Re: Harmonious depredations

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/8/00 7:08:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jbois@umd5.umd.edu writes:

> > For that matter, I doubt he has actually *looked* at bracken meadows.  
The 
>  > cover there is at least as good as in grasslands.
>  
>  Where is there one?

There are plenty here in the Pacific Northwest, along with large areas 
covered in horsetails.  These, and our preponderance of evergreen trees, make 
me think that our forests are probably not a too-unreasonable proxy for 
Cretaceous forests--the cooler ones, at least.

Nick P.