Great info. Thx Gotta burn. Town Folk need to understand that and adjust for short periods ~
@ahs-117610 жыл бұрын
great video! what are the copyrights on it? Could a Historical Society use this for educational purposes in an exhibit?
@themick73rocks11 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@Milotito3 жыл бұрын
bruh just 2 likes in 7 years?
@tgifford48 жыл бұрын
How did the grassland and bison survive before humans?
@22NORM18 жыл бұрын
+tgifford lightning
@nonyadamnbusiness98878 жыл бұрын
Before humans it was underneath a mile of ice.
@thomasclark73837 жыл бұрын
Without humans clearing large sections of land, building roads everywhere, and actively suppressing fires, lightning preceding thunderstorms would ignite dead material. Also, during severe droughts the plant material can become so dry that the sun's rays can ignite it. Native Americans also lit fires themselves for thousands of years because they realized its importance and they found that they could control these effects by controlling the fire. With the level of development that we have now, nature is at a major disadvantage. Even if a fire begins in one area due to lightning, it will reach a road and burn out much sooner than it naturally would, meaning most acreage is unburned, most of the time. We, as property owners, must manage our own mini prairies and be very hands on.
@ExploreSoilLife7 жыл бұрын
tgifford, likely far better than with humans in the mix to mess things up. Nature has a a remarkable way of establishing balance on her own.
@enderwhitekey72385 жыл бұрын
Far more herbivores. Also there were herbivores so large they could mechanically take out the trees. Look up Paul Martin's Twilight of the Mammoths.
@inesk.3803 жыл бұрын
The Native Americans have done it since ever!
@ks_hunter73272 жыл бұрын
Burning in the late summer early fall has proven to better at controlling weeds, brush, and it creates less smoke and keeps a better air quality.
@zaidamaganda Жыл бұрын
I thought if you burn in fall, you encourage cool weather grass, if you burn in spring, you encourage warm season grass.
@ServeGod338 жыл бұрын
Make bed, get dressed, brush teeth, brush hair
@enderwhitekey72385 жыл бұрын
I am not opposed to burning like this. Why not use holistic management, high intensity, short duration, long rest to biologically manage these prairies?
@TOMMYSURIA6 жыл бұрын
Controlled burning fools.
@tritchie62723 жыл бұрын
In some area's they have had success preserving by using cattle. But they keep the cattle moving . Some folks call it mob grazing.
@zaidamaganda Жыл бұрын
Mob grazing doesn't replace fire. Natural grassland ecosystems have both.
@johncooley815 жыл бұрын
Improved cow farts!
@ThePajamaSlime8 жыл бұрын
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@guloguloguy10 жыл бұрын
The damned Cattle ranching needs to be removed! = Replace cattle with Bison, Antelope, Elk/Deer, rabbits, etc., and Wolves, Mountain Lions, Bears, etc.
@justgonnastay9 жыл бұрын
In the first 15 seconds he tells you the key to the problem: "The bison roamed FREE..." Cattle, allowed to roam free like bison, won't really do any more damage than bison. Pen up a herd of buffalo, limit their grazing range by artificial means, and you will get the same destruction. It's the freedom to roam that is necessary to prevent the damage, and in our world of fences and boundaries, that is highly unlikely to happen. Sad but true.
@thomasclark73837 жыл бұрын
Truly responsible cattle rearing requires a lot of land per head. We, as a society value access to beef higher than we value the land the cattle are raised on...which is backwards and sad.
@ServeGod338 жыл бұрын
abc
@jbweld61935 жыл бұрын
Tall grass prairie is artificial landscape created by the native Americans. Naturally this would be Woodlands and prairie transitions.
@Jemalacane08 жыл бұрын
Forest>prairie. Prairie is a depressing and hideous landscape.
@thomasclark73837 жыл бұрын
There are not sufficient native species capable of maintaining a forest ecosystem of the same biodiversity as prairie ecosystems in the central US, where our tall, short, and mixed grass prairies reside. You are suggesting that we degrade our land further and produce less biodiversity (encouraging mass disease die offs) to forest the area...for what? YOUR aesthetic preferences? Perhaps, you could gain more appreciation my researching just how diverse our prairies are and visiting a few.
@Jemalacane05 жыл бұрын
@@thomasclark7383 Well gee, trees actually protect the prairie. They were planted en masse to act as wind breaks to help prevent the prairies top soil from taking flight during the dust bowl. Not to mention tree roots are great at holding soil as they are extensive. Trees are also mast producing as in the produce fruit and nuts. Oh, not, that can't benefit wildlife. Hardwood trees produce fall color and are the largest flowering plants on earth.
@jimkennedy8284 жыл бұрын
@@Jemalacane0 This is old, but the prairies were gone by then. It was farm land, land that had been stripped of the prairie, broke and planted with crops. The destruction began once the government incented people to destroy it.
@ericressel30153 жыл бұрын
I can't comprehend with how naïve and downright idiotic this comment is.