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During the Last Glacial Maximum about 18,000 years ago, the glacial front in the eastern United States extended south to the approximate location of the Missouri and Ohio River. These glaciers destroyed any vegetation in their path, and cooled the climate near their front.
Although the major modern community types were flourishing in the Southeast by 10,000 years BP, and the climate was similar to that today, the understory flora had not yet come to resemble modern herbaceous floras. Mixed hardwood forests dominated the majority of the upper Coastal Plains, Piedmont, and lower mountain regions. Southern pine ...
Most of these plants have true roots and leaves, and many were quite tall. The tree-like Archaeopteris, ancestral to the gymnosperms, and the giant cladoxylopsid trees had true wood. These are the oldest known trees of the world's first forests. Prototaxites was the fruiting body of an enormous fungus that stood more than 8 meters tall. By the ...
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On April 10, they entered the “Chesupioc” Bay and landed alongside “faire meddowes and goodly tall trees.” [8] Finally on April 26, 1607, the London Company reached Virginia, and declared their settlement Jamestown in honor of the King. [9] Almost immediately the London Company began sending shipments of trees back to England.
The family of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation has an idea — "you see kids this is what our forefathers did, walked down into the woods and picked out that special tree with their bare ...
According to Britannica, once the trend of having Christmas trees really took off around the world, there was some concern in various areas over the decreasing supply of trees. To help combat the ...
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