burnt log or stump even now, but they are fewer each year and harder to see. Some are so overgrown one has to peel off moss to see that they were burnt, and not just deadfall.