. It is critical to identify models of sustainable land management that can improve ecological function and socioeconomic outcomes for the Plains communities, all while increasing resilience to a rapidly changing climate.
With the near extinction of bison by colonialists in the late 1800s, though, and relegation to reservations, Native Americans were left without their primary cultural food source.
The Assessment emphasized that understanding the potential for future changes in the frequency and severity of weather events and their impacts will, ultimately, determine the sustainability of economies, cultures, ecosystems, health, and life in the region.found a link between the effects of climate change, the productivity of grasslands, and the proliferation of bison in Yellowstone National Park.
Even bison’s dung — which contains high levels of nitrogen, a vital nutrient for plant growth — fertilizes the soil as they graze. In fact, bison digestion recruits an entire microbial community to digest plant matter. The National Park Servicesbison pies “elixirs of nutrients for the prairie,” spreading seeds, fertilizing the soil, and attracting insects such as the dung beetle to the region. As many as 300 species of insects will live in one bison patty.
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