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Environment & Energy

tabatha

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12. There is no way at all, ever, that the land can be returned to its original condition.

Reply to Meiko (Reply #9)

Sat May 26, 2012, 04:42 PM

May 2012

The soil is disturbed and will take a very long time to recover if at all.

In the meantime all of the invasive plants that proliferate in disturbed areas will take over - probably permanently.

99% of California grasslands are non-native, and they will never return to what they were - and this invasion occurred in areas that were not disturbed at all.

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