by Carl Strang
There was a time when I thought of the North American landscape in an ideal sense, wanting my ecological studies to delve into the interactions of organisms and their history without any messy intrusions of human influence. Certainly my experiences as a graduate student in the Alaskan wilderness supported that point of view. As I spent more time in the field and continued to observe, and think, I gradually came to the realization that this ideal vanished thousands of years ago as humans filled the continent and influenced it strongly. That understanding became more concrete as I visited earthworks created by Native American civilizations. My first such encounter was Serpent Mound in Ohio.
It is difficult to have a proper perspective from ground level. The shape is a winding narrow mound with a mouth-like extension at one end embracing a separate oval shape.
The whole has been…
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