[Terrapreta] Praire is natures way of making terra preta.

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

Brian,

I like it...prairies and the phoenix of fire...

In classical literature, the burning phoenix is the symbol of  
renewal, of regeneration.   Fire is nature's simplest and most final  
method of making way for the new, for breaking down all those complex  
organic compounds to their basic constituent minerals and gases and  
starting afresh.  And ironically, through that very process of  
destruction, it creates the char that enables it to expand the  
dynamics of the biosphere a little deeper into the earth's crust.

Gerrit

On 1-Sep-07, at 9:26 AM, Brian Hans wrote:

> I have been musing about this statement for a while now. As far as  
> I know, Ive coined it.
>
> I think the hypothesis speaks for itself. After doing native  
> restorations, mostly prairies for over 10 years, bio-char in small  
> dose y/y seems quite likely to aid in the production of the  
> luscious prairie soils 6ft+ deep. Infact, the prairie ecosystem is  
> literally addicted to fire so bio-char is inevitable. I am going to  
> bring this topic up to some of my prairie academics this fall but I  
> was curious as to what the group thought?
>
> Brian Hans
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