@okaton_farm@rich_sylva@jim_strain I definitely agree. When I say human intervention I include the natives in that statement. Like I said how far back do we want to look and how far back can we actually look anyways?
@okaton_farm@rich_sylva@jim_strain Interesting. I’m always curious to know how far back people want to take their observations chronologically because at what point in history were the massive grazing herds disrupted enough to start changing the landscape
@okaton_farm@rich_sylva@jim_strain I still think the results of the test will be good and mean something to somebody. It’s just not likely to find any range that looks like it would’ve before human intervention. Because how many different definitions of “native range” is there?
@okaton_farm@rich_sylva@jim_strain Your results will be interesting to see but if it has had cattle ran on it for a significant amount of time chances are that any true native species are extremely suppressed. Same goes for if it has sat ungrazed for a long time as well.
@Nebraskero Ah. I figured a lot of the books that I could’ve suggested you would’ve already read so it doesn’t surprise me that you have already read that one!!
1971. You likely know this as the year Nixon cut the last of the Gold Standard
But what if I told you that another decision Nixon made that year was JUST AS important, and it shaped the food system for decades to come.
This is the story of Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz🧵
@GarthGatson For the Love of Land Jim Howell. Dirt the erosion of civilization David Montgomery. The Unsettling of America Wendell Berry. The Manual of Stockmanship Steve Cote. The to be read list piles up faster than reading can occur. These four are definitely worth the read