In our modern world, we always move from one place to another. We use road signs, maps, and even GPS devices to help us achieve our goals. Many times, older travelers do not use such sophisticated ways to get directions. Old schoolchildren, like me, still use paper cards or ask someone for directions.
But how do you move from A to B in the forest? It's so easy to get lost, especially since several technologies are available for navigating through them. Even a basic compass can be difficult to use. If you do not take well-worn, designed park paths that can easily guide you back and forth, you should have an exceptionally good memory for qualified distances and directions. But, if you were blindfolded and thrown into a dense forest, it would be impossible to return to civilization.
Centuries ago, Native Americans created a basic system that uses trees to navigate forests. Have you ever walked a long time through the woods in the United States and saw old trees that are strangely bent? Native Americans bent the seedlings in directions to help other Indian tribes find important landmarks. These "signs of Indian footprints," also known as "footprints of Indian footprints," pointed to other natives for "rest stops." However, the traveling natives probably did not know exactly what these bent trees indicate, except that they indicated important places such as the purchase of water, food, stones for making tools, as well as searching for burial places and areas where they lived. other indigenous tribes.
Early natives took saplings of oak, maple and elm trees and bent them down until the peaks fell close to the ground. Over time, when these trees grow much larger, they turn into strange, curved shapes. Instead of rising straight up from five feet up, they curved sharply at a right angle, parallel to the ground. Then they sharply turned up. This form of such a tree seems a zigzag. Bent area between the corner and the straight part, height up, “indicated” to important destinations.
Over the past hundred years, networks of special trees have been discovered in villages, parks and private property throughout the country. Since 2013, more than 2,000 trees have been located in 40 states. In addition, the search continues. However, they are being reduced as more forests are cleared for modern development, but historians and environmental organizations are struggling to preserve these trees as historical natural landmarks. With continued research, there is little doubt that many more trees can be found.
