what i didn't know and am WOWED to learn.
Sheep farming - major impact on our NE area. Sheep populations in the millions, 97% of the land cleared, 100,000 miles of 4' stonewalls erected, 10-20 feet a day laid. leading to - overgrazing - Cape Cod forests transformed to dunes, serve erosion occured, silt filled rivers, buildups caused the most serve floods ever.
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