Personally protecting a piece of prairie

Though trees are often portrayed as the carbon-sequestering heroes of our climate-changed era, woodlands of oily, highly flammable cedars increase the chances of massive, unintentional fires fed by tall, dense biomass whose smoke actually increases atmospheric carbon. They destroy the superior carbon sink of grasslands, whose considerable underground biomass holds their carbon regardless of fire above ground. They even contribute to global warming by darkening the color of a landscape that, as grassland, reflects away sunlight. [...]

WOODY ENCROACHMENT into the American prairie is a product of modern realities, yes, but those realities were designed to the tastes of European colonizers who knew the ways of—and found comfort in—forests.
Their perspective is evident in our cultural notion that planting a tree is, always and without question, a very good thing. [...]

Unchecked exaltation of trees is a lazy environmentalism that not only actively threatens grasslands by planting trees where they harm native habitat but also blinds us to the lack of policy efforts—surely no accident—to protect landscapes even more vulnerable than woodlands to agriculture and development. [...]

we now have another NRCS contract compensating us with a small payment per acre for timber stand improvement, removing troublesome species such as hackberry and—yep—eastern red cedar so that native woods on this land will thrive. We don’t hate trees, see: we just resist the myth that any tree is good anywhere. [...]

we’ll maintain the restored prairie through fire, haying, and maybe someday a herd of goats.

Really interesting look into ecosystem restoration in an environment that's rather foreign to me. (But shouldn't be now I remember growing up near places with frequent little fires to kill off the small trees of the heathland. I guess that shows how strongly more trees=better is ingrained.)

Nice article, enjoyable and I learned a lot...

I did check out the rest of the blog and... Well... It serves as an illustration that people should usually stick to blogging about their area of expertise. It's pretty conspiracy theory territory...
Virus do exist and chemtrail don't.
And writing a whole article about this based on a conversation with a chatbot (asking it to defend the virologist point of view) is the most strawmanny thing I've ever seen or even heard of.

All in all, I'm happy tildes enabled me to read this article cause I definitly wouldn't have found it past the rest of the blog.

Wow, these people are on a mission to destroy as many trees as they can to keep the prairie free of trees.