... has been so rapturously portrayed by the more romantic environmentalists who question the direction of modern life and call for a new environmental ethic. It would appear that Indians exploited the environment just as carelessly and as effectively as does modern man. The mythologized Indians used wasteful and ecologically unsound methods of altering their habitats with the same negligence. The forests of New England, the Midwest, and the Southeast had been disturbed to ... to manage the growing list of national parks, monuments, and historic sites. The National Park Service Organic Act ...

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