KLAMarine said:
With no regard to how their activities might impact the environment? Not that it mattered then as much as it does now: the US today hosts hundreds of millions of people, many more than what I figure there was before the 1770s. |
Proportionally the number of people with intentions to hunt and fish are smaller than they were then, and the available land is much greater. This is what the United States looked like in 1790.
This is where the federal government claims land.