Savanna Blog
History of Herbivory; Jurassic Sauropods
Just like meeting your friend's parents helps you understand that friend, Sauropod dinosaurs can help us understand us to understand our own herbivore-maintained-ecosystems. But before we get into that I must reluctantly do the almanac section, where I tell you what happened here on the ranch, even though it's been pointed out that there were […]
History of Herbivory Part II: The Jurassic
Savannas are central to the Bentgrass Blog so you might suspect that this history of herbivory is going to be about savannas. I’m not going to say one way or the other on that count. What I will tell you is that in this next section we are going to investigate the Jurassic through the […]
History of Herbivory Part I: Before Herbivory
If you are so close to something that you can’t see the edges than you are going to miss something important. For this reason, we are going to start our deep dive into the history of herbivory by looking at the portion of the earth’s history before there were herbivores. First, we need to look […]
Organics, Carbon, and Priviledge
Noah and Nate are going cross-eyed at Abel’s Dinosaur lessons. #tasteofmyownmedicine I saw an article on my facebook feed about a study proclaiming that organic is worse for the climate than conventional, since organic producers are less productive so that is more carbon per bushel produced. Not unrelated I saw a post the same day, […]
Psychology and Global Warming
There’s one spot on one of our ranches where I always freeze up like a deer in the headlights. You see, a few years ago there was this one time where I had 200 head that ran down a hill and I had put a polywire at that spot. They didn’t stop, they bowled right […]
Respectful Discourse is More Important Than Global Warming
The following is a comment from someone I will call Jacob to last weeks blog post. Following that, my response to the comment. "As much as I would like to share his optimism, I believe this quote is utter nonsense and I would back up my more pessimistic perspective (provided we stick to the head […]