The mammoth Steppe and the boreal forest

This is major confirmation of a core conjecture of mine that the Boreal forest can be turned into a working grassland through the managed application of grazing animals..  Under the mammoth biome, it was already a solid grassland biome.

Recall those Swiss mountain pastures.

we may never get the extinct biome back, but close enough is good enough.  By the way, those mammoths would also starve in a boreal forest and it is clear that a process of winter forest grooming and pine cone harvesting can be added to warm season grazing to induce ample grassland habitat.

Globally we have 1.3 to 1.4 billion acres as the largest singe biome on earth.  all this can ultimately support around 500, 000, 000 cow equivalent which naturally supoorts as many human families.  or prospectively as many as a human population of 2,000,000,000 just by itself.  Throw in full on salmon production in Canada and we literally support billions more.

Put another way, it is plausible that Canada all by itself can likely sustain a population in excess of 3,000,000,000.  It would take decades to get there but it is not unreasonable.

The mammoth Steppe and the boreal forest.

idth="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7BeB_8Z1P28" title="Grass Could Save The Arctic" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Jb-Q7O5nk&t=712s&pp=ygUObWFtbW90aCBTdGVwcGU%3D

In this video, we dive deep into the forgotten story of the mammoth steppe, one of the largest and most productive ecosystem the Earth has ever seen. Once home to woolly mammoths, giant bison, ancient horses and cave lions, this vast grassland stretched across the Iberian Peninsula across Eurasia and into North America... until it collapsed. We explore the debate between the climate vs. hunting hypothesis in relationship to megafauna extinction. How human overhunting of megafauna may have triggered an ancient ecological collapse. The vital role megafauna played in maintaining ecosystem health How their disappearance broke natural processes we still depend on. What Pleistocene Park in Siberia is doing to bring it all back — and how it could help fight climate change.

<iframe width="1351" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y1Jb-Q7O5nk" title="The Mammoth Steppe: Lessons For Ecological Regeneration" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>