On some level it just makes it feel like it's a hopeless battle The Columbian exchange fundamentally altered the KIND OF DIRT we have in America, and native species have been slowly declining in favor of invasive replacements ever since It's irreversible
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You can't stop this particular part of the Holocene extinction at all To deworm the continent again would require another mass freezing or burning, which would just be making *everything* extinct and starting over
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The Ice Age left northern North America worm-free, and the native forests evolved completely differently as a result (with a thick layer of slow-decaying mulch on the floor rather than topsoil as we know it)
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I was just going to research this. I was wondering where the huge decline in invertebrates is actually located because here in NE Arkansas during the summer we are just crawling with invertebrates and it's one of the things that hasn't changed since I was a kid unlike the weather
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But, a lot of those invertebrates I was thinking of are the huge abundance of earthworms you will find under anything you leave on the ground or in any pile of leaves. If those aren't even supposed to be here that changes my perception.
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