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What herbivores are you going to deploy to allow the meadow to maintain itself? Going to fence them in or let them run wild in town? In 99%+ of east coast US e
by smallerfish 3y ago
What herbivores are you going to deploy to allow the meadow to maintain itself? Going to fence them in or let them run wild in town?
In 99%+ of east coast US environments, grassland will become forest naturally (over time), even with the deer population as it is.
- ghaff 3y agoI had big meadows in front and back of my house when I moved in 25 years ago. I let about the 50-100 feet out by the road naturalize over time; the rest is cut by a tractor about once a year. The section out by the road is forest, albeit immature, at this point. There's far more forest in New England than there was 150 years or so ago.
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoWhy not do controlled burns? That's historically how most grasslands and meadows that didn't support large grazing populations stayed that way.