> much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass
I wonder how much about that could be changed with a large scale permaculture [0] approach?
There must be something useful able to grow there? From there you can maybe bootstrap a long-term ecological change of the region into something with lusher vegetation.
Not even that hard to do, basically add some swales on contour and some trees along those swales, then graze in between the rows of trees. This guy is doing it in Wisconsin: https://www.acresusa.com/restoration-agriculture
I wonder how much about that could be changed with a large scale permaculture [0] approach?
There must be something useful able to grow there? From there you can maybe bootstrap a long-term ecological change of the region into something with lusher vegetation.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture