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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kyle78" data-source="post: 2644938" data-attributes="member: 27210">I suggest you read up on the ecology of the great plains, and what it was like before white settlers killed off the vast roaming herds of bison. Once they were removed, it started a break down of the Tall Grass Prairies entire ecosystem. Once white settlers started plowing up and planting food plants, we started off a chain event that lead to the Great Dust Bowl.  Literally a ocean of moisture was lost once settlers started plowing under the deep rooted native plants, and it still has not returned. The underground water basins of the entire great plains is slowly drying up. It won't be replaced in many life times using current water practices. Also your assuming that food stock and non native plants do a better job at storing Carbon. Your not realizing we harvest that carbon in form of food/meat and it re-enters the cycle. It's never stored away. You need to understand, we're not creating new carbon. we are releasing stored carbon from fossil fuels that was stored inert underground. I'm of the thought that mother nature does it best when it comes to plants and balancing out the planet. If we can decline our release of CO2 into the Atmosphere, the planet will rebalance it's self. But we have to keep from destroying the existing forests and polluting the oceans to let that happen.</blockquote>