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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New England, in living memory, has gone from mainly farm fields to one gigantic dense forest. Is that natural? What were New England’s dominant herbivores? Would reintroducing them, or analogs, create savannah? Might that be economically advantageous, as well as ecologically?
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Replying to @Meaningness
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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