[Carry_Okie]

Your activities also produce a more productive soil, particularly if the amount of light and disturbance permits the periodic introduction and maintenance of perennial grasses and forbs. Without periodic disturbance, those forb seeds can lose viability and therewith locally adapted alleles are then lost, a big problem in our area.

Alienation of people from wildlife and land management in order to "protect Nature" has to be one of the most destructive urban myths in history. It is an idea destined to imprison the people from lands no longer capable of supporting them, and at the mercy of a corporate fascist umbilical system that threatens their existence, never mind their freedom. Worse, it deprives the land of the people who know how to care for it.

Believe it or not, but my recent translation work in Genesis 4 indicates that this is precisely the original teaching of the Cain and Abel parable. Instead of a murder story, Abel as a people is "killed" one at a time, more likely by assimilation than by violence. The result is that the land around Cain's farm goes bad, and takes Cain soil down with it. Once that soil loses viability, Cain as agro-urban Settler (which is what his name means) can no longer stay, a fugitive and a wanderer he shall be. Compared to the nomad, it is the farmer who is ephemeral. It's taken me over a year to untangle it, but the findings have been fascinating, and might even have been prompted by the beginnings of desertification of the Near East some 6-8,000 years ago.

[RedMonqey]

Your activities also produce a more productive soil, particularly if the amount of light and disturbance permits the periodic introduction and maintenance of perennial grasses and forbs

I don't know the technical aspects of this or why I just know this is the way we have been managing our land and woods for over 170 years and it works well.

As for the Genesis interpretation I think it is plausible. Although I'm no theologian, your unique translation could have merit. The Bible is full of allegories that teach important lessons and morals and the Cain and Abel certainly is open to interpretation