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How Peat Lands Have Featured in the Human Imagination
The Red Wolf was functionally extinct in 1975 and has been successfully reintroduced to the peat lands of North Carolina and Virginia. The smell many people considered to be toxic, that it was the cause of diseases such as malaria and cholera. This negative view of peat lands was brought to the new world to the first Virginia colonies. George Washington came along before he was president,. He actually set up a company whose sole purpose was to drain the Great Dismal Swamp with Congress' help.
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