The results of an old-fashioned ring hunt in 1760.

In just a 30 square mile areaof Pennsylvania, 200 men killed 1200 animals in a day.

They then piled the animals as high as a tree and burned them all.

What a waste!

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From the article:

"The hunters, standing at intervals about 200 yards apart, made bonfires, rang bells, and fired their muskets into the air, while gradually advancing toward a cleared area in the middle of the circle. They drove all the wild mammals into the clearing, then shot and killed 1200 of them. Hundreds of animals did escape. Faced with a choice between a concentration of wolves, cougars, and bears or puny but noisy humans, hundreds of bison, along with some deer and elk, stampeded through the perimeter and broke free. This probably explains why the ratio of carnivores in the final talley is so unusually high. The death toll included 198 white-tail deer, 111 bison, 2 elk, 109 wolves, 112 foxes, 41 cougars, 114 bobcats and/or Canadian lynx, 17 black bears, 1 white bear, 12 wolverines, 3 fishers, 3 beavers, 1 otter, and 500 smaller mammals probably consisting of assorted rabbits, squirrels, possums, raccoons, and skunks."