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Ted Turner owns 1.92M acres of land in the US.
by chasebank 6y ago
Ted Turner owns 1.92M acres of land in the US.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoMost of it is grazing land and ranch land. Farmland is rich fertile land with water resources and water rights.
- dathinab 6y agoNo farm land was rich fertile land at some point but due to non-sustainable agriculture a lot of this land is no longer qualified to be called "rich fertile", maybe it still "fertile" or "somewhat fertile" but that's it.
- thehappypm 6y agoThat's a hefty claim. Got a source?
- pietrovismara 6y agoJust duckduckgo land desertification.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoThanks for mentioning desertification. This is a very important and crucial problem..and one with no easy answers.
- qchris 6y agoMaybe not perfect answers, but letting beavers do their thing is somewhat easy and can lead to shockingly large amounts of water being conserved even in regions experiencing desertification[1][2]. The author of the linked article wrote a book about it, which is pretty fascinating, but there's also been studies in places like Colorado that view it as important enough that I believe it's now part of the state plan for water management. [1] https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.15/wildlife-how-beavers-make-the-desert-bloom https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.15/wildlife-how-beavers-make-t... [2] https://www.npr.org/2018/06/24/620402681/the-bountiful-benefits-of-bringing-back-the-beavers https://www.npr.org/2018/06/24/620402681/the-bountiful-benef...
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoI didn’t understand the comment. Can you rephrase it please?
- kickout 6y agoHe/She is claiming classifying farmland as 'fertile' is improper due to the depletion of the natural fertility of soil from intensive farming practices commonly employed in the US today.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoAhh. Got it. There is some truth to it as Ag is net net extractive. Land has to be rotated for fertility and even then it takes decades and decades to build an inch of top soil. At our current global population , we are treading on thin ice..or rather upon eroding top soil. Sad truth.
- pietrovismara 6y agoI think they missed a comma after the initial "No".
- dathinab 6y agoI did. I also should stop starting sentences with "No,". The meaning, which I mean to convey with it and what I do convey with it differ. At least wrt. politeness ;-)