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Araucaria said:
Now that I think about it, there might be a good example of that in my own state of Florida. The logging industry favors replanting with slash pine (Pinus elliottii), which is predominant in the southern part of the state, over longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), which is more common in the northern parts of Florida, when they log out northern Florida forests. They do this because slash pine grows much faster than longleaf pine, and thus can be harvested more quickly. The problem is that slash pine has a higher resin content, so it burns faster. Logging operations like to do monoculture planting as well. This was a factor in the 1998 fires at Palm Coast, where many homes were lost. Of course the other factor was developing into forested areas, which naturally burn periodically. Developers are notorious about building in inappropriate places.

BTW, I've always wondered about all the "carbon neutral" plantings that were all the rage about ten-fifteen years ago, but you don't hear that much now. For example, you would hear that the Super Bowl was carbon neutral, meaning that an amount of trees that would remove carbon from the air in the same amount that would be generated by the fossil fuels burned to put on the event. Was anybody checking up on these, to see if 1. the trees were actually planted 2. the appropriate trees were chosen, and planted in appropriate locations, and 3. did the trees survive and grow into healthy specimens? I guess I'm a bit skeptical, given the human tendency to fudge on jobs, or lie outright about doing what was promised.
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Here’s a really good video from PBS about planting trees and carbon neutral forests.

 
Alistair said:
Here’s a really good video from PBS about planting trees and carbon neutral forests.

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Yeah...

Oregon State University's School of Forestry has been fighting against clear-cutting in those pine forests for thirty years! I've hiked in those forests, and sadly they never let them get dense enough to become serious carbon sinks. The really old parts of those forests have more ground cover under the canopy than this showed, but you have to let the trees grow for a century before that happens.

They have also been hit by the monoculture problem: in some areas of those pine forests, the mortality rate from a beetle infestation was 98-99%, and the only cheap way to get rid of the infestation is to cut down all the affected trees and burn them! There was a project to incorporate something to kill the beetles into a chipping process, but I don't know if anything ever came of it; the only way anyone found to kill the beetle eggs was to get the wood hot enough it was turning to charcoal -- which if it could be mixed with the soil would help the ecology there greatly, but the rainfall is so low that mechanical means would have to be used. If cattle could graze there that would grind much of the charcoal into the soil, but the edible vegetation is so sparse it would take five hundred acres to feed one cow!

The forest service tried to stay ahead of the beetle problem, cutting down swaths of forests in hopes the beetles wouldn't cross the gaps, but ultimately what it will take is replanting with all of the half-dozen native trees species, not just pine. While they have been gathering seeds from the few trees that resisted the beetles, there's no guarantee with a monoculture that the beetles won't come back.
 
“Blood is thicker than water”, when used in the context of family over friends, is in fact a wildly incorrect bastardisation. The true, full quote is “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” and refers to relationships forged by choice holding deeper meaning than those of mere biology.
 
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10% of US electricity is generated from old Russian nuclear warheads.

Airline Food is a programming language whose programs look like Jerry Seinfeld stand-up routines.

The battery in the new electric Hummer will weigh almost as much as an original Land Rover.

Until 1873, Japanese hours varied by season. There were six hours between sunrise and sunset, so a daylight hour in summer was 1/3rd longer than an hour in winter.

Clean rooms used to make semiconductors have to be 1,000x cleaner than a surgical operating theatre, because a single transistor is now much smaller than a virus.

We produce 200x more new computers per second than new human beings.

The entire global cosmetic Botox industry is supported by an annual production of just a few milligrams of botulism toxin. Pure toxin would cost ~$100 trillion per kilogram.

https://medium.com/fluxx-studio-notes/52-things-i-learned-in-2021-8481c4e0d409
 
In Barcelona, the authorities estimate there are around 700 colonies of feral cats: some 9,000 animals in total.
 
It's dismissable sensasionalistic "journalism" to say that deer kill humans. If some unqualified primate chooses to pilot him/herself at high speed into a stationary object, he or she is their own cause of death.
 
Yesterday, daylight started to get longer in BCN, gaining 2'', what locals call "flea leaps", until reaching one full hour around February 2, the end of Christmas according to the traditional Catholic calendar.

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Kyanimal said:
The deadliest animal (other than humans) in The U.S.A., that accounts for more human deaths than dogs, bears, sharks, and alligators, COMBINED, is the deer.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-deadliest-animals-in-the-us.html

(The deadliest animal on Earth is humans.)
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I know about that! The year I spent in Colorado I drove the road through the densest deer population on the continent four times a week. Over the course of that year I managed to not quite kill eight or nine deer (I was very good at predicting impact angles and sliding them off instead of smacking them)... then there was the day that four large bucks came down off a bank right in front of me on a corner -- my insurance agent was impressed that I managed to only hit one! (He was impressed by my sliding them off the side of my car, too; he said I had the lowest damage rate of any of his clients from hitting deer -- I usually just lost a mirror.)


I got a shiver from the shark on the list: when I was in Miami, one of the teens from the church and I had observed the waves coming in at the beach and figured out we could go from shallow spot to shallow spot and get a quarter mile off shore; we were over half way when a helicopter came flying by really low, with a loudspeaker announcing that a shark had been sighted close by! We were in knee deep water at the time so were *probably* safe but they waved us toward the shore. We plotted out a much longer route back, using the shallowest spots we could see... boy, was I glad for all the time my high school cross-country coach had us running in thigh-deep water!
We'd just gotten to the final shallow spot and were looking at having to actually swim thirty yards or so when the "all clear" horn blew. So we swam on our backs and flopped on the beach and pondered mortality. The kid told me the only thing that kept him going was the fact that I was a trained lifeguard -- otherwise he would have frozen from fright!


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A couple of months later a local teen lost his leg to a shark in Biscayne Bay; he was on a surf board paddling as quietly as he could trying to get back to shore after another warning. The shark rammed the board and almost knocked him off. Scary stuff.
 
Kulindahr said:
Do they keep the pigeons* under control?


* "Rats with wings"
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They're trying... striving... struggling... They imposed a ban on selling food in the Plaça Catalunya, the Trafalgar Square in BCN, but that doesn't prevent people from feeding anyway... probably the same sort of people who get pissed when they see how the authorities catch them in broad daylight, although the last episode of the sort to stir public (minor, but very loud) outcry concerns more wild boars, which are becoming an even bigger problem, since pigeons do not act like in Hitchcock's The Birds, while the pigs are getting punkier in their interaction with humans.
 
Kulindahr said:
I know about that! The year I spent in Colorado I drove the road through the densest deer population on the continent four times a week. Over the course of that year I managed to not quite kill eight or nine deer (I was very good at predicting impact angles and sliding them off instead of smacking them)... then there was the day that four large bucks came down off a bank right in front of me on a corner -- my insurance agent was impressed that I managed to only hit one! (He was impressed by my sliding them off the side of my car, too; he said I had the lowest damage rate of any of his clients from hitting deer -- I usually just lost a mirror.)


I got a shiver from the shark on the list: when I was in Miami, one of the teens from the church and I had observed the waves coming in at the beach and figured out we could go from shallow spot to shallow spot and get a quarter mile off shore; we were over half way when a helicopter came flying by really low, with a loudspeaker announcing that a shark had been sighted close by! We were in knee deep water at the time so were *probably* safe but they waved us toward the shore. We plotted out a much longer route back, using the shallowest spots we could see... boy, was I glad for all the time my high school cross-country coach had us running in thigh-deep water!
We'd just gotten to the final shallow spot and were looking at having to actually swim thirty yards or so when the "all clear" horn blew. So we swam on our backs and flopped on the beach and pondered mortality. The kid told me the only thing that kept him going was the fact that I was a trained lifeguard -- otherwise he would have frozen from fright!


870a89349c0c9e48206cce11c46c21ee.jpg


A couple of months later a local teen lost his leg to a shark in Biscayne Bay; he was on a surf board paddling as quietly as he could trying to get back to shore after another warning. The shark rammed the board and almost knocked him off. Scary stuff.
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"Road kill" is why the parks department in San Antonio, Texas developed the Robert L. B. Tobin Land Bridge to help keep wildlife from such collisions ..|

https://www.philhardbergerpark.org/land-bridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L.B._Tobin_Land_Bridge
 
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