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Fig. 1

From: Fire and land cover change in the Palouse Prairie–forest ecotone, Washington and Idaho, USA

Fig. 1

The Palouse Prairie–forest ecotone in the early 1900s had few fields and houses, as well as native prairie (open hillside), and both pine savanna (slopes and ridges in the background of this photo) and forest (denser with trees than pine savanna). Native Americans cultivated and harvested camas in the intermittent wetlands. Early farmers used large teams of horses to plow the rich prairie soils and harvest the resulting crops; they grazed their horses in the prairie and savanna. Photo credit: Idaho Historical Society, Boise, Idaho, USA

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