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slightly OT but interesting
Just listened to Zoom presentation of Forestry expert (PhD Yale School of Forestry) re forest management in Maine: "overbowsing by deer is an epidemic doing more damage to our forests than climate change will."
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Collectively, humans are idiots. The proof is in the history.
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Fear is a powerful motivator, particularly when people have a firearm: shoot first and ask questions later.
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https://www.outsideonline.com/242381...hat_you_missed
On a related note: the founder of Patagonia weighs in on how ranching and dairy interests are affecting Point Reyes National Park. It’s really becoming abundantly clear that one of the best things you can do for the environment is eat less beef. It’s really hard for me to get there, though. Sweets and booze are no problem. But carne asada is hard to pass up. |
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That said, I love me a steak. I'm not much of a burger guy. If you're going to eat beef: 1. Limit or cut back your consumption 2. Buy cuts that you won't waste 3. Buy meat from sustainable growers. It's really that simple. |
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give me ribeye or give me death
theres cattle milling and then theres cattle ranching - buy responsibly and theres NOTHING wrong with eating all the red meat you want (personal health aside) |
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and if anyone in the PNW wants a source o local, sustainably raised, grass fed beef, i know a guy based in longview washington. good prices on bulk cuts of great meat
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https://wildideabuffalo.com/ Dan didn't start out trying to raise buffalo or sell meat. He started out trying to regenerate the prairie. Well, a small part of the prairie. Rather unexpectedly, buffalo, with their sharp hooves, turned out to be great for the local/natural/indigenous grasses, not to mention the fowl that make their nests in the ground (not a whole lot of trees in that area). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9wfyLPDIF8
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I remember following this thread back in the spring…and it is related despite being Idaho and Utah.
It is a neat story that I will share with my students tomorrow. “Pando (Latin for "I spread") is actually 47,000 genetically identical stems that arise from an interconnected root network. This single genetic individual weighs around 6 million tonnes. By mass, it is the largest single organism on Earth.” Think about that…6 million tonnes of living entity. 🤯 https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/world...scn/index.html |
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Excellent op-ed in the Times:
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“A group of 21 U.S. senators led by Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, and Gary Peters, Democrat of Michigan, recently wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging an emergency relisting of the wolf on the federal threatened and endangered species list. Mr. Booker said that the policies “in states like Idaho and Montana, if continued unabated, will result in the deaths of hundreds of gray wolves and pose a significant risk to the species’ survival.” |
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