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FE4.3 - A Tiny Wilderness

Future Ecologies

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Ecology

With cultivated animals, pastures don't turn into forests. Much of scotland lacks trees because of its long history of sheep herding. But how in the halls of academia, wild grazers had been set apart. If a domestic cow can create and preserve crossen, why not a wild cow or a wild horse? No, all the scientist says, why not? We had wild horses, we had european bison, we had, we had read deer. Despite acknowledging the historical presence of all these different grazers, ecology text books said that across all europe, humans were the only force keeping the climax forest at bay. That's the suggestion theory to which fr

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