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What We've Lost
As more people arrived, more
forests were cut down and more land
to turn over the soil to prepare to farm it
v.
was plowed. The passenger pigeons
plowed
had smaller and smaller areas in
which to nest and to find food.
Farmers shot the pigeons to protect
their crops.
Unit 11 | What We've Lost
