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

[Michael Bailes]

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From: Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
Date: 02-Sep-2007 00:36
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Praire is natures way of making terra preta.
To: bhans at earthmimic.com

If your grass lands are anything like ours, wildfire would give you more ash
than charcoal

Aboriginals used "cold fire" burning on still, damp, winter days. This would
give more charcoal you would think. But Australian soils still have very low
levels of charcoal

On 01/09/07, Brian Hans <bhans at earthmimic.com> wrote:
>
>
> . 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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