Just caught up with the thread.
Dr. Naos is a douche who could fix his perception with very few words. Naos, you should add a PHD of douche tomfoolery to your resume. You certainly have learned how to talk down to people. The ****ty thing is though, you have a point on a lot of things you talk about, and that point would be well taken by most on this board if you were not such an insufferable stinkface.
Hantlers, you may not know about the importance and fragile nature of cryptobiotic soil, as it is a biologic community that I am pretty sure is unique to climates like the American Southwest. Anyway, if you so much as step on it, it could take up to thousands of years to regrow into what it was. The structure of the soil is such that it can handle the huge rainstorms that the desert receives on occasion, but it still looks like sand or crappy desert soil. But you already know about desertification and all that crap anyways, as grazing and especially overgrazing is a big problem anywhere in the world.