Native Americans and European affect the New England ecosystem very differently because of their different view about the use of nature. According to Cronon, “Many European visitors were struck by what seemed to them the poverty of Indians who lived in the midst of the landscape endowed so astonishingly with abundance” (Cronon, 33). European criticize the Native Americans of how they did not use the land accordingly to what they were supposed to do. Thus, they see the abundance of the natural resource as an opportunity. A large amount of forest were destroyed by Europeans because they came from a place of scarcity, regarding lumber and woods. They used the forest for building ships, fences and fuel. European used the grinding method to provide
