Vegetation is often consumable by animals. In pre industrial America, the prairie supported millions of bison. The African grasslands support millions of Wildebeest. Yet northern New England for example, even though it is super green and covered in plant life, never has had the mammal biomass of the prairies, in the last couple thousand years, afaik. Why not? The woods in northern New England stretch endlessly for miles and miles and miles yet the forests lack plentiful numbers of large charismatic mammals. Why is this?
I’m aware moose and deer exist, and that there used to be caribou, but not in massive herds like the US midwestern plains.
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> The woods in northern New England stretch endlessly for miles and miles and miles
Yes, except that it’s rocky/craggy/mountainous forest, not flat grassland. What is flat is similarly mostly rocks. Look up how Hardscrabble changed its name to Farmingdale to attract new residents. You *cannot* compare New England to the Great Plains like that. Ausable Chasm is not the Grand Canyon of the east.
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