Subject: Re: [permaculture] Lions and elephants on the Great Plains?
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:00:18 -0400
Ben Martin Horst wrote:
Buffalo Commons first; playing with elephants can and should wait.
That's great! Buffaalo Commons could become a new code word for the
revitalization of Rural America and, of course, of suburban, wild and
urban areas indirectly impacted by such an effort.
The concept of various species naturally causing holes in ecosystems is
interesting. On a scale more manageable and less invasive than with
herds of sabre-toothed tigers and mastodons, tolerance for and possibly
encouraging this to happen within ecosystems, holes fillable by natural
selection and succession, or by Man, might be a good thing as increased
diversity and randomness might eventually result, as if they were giant
edge zones, though not necessarily readily apparent as such.