Buffalo grazing restored 95 percent of native grasses on Cheyenne River

Evidence

Dubray talks about the transition on Cheyenne River. “The cattle industry has been on our land for approximately 130 years, and they totally ruined our grasses with exotic grasses. Today, we have the buffalo in those pastures [and have] recovered almost 95 percent of the original Native grasses.” — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 806

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete land-healing case that bridges Eco-Justice (restoration) and land-use history; builds on ch19’s failing monoculture claim. — connects to: Restoring a buffalo commons would save the federal government money — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 784; Grass grows faster when grazed, a mutualism with the grazers — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 576

Broader Connections

• Grass grows faster when grazed, a mutualism with the grazers #corroborates (0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 576