Draft General Management Plan, Environmental Assessment: March 1992; Prince William Forest Park, Virginia (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Draft General Management Plan, Environmental Assessment: March 1992; Prince William Forest Park, Virginia

European settlers in the 16003. This expanse of woodlands was virtually untouched by human activity. However, as European populations expanded into America and settlers moved westward, the forests were gradually cleared, settlements established, and crops planted.

Because it was close to the Potomac River, a major travel corridor, Prince William Forest Park was one of the first sites cleared, settled, and planted with corn. Cotton, and tobacco. From about 1700 until well into the 2oth century, the lands in the park were farmed intensively. Depleted of nutrients. And then abandoned. In the early 19305 the Roosevelt administration. Recognizing the long-term effects of poor farming practices on these and other lands along the eastern seaboard. Set them aside as part of a Depression-era program directed at public relief employment and land reclamation. The plan was to establish the areas as examples of proper stewardship and to encourage their return to natural conditions by preventing soil erosion and stream pollution, and facilitating reforestation and forestation.

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