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33) What was the dominant land cover plant here 10,000 years ago?

Posted on May 9, 2003 at 6:11 PM

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Tall grasses.

Hmm... that is on the prairie. Conifers, ferns, and cedar were probably covering most of Missoula.

Posted by Destini on January 6, 2007 at 12:55 AM

I don't know, but likely it was some form of taiga.

Posted by Bobbie on July 13, 2006 at 3:17 AM

Where I live the dominant plant cover 10,000 years ago were pine trees.

Posted by Lynne on July 13, 2006 at 12:24 AM

A guess....redwoods.

Posted by Jane on February 19, 2006 at 1:10 AM

In between the ice and floods our area was temperate rainforest. It's thought that the native americans controlled much of oregon with fire, turning much of our valley into a large oak savannah and prairie filled lots of food and game.

Posted by cabeal on December 29, 2005 at 9:06 PM

The dominant plant cover here was called "ice"

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/glaciers.html

Posted by Kelly H. on September 28, 2005 at 8:51 PM

Buffalo grass.

That's what it says in the park next door.

Posted by John S. Quarterman on September 18, 2005 at 5:22 AM

Grasses and old growth forest, without a doubt. In Bayonne, saltwater marshland was much of it with some old forest on the ridgeline.

Posted by Christopher Wanko on September 12, 2005 at 8:54 PM


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