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

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Brian,

I quite agree. I believe the act of Human making Terra Preta began with human observation of how the natural world maintained itself.

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Hans<mailto:bhans at earthmimic.com> 
  To: Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 8:26 AM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Praire is natures way of making terra preta.


  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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