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Biology Survey: ThunderClan Lake Territory

[There will be a map here eventually]

Putting this together because I need a reference for the most common plants and animals in an area. There will be one of these for each territory around the lake.

Like some of my other lists, these will evolve with time as I add foliage that can and should be here. I started with trees and large shrubs; I'll work down to bushes, flowers, and mosses as time goes on!

HISTORY OF THUNDERCLAN TERRITORY

Almost a hundred years ago, humans started destroying the ancestral home of the ancient "Lake Cats," and dug into the nearby slope for brownstone. The logging and quarrying caused such devastation that the Lake Cats started infighting, and fled.

What-is-now ThunderClan territory was the center of those operations.

The humans have gone, but scars remain. Their abandoned quarry is a deep gouge in the earth, and to the north, the dilapidated worker's quarters is rotting away. They cleared over half of the old-growth forest, and only recently has the territory started to truly recover.

Ecological Profile

The soil is generally well-drained and loamy. The nearby slope gave access to higher-altitude plants which do well on rocky soil; until SkyClan's return, where they were given the hill. It also has a very unique patch of old growth forest.

-Beech Patch Just north of ThunderClan camp, stretching to the west until it touches the "Abandoned Twolegplace." Planted by quarry workers; beech does not spread well without human intervention in this climate. The older trees here are 90-ish.

Tree species: Beech, understory is yew and holly, fruit trees (Apple, Plum, Cherry), a few examples of Horse Chestnut.

-Young Patch Directly west of ThunderClan Camp. This is the deforested area that was logged away... but is recovering now. Sparse in comparison to the Ancient Patch, thick in comparison to the trees in every other woodland around the lake. These are young trees; the "elder" oaks are only 60 (reminder; oaks can live to be 1,000).

Tree species: Silver birch, young oak and ash, fruit trees like plum and apple, hazel, elder, sycamore, holly bushes, occasional sloe (which enjoys sparse wood full sunlight), some elm, some hawthorn

-Ancient Patch To the south of the territory is an old-growth forest. It is only a small remnant of a woodland that used to stretch for miles and surround almost the entire Lake. Some trees here are coppiced-- intentionally cut in a way where they grow multiple trunks off the same root. By who?

Tree species: Primarily oak and ash, pockets of checker tree, understory is mostly hazel, serviceberry to the east, spindle grows on the edges, sparse holly bushes, occasional english elm, occasional hawthorn, occasional birch, occasional hornbeams.

-WindClan Strip Just beyond the Ancient Patch but right before the dry gorge, south of the last spindle trees, is open grassland. Field maples grow here and just beyond the gorge, unbothered by other trees. WindClan often becomes aggressive to any cat who steps out of the forest here.

Tree species: Famously only field maples, with the occasional sloe who doesn't read the room.

-Roadwork Pathways Where humans used to drag quarry waste and transport felled trees; slowly being reclaimed by nature, but currently works as sparse, full-sun woodland.

Tree species: Wayfairing tree, elm, sloe, hawthorn some isolated fruit trees, especially plum (from discarded seeds) and cherry (likes full sun).

The SkyClan Patch Far to the north of the territory. Mixed conifer woodland with many trees planted for future logging purposes, but since abandoned. ThunderClan and ShadowClan used to battle over this patch, but since SkyClan's arrival it's been more contested than ever. Humans occasionally come in and cut something down but there is no dedicated mill.

Tree species: Four conifers; Spruce, fir, cedar, and larch. Hardy trees like dogwood, both types of birch (downy/silver), yew, and buckthorn are nestled in. Oak, elder, and fruit trees are working on infiltrating but haven't gotten DEEP yet; just enough to be tantalizing to ThunderClan.

-Moonhill Slope The incline that leads up to the top of the cliff behind ThunderClan camp. Has a lot of high-altitude species that prefer rocky soil. Was uncontested ThunderClan territory before SkyClan arrived.

Tree species: Rowan, Scot's Pine, juniper, rock whitebeam, wych elm

-Wet Space Near the ShadowClan river, the islets, and the lakeshore. This soil has "poor drainage" and is somewhat boggy.

Tree species: Alder, downy birch, silver birch, bay willow, black poplar.

Poor Soils: Buckthorn, Dogwood, Downy Birch, Silver Birch

Last updated: 2/7/2023

Below the cut:

Further notes: Trivia, cool things I learned, and things I'm thinking about, in case you wanted to learn some more cool things

Species list: Common name + scientific name, just for reference.

Further Notes:

Where the hell am I going to put aspen trees?

Also want to add pears, they work just as well as apple trees but I want to get this finished rn, no more faffing around with more trees

On that note there's like a million subspecies of fruit trees but I'm just going to note them as one recognizable species.

a tree is just a tall bush, so I just tossed holly and juniper in here

Yew is apparently really hardy and does well with low sunlight. Huh. Who knew?

I did not know that birch was such a champion. Birch will see a speck of dirt and say "is anyone gonna grow in this?" and not even wait.

Downy birch seems to like it wetter than silver birch but they're both unstoppable. Top tier trees.

Sitka spruces are AWFUL in this part of England, they're THE commercial wood tree and they practically SWALLOW up land around them by blocking out sunlight. So they're planted everywhere but are also ecological bastards.

When I get around to WindClan I will have to mention that heathland is very rarely totally uncultivated because if it's not managed it turns into woodland. Ecology is the science of connection, really

Black poplar and rock whitebeam are SUPER endangered. I actually would like to do some sort of 'feature' on those two specifically to bring attention to that...

There are actually several types of oak trees. At some point I will go back and specify which ones grow where; but the majority of these are English Oaks so I just used those to get this done.

Between two common names, I will always pick the one that works better as a prefix. Sloe, for example, is more often called Blackthorn.

There are two types of buckthorn with very different environments and uses. I don't like this. I've left Alder Buckthorn out until I can decide what to do about that; I only described Purging Buckthorn

Species list:

Common name I use for this project + scientific name + quick notes

Trees

Alder (Alnus glutinosa)

Apple (Malus domestica or Malus sylvestris)

Ash (Fraxinus excelsior)

Beech (Fagus sylvatica)

Birch, Downy (Betula pubescens)

Birch, Silver (Betula pendula)

Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) = laxative

Cedar (Cedrus libani)

Checker Tree (Sorbus torminalis)

Cherry (Prunus avium)

Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea)

Elder (Sambucus nigra)

Elm (Ulmus procera)

Elm, Wych (Ulmus glabra)

Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)

Field Maple (Acer campestre) = Contested with WindClan

Hazel (Corylus avellana)

Holly (Ilex aquifolium)

Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)

Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)

Juniper (Juniperus communis)

Oak (Quercus robur)

Plum (Prunus domestica)

Poplar, black (Populus nigra betulifolia)

Rock Whitebeam (Sorbus rupicola)

Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)

Scotch Pine (Pinus sylvestris)

Serviceberry (Sorbus torminalis)

Sloe (Prunus spinosa) = Also called Blackthorn; will get parable.

Spindle (Euonymus europaeus)

Spruce (Picea sitchensis)

Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)

Wayfaring tree (Viburnum lantana)

Willow, Bay (Salix pentandra)

Yew (Taxus baccata)

[noodles-and-tea]

Our hextech dream….

[xxacidnekoxx]

✨✨me and my friends watch that singing alien!👽✨✨

[onefey]

you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

[chez-cinnamon]

What if Pomni seeks out comfort from Kinger bc of the last episode?? Finale !!

It is DONE !!

Everyone is so fun to draw I cannot.......... /pos

[lokh]

DO YOU SEE MY VISION... DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY COULD BECOME

[dionysism]

"odysseus should visit diomedes after the events of the odyssey" "odysseus should go see menelaus" personally if i was odysseus im not going fucking no where ever again 😭😭 THEY can come to ithaca. i've been traveling long enough

[hansoeii]

this one's for you, edwin paine

[daydreamerwonderkid]

The amount of anime screenshots I stared at for this one a;dslkfsa;lk

Obligatory click for better quality.

Many thanks to @ashoss for helping me keep my sanity while I was working on this one. Couldn't have done it without them!

Meme reference and clean versions under cut

If you haven't seen The Good Place yet, you definitely should.

I just wanna show this panel off. I put WAY too much effort in it, but I don't regret it :3c

[vulpinesaint]

pspspspsps poetry mutuals come here... new quiz... making you the patron saint of something...

[mambodork]

All the budget went into making the snails

[ruushes]

companions re-classed part 3 - shadowheart 🌌🌚🌝

*shadowdancer isn't a 5e rogue subclass, it's a 3.5e rogue-based prestige class, but it suits her so well and when i played 3.5e as a kid i thought it was the coolest thing ever lol so i wanted to use it

karlach 🔥 wyll ⚔️

[candycatfalls]

wasted devotion

[heart-locket-musicboxless]

•. A visit in a dream .•

[bixels]

Félicie (Fluttershy) peeved expressions.

References from S6E11, a.k.a. the funniest episode in the series.