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The centrality of marshlands to Acadia’s development is well known. Less familiar is how regional marsh relations were typified by two practices that differed between core and periphery. The earliest, the extensive practices of salt marsh pasturing and haying, required little time or community structure. Marsh reclamation, undertaken in pursuit of intensive agricultural practices, followed but was dependent upon sufficient developmental time and community cooperation. The portrayal of these relations as a linear evolution climaxing in reclamation masks the spatiotemporal reasons why extensive exploitation persisted on the periphery, where settlement was recent and communities were still coalescing. This insight clarifies Acadian marsh relations on Île Saint-Jean, where extensive practices dominated during the 18th century.
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