[ SECRET POST #2527 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2527 ⌋

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Re: How was your day, F!S? :D

[(Anonymous)]

My interest is actually restoration ecology, but my departments (environmental science and natural resource ecology/management) are part of my school's school of agriculture. Where I live, something like 99.9 percent of the pre-1850 ecosystem (tallgrass prairie) has been wiped out, replaced by fields of corn and soybeans. (Genetically modified corn and soybeans, at that.) If we want the biotic community the land once supported to survive, we have to plant it ourselves. At the same time, there's a suite of ecosystem services (filtering nitrates from runoff, preventing erosion) that tracts of restored prairie on farm ground can perform for farmers.

I'm not sure about the higher education of the farmers whose interviews I'm now typing--quite a lot of farmers, in my state, have degrees or at least, have taken courses, from my school. But they absolutely have years--sometimes decades, even generations--worth of observation and experience of their land. (And lots of stories--oh yes!) Many of these people are far more proactive than the government's principal soil and water conservation agency, which doesn't seem to serve them very well.