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We couldn’t have seen this coming. Even one of the comments said it was just mulch.
We couldn’t have seen this coming. Even one of the comments said it was just mulch.
In Australia, the Rurals do it for free. You get paid in “camaraderie/comradery”.
Pinch Mini and Punch Bug. 2 for old school, one for new.
Neighbours injected “Spotto”, a punch for a yellow car.
And that was it. No rules about arguing or how hard you hit, no holds barred in the back seat.
And then to make it even more complex, the more diverse number of soil species that dwarfs the above ground species that are more fragile to hooves, fire, and UV that have been completely lost (not even studied before they were lost).
Humans could have kept track of a percentage of above ground species for introduction but the technology was barely there to even imagine what was lost in erosion and fire. And that likely underpins everything above ground.
It sucks but we keep on soldiering on.
This is old thinking at this point. There are other things affecting insect populations that a garden will not fix.
https://www.theverge.com/24137380/forest-restoration-costa-rica-guanacaste-conservation-tree
Still plant a garden though!
Avenza moment.
I’m just trying to work out where the Sunshine Coast one is. Most of the sites are down.
https://vimeo.com/836414800 - promotional video
I hope that people who say “plant locally-adapted” plants read this.
Still happening to this day but thanks to modern machinery only a few now fight it. The rest of us can ignore the battle to our detriment.
We had local farmer spray out 7km of riparian zone in 2 weeks for the cows. I’ve busted my butt for 2 years to plant up 3000 plants in 2400m2 (60m long) upstream from there. Nothing is fair.
It was a light joke but thank you. I thought it was obvious.
What makes you smarter than people studying these problems? A single example of a plant introduced in 1963?
You can’t just declare your opinion to be right. And you can’t ignore climate change to suit your argument. Nor can you deny that urban areas are very diverse in exotic tree species and that won’t change because you want it to. A single comment isn’t putting the genie back in the bottle, nor stopping climate change, or land degradation/clearing, or new pests and diseases.
Stay optimistic though.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.13041- Identifying and managing disturbance-stimulated flammability in woody ecosystems
This is where the quotes are from.
It turns some on its head so people will be very resistant to the change. The Rural Fire don’t appear to be interested, hazard reductions are key.
What I get from the study is that once you start, you can’t stop. Degraded systems (a big part of Aus) are also still at risk.
I’ve had a debate about this before. Yeah, there are modern videos with modern tools and well-explained techniques but nothing comes close to how simply and naturally they do it. Lost experience.
Lindenmayer et al. have published on this recently.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.13096 - What are the associations between thinning and fire severity?
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12766 - Does forest thinning reduce fire severity in Australian eucalypt forests?
And some choice quotes from other works:
Across all forests in the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in the Australian State of New South Wales, the probability of canopy scorch or crown burn remained high until 20 years post fire, but then declined to near zero by 30 years (Barker & Price, 2018).
The latter study also showed that the likelihood of canopy-damaging fires was related to the severity of the previous fire, so that one fire in disturbed forests set in motion an accelerating likelihood of future severe fires. Crown burn was most likely in dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia if they had been burned in the previous 5–15 years (Storey, Price & Tasker, 2016).
Whereas the forests and woodlands discussed above exhibited an initial brief reduction in flammability that preceded a more flammable regrowth period caused by the disturbance, this pattern was not detectable on an annual scale in an analysis of fire trends in Kakadu National Park in the Australian tropics. Flammability decreased linearly from the first year, reaching a near-zero likelihood of wildfire in all communities by 15 years (Gill et al., 2000).
Analysis of long-term fire records for Southwest Australian eucalypt forests has confirmed these expectations, demonstrating that long-unburnt forests are 7.4 times less likely to burn than forests still recovering from fire (Zylstra et al., 2022).
A mechanistic analysis of red tingle (Eucalyptus jacksonii) forest in south-western Australia, for example, demonstrated that mature forest facilitated more successful application of fire-suppression techniques than disturbed forests under the same weather conditions (Zylstra et al., 2023).
At a global scale, the predominance of young forest may represent a major challenge in fire management. For instance, McDowell et al. (2020) reported that the percentage of young forest stands (< 140 years old) has increased from 11.3% in 1900 to 33.6% in 2015 of the total forest area at the global scale.
A hedge post isn’t the same without the classic hedgelaying video:
Anyone else hesitant to upvote a story about dead animals? I don’t feel like I’m helping.
The calzones have betrayed me…
Is the sigh based on invasive species bring present from the early lovefest of carrying everything around and then the agricultural lovefest of intentionally moving everything around and you imagine it could happen again?
Or is the sigh that you wished climate change wasn’t real and you could go back to the good old days where indigenous species would just grow like they did for the previous 10,000 years?
The climate is changing. It sucks and these articles are the result of it. Rather than willy-nilly introducing species like yesteryear, this is going to be measured and studied to increase a functioning tree cover’s survival. I feel as though your sigh is a hindrance, rather than a help. What does the sigh mean?
Anyone got the cash (or the house) to install them? Want to spot me a fiver (x1000)?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/13/seaweed-cow-feed-trial-fails-methane-reduction-australia
One of the world’s longest commercial trials of a seaweed supplement that the global meat industry hopes could slash methane from beef cattle has recorded much lower reductions in the potent greenhouse gas than previous studies.