The Off Topic Topic

[The Minsky Moment]

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

And I will stop drinking Tang.

[Josquius]

A tree or two in your yard does not a forest make your words were rewilding. Haphazardly planting some trees in a field is not making a forest, nor is it rewilding. The diversification won't be there for good habitat. Sure the deer will be happy for a while when the trees are saplings for the free food, and maybe mice will be there, but not much more.


Also, this is bring back flashbacks to grade 9 when my school board started enforcing "volunteering" to be able the graduate. I volunteered for a tree planting program that came to visit my school. They bused us up north for 2 weeks in the summer to plant the first stage of the forest (the pines I mentioned). We learned about the whole process. The area has to be managed for decades. This began my dislike of forced volunteering (and my disdain for sheilbh's youth "volunteering" position ). Not the trip itself, that was fun, the fact we had to volunteer to graduate. Hadn't thought about it in forever. It's been over 25 years, and they're probably just starting to thin out some spots now for second planting.

I think what you have in mind is environmental remediation. And that is a lot of work indeed. Rewilding is a bit different.

Yes. This stuff isn't black and white.
That does indeed sound quite hard core and way above what even proper official projects I know of locally engage in.


For me-it's more than just a few trees in my garden. But less about trying to do it perfectly and more about just getting trees out there.