Only 2 percent of California's native grasses remain intact. As was well-stated below by Jenny, "Perennial native bunch grasses can live for decades and grow roots 15 feet or more down into the soil, allowing water to percolate and helping to cycle nutrients. They... help reduce erosion, improve soils and sequester carbon." Native grasses & flora-at-large evolved here over millennia with great herds of grazing mammals. They can be brought back thru regenerative/holistic grazing management practices, i.e. the way nature did it, while saving on feed bills for ranchers & land managers. Daily Acts (dailyacts.org) offers ongoing holistic grazing workshops in Sonoma Co. at no cost to participants. Our mission is to transform overgrazed & eroded hillsides into water-infiltrating, carbon-sequestering, nutrient-dense places of diversity & natural beauty to support food/water security & mitigate climate change. Anyone interested in holding a workshop on site in exchange for a personalized management plan, please contact Terry: tcequine@earthlink. Lg or sm acreages apply.

Something like 96% of California native grasslands have been decimated (along with 98% of old growth redwoods, and 94% of wetlands). Perennial native bunch grasses can live for decades and grow roots 15 feet or more down into the soil, allowing water to percolate and helping to cycle nutrients. They can be grown to help reduce erosion, improve soils and sequester carbon. Research shows how native grasslands could be brought back to ranchlands to improve the health of the soil. So how about growing native bunch grasses where appropriate, as well as native trees.

Carbon farming is deeply useful: would recommend crossing over any initiative with John Wick and the Marin Carbon Project.

It seems that the very exciting SE Greenway project is in a holding pattern. Perhaps that corridor of land could be developed immediately for carbon farming purposes.

Carbon farming techniques would be great on school campuses as well: students could be involved in planting, composting, etc. Would be a great way to educate about carbon farming.