Did anyone notice the part of the Paul Brown video where he talked about how our native prairie lands were managed by the herds of roaming buffalo along with the other residential grazers/browsers that lived on smaller scales such as deer. The buffalo herds did not continually graze an area until it was depleted. The came through…..ate a little….trampled a lot….and moved on. The impact of this short term “mob grazing” by the buffalo was that they fed the soil carbon through the biomass that they trampled down.... along with converting another part of that biomass to nutrient filled, biologically active manure. The result of this process was a vibrant, flourishing grassland or prairie ecosystem which the other resident animals then utilized and benefited from. None of this requied Grazon, lime, P&K applications, nor weed control. This is the same natural system that can be replicated using cattle to imitate the impact of the buffalo…..that is if they are managed correctly.
