Historically Bison have played an essential roll in contributing to plant diversity across the continent. The texture of their jungly, chocolate coats are magnets for small seeds, pods, and grains. As the herds graze, a variety of seeds become implanted on the bisons gnarly coats. These seeds ride the native ruminants bareback from one grazing site to the next. They fall off the bison in random fields into the divots created by the bison’s spade-shaped hoofs. Planting the migrant seeds, each bison delivers 40lbs of composted grasses, weeds, and native plants in the form of organic waste in the fields every day. This waste acts as a mulch protecting the soil, building soil health, and new life. A life that sprouts leaves and roots that takes in more carbon than the bison create. This is just one of the ways bison and other ruminants help in reversing global warming (when allowed as nature intended). #environmentalart #bioart #bison #ruminants #globalwarming #seeds #carbonsequestering @roamranch #texasart #womanartist #regenerativeart #soilhealth #healthysoil #microflora #connectedtothesoil #environment #soilscience #healthybacteria #humanelyraised #blowingthewhistleonindustrialagriculture #regenerativeart #bioart #soil #sculpture
Seeds getting caught in bison coat
Gnarly bison matted with organic matter
Spade shaped bison hoof
Double pronged and concave
Fresh organic bison waste also known as bison chips. The chips are composted grasses, weeds and plants the bus on forage on.
Bison chips- stepped on and worked into the soill by bison herds hooves.
New life is starting to grow in the once overgrazed and nutrient-depleted field.
In addition to creating diversity in plant life the bison chips give nourishment to a a plethora of lifeforms in the soil.