Posted on 11/09/2020 9:46:55 AM PST by re_tail20
Once upon a time, prairie was the primary ecosystem in Indiana, but in the last 200 years, almost all of it has been plowed under for agriculture.
Today, less than 1 percent of original, native prairie remains.
The Nature Conservancy has been working to convert 7000 acres of row-crop farmland back into diverse prairie for the last 20 years.
There are now over 750 species of plants and 250 species of butterflies on the newly restored chunk of prairie, called the Kankakee Sands Nature Preserve.
Most of the native plants and insects were able to find their way back “home” on their own. The bison needed a little assistance.
In October of 2016, the Nature Conservancy brought 23 bison onto the preserve from another preserve in South Dakota...
(Excerpt) Read more at returntonow.net ...
I agree.
Which is a joke considering how little sun much of NYS gets from the pervasive overcast from the Great lakes.
Not to mention the snow from lake effect.
There have been spells in winter that I remember, where we didn't see the sun for three straight weeks one Jan.
Lots of good solar is going to do.
These Green people are crazy.
For sure.
They won’t be happy until we look like Venezuela, with them at the top and living high on the hog, and the rest of us starving in the dark.
Lots more days of sun all year in Texas than WI-no doubt cheaper production. Stoves that use pellets are popular for heating homes and barns in rural areas of the state that don’t have a lot of trees where dead ones can be cut-to minimize forest fire danger, and for firewood-no trees to speak of on plains/prarie, desert-the pellets stoves are expensive to buy, but cheap to operate-not an option for me, however-I’m poor, and there are wooded areas all over here-so a normal woodstove works for me...
WI has large amounts of wood waste from the lumber and paper industry, not to mention corn stalks and junk trees that are usually used for toilet paper. If I recall early in the Obama administration a couple of coal plants being decommissioned were going to be switched to pellets as a trial, but the government changed their mind and they were denied the permits. The US ships pellets to Europe for converted coal plants. Environmentalists oppose it here, can’t cut down trees though I think there are plants operating.
Come over and I’ll give ya 15-20 full cords of oak and hickory.
Bison are bat hanging crazy critters. The problem with 300 million roaming bison, besides being disease carriers, is, trains were no match for a mile-wide swath of stampeding animals. Neither are homesteads. Which is why wholesale elimination of bison begin with when the train tracks were first laid.
And getting them back where you want them isn’t easy.
Also in the U.S. Senate...
Hopefully soon.
(As I look upon my .45/70 sitting next to me, the reason there were so few for a while...)
I will just guess what it says...:)
IF those bison were NOT tested for Brucellosis, you can kiss the cattle industry in Indiana goodbye... Bison are known carriers. NO cure for it.
If they can’t call them buffalo, they can go pack sand.
agree....
Well....cornstalks must only fart a little cuz I can’t hear them...but maybe they are the silent, deadly farts.
It’s all about money. They could probably get rid of 75% of these “caretakers”.
If I lived close, I’d take you up on that-we use hickory for smoking and barbecue, same as mesquite-both are more common a bit south of here-the woods here in the hills are mostly oak and juniper/cedar with elm and ash, etc...
Yeah, I didn’t figure you would be coming to MI to get wood.
I do have a bunch of wood that needs to be cut. I logged out 200 oak, hickory, and cherry a couple years ago and the tree tops need to be cut up and removed.
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