The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Yes, I'd say it sounds like rewilding is the best option there.

That won't happen. Oil and gas companies are operating on it.

So farmers can work around oil companies but.... Whatever wildlife looks like there can't?
(serious question.)

[Tamas]

Regarding all the Chinese name jokes you guys were making the other day, be glad you are not Finnish beauty queens. 

https://yle.fi/a/74-20199196

[Jacob]

IMO there is a significant difference between making puns based in Chinese dynasties and making slanteye gestures like that.

But if society has moved to such a degree that they are seen as equivalent in the general consensus, then I will resign from all my beauty pageant titles

[DGuller]

Regarding all the Chinese name jokes you guys were making the other day, be glad you are not Finnish beauty queens. 

https://yle.fi/a/74-20199196

I'd still prefer to be a beauty queen, even a Finnish one.

[Valmy]

Yes, I'd say it sounds like rewilding is the best option there.

That won't happen. Oil and gas companies are operating on it.

So farmers can work around oil companies but.... Whatever wildlife looks like there can't?
(serious question.)

If people are walking around and using the land what would rewilding even mean? Besides how would I even do that? It would probably involve careful stewardship and expertise. Why do you think that is a sensible option?

[HVC]

Yes, I'd say it sounds like rewilding is the best option there.

That won't happen. Oil and gas companies are operating on it.

So farmers can work around oil companies but.... Whatever wildlife looks like there can't?
(serious question.)

If people are walking around and using the land what would rewilding even mean? Besides how would I even do that? It would probably involve careful stewardship and expertise. Why do you think that is a sensible option?

true, rewilding a farm field is actually a lot of maintenance. We've modified the  surrounding land so much that a little island of wild doesn't work on its own, unlike many imagine. You have to mow/hay the field or else weeds and grasses take over and smoother out the flowering plants. And you have to remove the cuttings (low quality hay in effect, that no one wants) or else you over fertilize the feild and promote the growth of those fast growing grasses. You can't just leave the feild fallow.