1. What did the Pilgrims see when they landed in Massachusetts, 400 years ago? A “hidious and desolate wilderness.” But they quickly learned to harvest its "great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many.” https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/return-of-the-turkey/417648/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...

2. They imagined a bright line between wilderness and civilization. What they couldn’t see was that the land they’d come to had been carefully tended, that the great store of wild turkeys was not a bounty of nature, but a product of man. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/return-of-the-turkey/417648/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...

3. For the next four centuries, Americans largely replicated their error. But now, turkeys—and squirrels and deer and even coyotes—are teaching us differently. They’re adapting to urban environments, and showing how illusory that bright line always was: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/return-of-the-turkey/417648/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...