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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3576052" data-attributes="member: 7883">Why do they have to be hunter-gatherers?  Very, very early in the thread, I and others pointed out several forest-dwelling peoples in history, who were able to succeed.  The Mayans, with populations of hundreds of thousands, are a good example.  And it was simply by virtue of figuring out where to find really good soil, that could be transported to their cities, and used to permit much larger population densities than you'd typically think possible in the middle of a forest.I'm sure that a magical race of nature lovers could figure something similar out.  They could have terraced gardens growing food on multiple levels, built vertically on their trees for all we know.  This would definitely reduce their reliance on being hunter gatherers, and allow them to live in the woods, without massive fields of grain.Banshee</blockquote>