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Like many ecologists, every week I read announcements about a new \u201cgame changing\u201d technology that promises to turn our ecological crisis around. The game rarely changes. <\/p>\n\n

\"Knepp
Knepp wildland \u00a9 Charlie Burrell<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Governments and corporations cling to the belief that the world economy can grow forever, even as resources are depleted and carbon emissions keep increasing. Our population continues to expand, Earth\u2019s forests and biodiversity decline, aquifers drain, and soils erode, leaving scientists to routinely warn<\/a> of a catastrophic threat if we do not drastically change our fundamental social systems.<\/p>\n\n

What I rarely hear in popular environmental news are proposals for humanity to back off, to return regions to nature, to give up \u201cmanaging\u201d nature and allow evolution to work as it has for eons. So I was thrilled to meet Nancy Burrell this fall during the Extinction Rebellion protests in London. Nancy grew up watching an ecological miracle unfold, by giving nature a chance.<\/p>\n\n

She gave me a book<\/a>, \u201cWilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm,\u201d published last year by her mother, the author and farmer, Isabella Tree<\/a>. The book is the story of how Isabella and her husband, Charlie Burrell, let their 1,400 hectare farm at Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex return to the wild. The book recounts the natural restoration of diverse habitats, including novel habitats,  that, in turn, provide conditions for a revival of biodiversity. <\/p>\n\n

\"Isabella
Isabella Tree at the gate of Knepp wildland \u00a9 Charlie Burrell<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Isabella and Charlie had struggled for 17 years to make their conventional arable and dairy business profitable, but the heavy clay soils made it difficult. In the late 1990s, they invited arborist Ted Green, custodian of the ancient oaks in UK\u2019s Windsor Great Park, to examine a 500-year-old oak tree on their farm. <\/p>\n\n

What they learned from Green changed their perspective about the stewardship of land. He explained that their trees, on heavily worked land and depleted soils, had become stranded from their natural ecosystem allies. When Isabella and Charlie allowed land sections to go wild and restore soil mycorrhizae (fungi), for the benefit of oak trees, they began to learn lessons about ecology that could help humanity restore the health of the entire Earth. <\/p>\n\n

The wild mess<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

\"Autumn
Autumn at Knepp estate \u00a9 Charlie Burrell<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Symbiotic mycorrhizal relationships support over 90% of all terrestrial plants on Earth. However, fertilizers, pesticides, and mechanical plow blades diminish or destroy these natural soil mycorrhizae. In contrast, healthy tree-grass-flower-fungi symbiosis provides habitat for worms, beetles, and micro-organisms that create healthy soils. <\/p>\n\n

The human blind-spot about ecology is partially a result of our common language of commerce; based on nouns, on things. We label things as, \u201ctree,\u201d or \u201csoil,\u201d an \u201catmosphere,\u201d or a \u201ccrop,\u201d but none of these exist independently of the others.  Ecology, on the other hand, functions as a complexity of relationships, not isolated things.<\/p>\n\n

A healthy oak tree in an open space will support hundreds of lichen, fungi, and invertebrate species, which in turn supply ecological services to other species. The fungi help supply nutrients and act as an early warning system for the trees, stimulating defensive enzymes in the presence of harmful chemicals. The invertebrates help cycle nutrients through soil and provide food for birds, who will, in turn help certain trees and shrubs distribute seeds. <\/p>\n\n

Nancy and her parents began to watch and learn how a healthy ecosystem worked. Modern human science may not even know all of the species critical to our ecosystems, so the idea that we can engineer nature ourselves appears as human arrogance. Rewilding gives land back to the complex, diverse natural processes of evolution, and the results can be astounding. <\/p>\n\n

After meeting the ecologist Franz Vera \u2013 author of Grazing Ecology and Forest History<\/a> and director of the Oostvaardersplassen nature reserve in the Netherlands \u2013 Isabella and Charlie replaced their domesticated animals with free-roaming herds of Old English longhorn cattle, Tamworth pigs, Exmoor ponies, and red and fallow deer. <\/p>\n\n

\"Fallow
Fallow deer on Knepp estate \u00a9 Charlie Burrell<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Vera\u2019s work had challenged the conventional picture of Europe\u2019s early Holocene  vegetation as a closed canopy forest. Based on pollen analyses and flora ecology, Vera believes that herbivores played a significant role in creating an open wood-pasture landscape of grasslands, scrub, and solitary trees, with some closed regions of dense groves. <\/p>\n\n

Isabella and her husband discovered, for example, that as the pigs graze, rootle for rhizomes, and trample vegetation, they vitalize organic matter and biota that help create various soil varieties that provide diverse habitat for microorganisms, invertebrates, small mammals, and birds.<\/p>\n\n

Animal dung adds nutrients and insect habitats that accelerate soil restoration. When the entire system is organic, and when livestock numbers remain low, native flora germinate, thrive, and contribute to biodiversity. For example, at Tree and Burrell\u2019s Knepp farm, the activity of wild mammals gave rise to patches of sallow, attracting the rare Purple Emperor butterflies, who lay their eggs on sallow leaves. <\/p>\n\n

The important ecology lesson here is that animals not only live in a habitat, they create<\/em> habitats. By 2016 the family had documented 62 bee species, 30 wasp species, and 441 moth species on the Knepp estate, some extremely rare or previously undocumented in the UK.  The revival of diverse butterfly and bee species enhanced pollination for plants and provided insect prey for birds, amphibians, and other species. Isabella viewed the revived ecosystem as a wild \u201cmess,\u201d the antithesis of a managed farm.  <\/p>\n\n

\"Honey
Honey bee \u00a9 Charlie Burrell<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Soil is not dirt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

When animals have not been dosed with antibiotics, their manure provides habitat for microorganisms, fungi, and invertebrates. Knepp lands became a breeding ground for 19 earthworm species, who aerate, hydrate, rotavate, fertilize, and detoxify the soil. The family found, in a single cowpat, 23 species of dung beetle, one of which \u2013 the Violet Dor beetle (geotrupes mutator<\/em>) \u2013 had not been seen in Sussex for 50 years. They have now documented over 600 invertebrate species occupying the site at Knepp, supporting organic decomposition and circulating nutrients. <\/p>\n\n

In 2015, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported<\/a> that, every year, due to ploughing and intensive cropping, 25 to 40 billion tonnes of Earth\u2019s topsoil are lost to erosion. In 2014, the UK Farmers Weekly<\/a> predicted that depleted, eroded UK soils would only support about 100 future harvests. Letting land go wild, with grazing herbivores, can reverse this erosion and restore soil. <\/p>\n\n

All human civilization, even the most modern, industrialized cultures, depend on soil. Furthermore, as microbiologist Dr Elaine Ingham points out<\/a>, \u201cSoil is not dirt.\u201d Healthy, productive soils contain about 45% of what we call \u201cdirt,\u201d non-organic clay, silt, and sand, and about 50% air and water. The remaining, critical 5% of healthy soil is comprised of organic, decaying organisms, microbes, fungi, and bacteria.<\/p>\n\n

Soils compacted by heavy farm equipment, and depleted of soil biota by plows and pesticides, contain fewer microbes and few open pockets to hold air and water. In healthy soil, microbes create open pockets where air and water can move. Bacteria and fungi secrete thick compounds that bind soil particles together to create aggregates that help aerate and hydrate the soils. Some fungi stitch soils with thread-like hyphae, creating more pockets for water and air. This allows plant roots to penetrate deeper. Since different microbes and nutrients reside in different layers of healthy soil, this allows for healthier and more diverse flora. <\/p>\n\n

\"Seedling
Seedling in an organic field \u00a9 Greenpeace \/ Vivek M.<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Wild orchids appearing in some of the wild Knepp fields indicated that soil fungi had grown healthier and more diverse. All plants in the Orchidaceae family rely on a symbiotic relationship with mycorrhizae to obtain food and energy. Orchid seeds possess scarce energy reserves, so the plant gets most of its food from fungi rather than photosynthesis. Understanding ecology is appreciating how wild herbivores \u2013 via worms, beetles, and fungi \u2013 contribute to the flowering of an orchid. <\/p>\n\n

Restoring the world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Perhaps the most important concept of wilding is leaving nature alone to do its work, but this does not preclude intelligent human intervention to kick-start the process. <\/p>\n\n

By the 1930s, wolves had been eliminated from the Yellowstone Lake region of Wyoming. With the wolves gone, elk expanded and curtailed winter migrations. Large elk herds would browse on riparian willow saplings, reducing beaver colonies, who relied on willow to survive the winter. The loss of beaver reduced wetland habitats for fish and water-birds, and reduced shrub habitat for invertebrates and songbirds. The loss of wolves reduced scavenger species, such as ravens, magpies, coyotes, and grizzly bears. In 1995, when biologists reintroduced<\/a> the grey wolf, they witnessed a return of the beaver and a \u201ctrophic cascade\u201d of biodiversity. <\/p>\n\n

Certain microbes, bacteria, fungi, and plants can metabolize pollutants in soil, which led biologist, Dr. John Todd, to treat domestic sewage and to clean up contaminated soil and water with natural, biological systems<\/a>.\u201cLandscape restoration starts with restoring ecological function,\u201d says John Liu, an American working with the Chinese government on ecological rehabilitation projects. <\/p>\n\n

According to David Montgomery, professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington and author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations<\/a>, \u201csocieties that don\u2019t take care of their soil don\u2019t last.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe soil is, quite literally, what grounds us,\u201d writes Isabella Tree. \u201cIt is the invisible foundation of all that we see emerging before our eyes; it is the great recycler, the connector, the key to life itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\n\n

Resources and links <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Isabella Tree, \u201cWilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm,\u201d Picador \/ Pan Macmillan<\/a><\/p>\n\n

\u201cWorld Scientists\u2019 Warning of a Climate Emergency,\u201d William J Ripple, et al.; BioScience<\/a>, November 5, 2019<\/p>\n\n

Franciscus Vera, \u201cGrazing Ecology and Forest History\u201d CABI<\/a> , 2000<\/p>\n\n

George Monbiot, \u201cFeral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding,\u201d review, Guardian<\/a>, 2013<\/p>\n\n

\u201cStatus of World\u2019s Soil resources,\u201d UN Food and Agriculture Organization<\/a>, 2015<\/p>\n\n

Philip Case, \u201cOnly 100 harvests left in UK farm soils, scientists warn,\u201d Farmers Weekly<\/a>, October 2014<\/p>\n\n

\u201cSustainability and Organic Livestock Modelling,\u201d Christian Schader, Adrian Muller and Nadia El-Hage Scialabba, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO<\/a>, April 2013<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThirty Years and Counting: Bioremediation in Its Prime?\u201d Bioscience<\/a>, March, 2005
<\/p>\n\n

Richard J. Sima, \u201cA Dirty Truth: Humans Began Accelerating Soil Erosion 4,000 Years Ago,\u201d Eos<\/a>, 10 December 2019
<\/p>\n\n

\u201cAssessing the resistance and bioremediation ability of selected bacterial and protozoan species to heavy metals,\u201d I. Kamika and M. Momba; BioMed Central<\/a>, Microbiology, Feb. 2013
<\/p>\n\n

Paul Stamets, \u201d Helping the Ecosystem through mushroom cultivation,\u201d Fungi Perfecti<\/a>, January 2000<\/p>\n\n

John Todd: Ecological Design<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n

John Lui, documentary: Green Gold<\/a><\/p>\n\n

\u201cSoil, not Dirt \u2013 Dr Elaine Ingham Talks Soil Microbiology,\u201d Permaculture Research Institute<\/a>, 2013<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem in Yellowstone,\u201d Yellowstone Park<\/a>, January 15, 2019 <\/p>\n

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