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[janglur]

So, I embarked on a map with no sand.  No sand layer and no visible sand at all, I am POSITIVE of it.  It also had quite a lot of grass.  It was a trio of savage grasslands, good grasslands, and pretty normal mountains.

After some time of grazing, I noticed that the grasslands in the pasture were running out of grass, and it wasn't growing back.  Then, I began seeing patches of yellow sand appear, and not just in the pasture!  But also placed i'd dug out silty clay loam earlier-  it's become sand now!  Around this time, buzzards began appearing for the first time.  The oddities of sand and vulture began in the middle of the 5th year.

Is this a new feature or a wierd bug?

[IT 000]

I've encountered this same soil change. On a mountain, I deleted a few slopes on a grass covered mountain and lo and behold, clay gold mine.

[Poindexterity]

this can happen without grazing as well.
just from my dwarves walking back and forth from the cart to the fort entrance, i've seen them turn grass into sand.

[Max White]

So that lush forest you embarked in could soon become a desert if you hack at enough trees and keep enough animals. Likewise, though irrigation it might be possible to turn badlands into woodlands. I'm not sure, who knows.

I should test to see if adding [EVIL] to your dwarfs, or have them use evil animals, turns the biome evil. Good too, if there is time.