Extraordinary biodiversity results from “rewilding” an economically-marginal English farm.
Only recently understood: the key role of large herbivores in creating savannah (rather than continuous forest).

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5640191/How-letting-Mother-Nature-reclaim-prime-farmland-produced-breathtaking-results.html …
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There's a large hunting club in mid-NH with its own re-introduced population of elk and boar, and they still seem to be mostly forested: http://outsideinradio.org/shows/ep27 . It's a little hard to say given that they're maintaining the area and also feeding the animals over the winter.
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Quick look at wikipedia suggests elk and boars are largely woodland species, and not grazers. Bison might be the answer.
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buffalo. But they don’t fit neatly into the current mechanistic production model of using animals for only one purpose.
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I thought buffalo might be the answer! And, yes to your second sentence.
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possibly of interest https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/10/guarding-the-forests-2/ … I recall reading (but can't locate) some discussion of the pre-colonial ecology being essentially a human influenced "semi domesticated" old growth forest. indigenous peoples having shaped an arboreal ecology over thousands of years.
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Yes, interesting, thanks!
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don't have data to hand but from living here, I'd caution that "one giant dense forest" may not be as true as it might seem - the logging industry has a habit of understating how quickly it's been using up the resources
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