Last night on our evening walk, I was startled, because ahead of us was a white rabbit sitting upright in the lane. I took out my phone to take a photo. It didn't move so I am wondering if it was an old Easter decoration or something. I thought maybe it was frightened, so it's staying still, I better take it slow. We walked up to it little by little, so as not to frighten it.
Friends, I just spent the last 5 minutes walking up to a plastic bag of dog poop.
Friends, I just spent the last 5 minutes walking up to a plastic bag of dog poop.
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I was picking up some dog poo in the park today and thought to myself...
I really should get a dog…
I really should get a dog…
Someone saw a swan in distress, so called out the RSPSA, it turned out to be a carrier bag...
Perhaps you could collect them, and make Watership down II.
Perhaps you could collect them, and make Watership down II.
How about New Growth?
After Clear Cut, they will plant whole forests with clones and clones and clones. There might be 1000 trees with a million clones.
But in my college days, I spent a summer at Weyerhouser R&D. I learned how they'd send foresters and sharpshooters out to the forest and select the best specimens. The the sharpshooter would literally shoot down the top of the tree where the growth cells were concentrated. They'd bring that to the R&D center and clone them. The entire basement of the R&D building was filled with growing areas... the trees would start in pretri dishes and slowly be replanted as they got bigger. This was research back in '80. By now it has to be industrial.
Pretty neat stuff.
After Saint Helens blew up, they cleaned up the forests ( the fallen trees were used, not wasted ) and they replanted them. We drove though the area last July and it's really neat. They got signs telling you how "old" the forests are -mostly they tell you the year each area was planted. Pretty healthy looking, actually.
After Clear Cut, they will plant whole forests with clones and clones and clones. There might be 1000 trees with a million clones.
But in my college days, I spent a summer at Weyerhouser R&D. I learned how they'd send foresters and sharpshooters out to the forest and select the best specimens. The the sharpshooter would literally shoot down the top of the tree where the growth cells were concentrated. They'd bring that to the R&D center and clone them. The entire basement of the R&D building was filled with growing areas... the trees would start in pretri dishes and slowly be replanted as they got bigger. This was research back in '80. By now it has to be industrial.
Pretty neat stuff.
After Saint Helens blew up, they cleaned up the forests ( the fallen trees were used, not wasted ) and they replanted them. We drove though the area last July and it's really neat. They got signs telling you how "old" the forests are -mostly they tell you the year each area was planted. Pretty healthy looking, actually.
I'll bet you learned that in college, even if your major wasn't forestry.
I did, although clear cutting wasn't very common then.
Either way, it's always fun to be in the forest, especially when it's smokin' hot.
I suppose lumber sold in California needs to come with a warning about 2x4’s from cloned trees causing cancer and other reproductive harm.
Gents,
If you look at posts 6409 and 6411, you get an idea just what kind of ‘forestry’ I was referring to.
If you look at posts 6409 and 6411, you get an idea just what kind of ‘forestry’ I was referring to.
Yes, and British Columbia is home to the "Great Bear Rain Forest", and apparently, an unlimited supply of double entendres.
I grew up near there without really knowing that it was right under my nose.