Do you have a more serious map without his head in the way?
The problem is going to be getting Congress to go against the railroads who wanted the land used for farming so they could benefit.
Individual homesteading won't be happening, it will be more beneficial to settle as communities to be...
How many optional routes does the U.S. have in the island hopping campaign?
Wait around those islands, and prioritize troop transports equally or more than supply ships.
The Pacific is big, but the Americans have to cross all of it to reach Japan.
You need the Japanese military to stick to...
The most obvious would be collecting ice, to ship to arid areas and to refill aquifers.
Food in Antarctica will be a problem, all that's local will be fish, penguins, and penguin eggs.
Krill and plankton too, but can enough be collected to feed the colony?
It was, but in hindsight it's easy to say they made a massive mistake not taking it.
Though considering it's a small landlocked country others are probable right they couldn't keep it.
Losing it in a war without any compensation would be the worst outcome, but anything else they'd come out ahead.
It's in Washington state, so I don't know how the Hoh Rainforest compares to those we're talking about, but llamas work there and apparently a wild herd exists.
What about in mountains, are European mountains harsh enough llamas would do better over mules? Alps?
Llamas can carry more 75-100 pounds versus 30 to 37 for a person.
Also people not working as pack animals can do other jobs.
Weasels or foxes for vermin control.
If they do prepare nesting sites for hawks for vermin control that could lead to falconry.
Otters to help with fishing.
Are they trying to improve nesting sites for hawks and owls?
Weasels would be a good choice for vermin control.
With the turn to farming does salmon still make up a large part of their lifestyle?
Why doesn't he see an issue?
It would seem advisable to send at least a token force to assert French control of the area as soon as Americans start arriving.
And any of the ancient ones they could have tried to coopt were religious based.
Could Pan Arabism try to form around one of the old caliphates without being super religious?
That was the original treaty, the second map is the POD treaty.
So if it does get ignored will it mean more Spanish/Portuguese wars because of trespassing?
OTL the Portuguese helped Ethiopian forces defeat the Adal Sultanate and their Ottoman allies in the 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga.
Portugal controlling Mumbai and giving it as a dowry to the English in 1661 opened the door for the British East India Company.
Starting in 1521 Portugal held Bahrain...