permaculture

[Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

At 09:10 AM 10/7/02 -0500, you wrote:
> So as a Pc designer I'm ready to drop the term "restoration" and get on with
> designing ecosystems that serve not only biodiversity and our aesthetic
> sense of what "should" be there, but also help reverse destructive climactic
> and desertification trends.  What I sense needs to be emphasized is working
> with the most degraded lands first - rather than knocking back woodlands in
> order to install grasslands,

Let's just not fall into a false dichotomy on this issue.  It's a big world 
with room for both of these valuable land uses.


Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM