#woodlot

[alcnfr]

For some reason, I am seeing more of the woodpile House Mice (Mus musculus) these days...

[slowlifewithminecraft]

大したことしない日記283　ペールオークの植林場 ペールオークの植林場をホリデー村に作ったよ。欲しい人は使ってね。木の種類が増えてうれしい。どんな建築作ろうかなぁ。

The Woodlot of Pale Oak Tree I built the woodlot of pale oak trees. You can use freely.

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[carbombrenee]

Autumn Splendour

[musicftmisfits]

November Round Up

In November we celebrated punching rock, hazy anthems, strong storytelling, punk rock, and soaring vocals. Find all our favourite releases of the month in our monthly Round Up!

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[kihaku-gato]

The internet / social media really is getting super exhausting and really is just making everyone more stressed and angrier and angrier huh

[glitchlight]

just to add onto the feeling goin round at the moment: i dont particularly care if you find love in a very special jesus, just for queers! made out of broken glass and deer skulls, angel corpses and sour candy! I think a measure of peace goes a long way, and if faith in any form grants that, I find good in it. but dont expect me to be impressed by the empty symbols of your moodboard theology.

[arbitrarygreay]

Fort Salem Witching Hour S3E4 makes a very good point that Sterling has been a part of Blanton Silver's staff for at least 14 years or more (since at least when Penelope was 4, and she has to be 18 or older to be conscripted). Possibly, he was hand-picked by Silver himself rather than simply assigned, which doesn't make any sense if Silver hated witches the entire time. While M apparently had a cover that could be blown when on Wade's detail, that was within the context of the Camarilla having already returned. It feels much more unlikely that the military would be able to predict that a particular politician would ascend to the vice presidency and have an agent live a non-witch alias for over a decade. If the military didn't believe in the return of the Camarilla until a year ago, why would they have sent an agent to spy on a rando politician 14 years ago? Further supporting this is that Sterling himself spent all those years in Silver's company and still genuinely believed that Silver was a good man as of 2x9. Are we to believe that Sterling was that bad a judge of character? So, Silver should be characterized in fic in the mold of someone who was radicalized only relatively recently. Note that Penelope was born well into the Spree era, so if it was the Spree, it was only because of the grind of the Spree era lasting for so long. Even more notably, the radicalization has to be recent enough that Sterling never met Hearst before he entered Fort Salem as a part of the TV crew to inject Penelope. Neither did Sterling know Kara Brandt. So, evidently Silver never met with those two in Sterling's presence in the 14 years Sterling was on his detail. Nor was Silver's behavior with Sterling such that Sterling would have reason to believe that Silver was secretly meeting with people while avoiding Sterling's observation.

[applepiealopecoid]

words on trees, bushes, rural regions, and forests for your writing

thicket — a dense group of bushes or trees

grove — a small wood, orchard, or group of trees

underbrush — shrubs and small trees forming the undergrowth in a forest

undergrowth — a dense growth of shrubs and other plants, especially under trees in woodland

canebrake — a piece of ground covered with a dense growth of canes

chaparral — vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes

woodland — land covered with trees

coppice — an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubsare, or formerly were, periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood or timber

hurst — a wood or wooded rise or hillock

hillock — a small hill or mound

copse — a small group of trees

bower — a pleasant shady place under trees or climbing plants in a garden or wood

deciduous — (of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually

coniferous — conifers are a group of cone-bearing, woody seed plants. they are most diverse in warmer areas like tropical mountains, and are also found in the wild regions of canada and russia

bosk or bosque — a thicket of bushes; a small wood

woodlot — a woodlot is a parcel of woodland or forest, typically small in size, that is capable of supporting small-scale production of forest products

pine — an evergreen coniferous tree that has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. many kinds are grown for their soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine

oak — a tree that bears acorns as fruit, and typically has lobed deciduous leaves. oaks are common in many north temperate forests and are an important source of hard and durable wood used chiefly in construction, furniture, and, formerly, shipbuilding

birch — a slender, fast-growing tree that has thin bark, often peeling, and bears catkins. birch trees grow chiefly in north temperate regions, some reaching the northern limit of tree growth

mahogany — hard reddish-brown timber from a tropical tree, used for high-quality furniture

hinterland — the often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks

willow — salix, also known as willows, osiers, and sallows, is a genus of around 350 species of shrubs and trees that are usually deciduous. they are primarily found in temperate and cold regions on moist soils. the white willow is the largest species, with mature trees growing up to 25 meters tall

redwood — sequoioideae, also known as redwoods, are a subfamily of coniferous trees in the cupressaceae family. they are the tallest trees in the world and can live for thousands of years

elm — ulmus, or elms, are a genus of deciduous and semi-deciduous trees found across most of the northern hemisphere. they are known for their broad shade and vase-like shape

magnolia — a tree or shrub with large, typically creamy-pink, waxyflowers. magnolias are widely grown as ornamental trees

greenwood — a wood or forest in leaf (regarded as the typical scene of medieval outlaw life)

boskage — massed trees or shrubs

countryside — the land and scenery of a rural area

country — districts, areas, and small settlements outside large towns, cities, or the capital

backwoods — remote uncleared forest land

outskirts — the outer parts of a town or city

wildwood — an uncultivated wood or forest that has been allowed to grow naturally

sticks — an area in the country that is far away from towns and cities

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Pileated Woodpecker

Photo: Robin Horn

"A big, dashing bird with a flaming crest, the largest woodpecker in North America (except the Ivory-bill, which is almost certainly extinct). Excavating deep into rotten wood to get at the nests of carpenter ants, the Pileated leaves characteristic rectangular holes in dead trees. This species became rare in eastern North America with clearing of forests in centuries past, but has gradually increased in numbers again since about the beginning of the 20th century. Where unmolested, it even lives in parks and woodlots around the edges of large cities."

- Audubon Field Guide

[ultrameirine]

When she left, she wept a great deal; she said to me, "This parting must be endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."

"all the violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill and crocus twined around your young neck"

"myrrh poured on your head"

"and on soft mats girls with all that they most wished for beside them"

"while no voices chanted choruses without ours, no woodlot bloomed in spring without song..."

- Sappho

[alcnfr]

Some of this morning's American Redbud (Cercis canadensis), aka American Judas Tree, blossoms in the woodlot.

[slowlifewithminecraft]

大したことしない日記197（巨木ランド） 今度はトウヒとジャングルの巨木の植林地を作りました。足場を作ると、木の高さが制限されるようなので、最小限のサイズでエレベーターを作りました。登って収穫してね！のんびりするスペースもあるよ。

"The Land of Giant Tree " I built the woodlot of spruce and jungle trees. You can cut woods. There is a lounge space.

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[rederiswrites]

Permaculture is one of those things which....ugh, I don't know. On the one hand y'all are talking sense in a world that's mostly still excited about gardening and farming techniques that actively damage the world. On the other, damn, you can sure be pretentious about it.

I'm watching a video, and she's like, "I'm assuming you're invested enough in permaculture that you know about the 12 Principles and the 5 Zones" and I'm like....no? So I look it up, and the 5 Zones thing is just, "Put stuff you interact with more closer to your center of operations." Sincerely, that's all it is.

I already did that, bro. That was common sense. It's great that you've got a system and that you've broken "common sense" down into teachable directives, but you're out here acting like "put greens and herbs and chickens near the house and pasture and woodlots and things you don't have to interact with daily further away" is the Ten Commandments or something.

I can't express my discomfort totally clearly yet, but at some point your teaching tools actually become shibboleths of the permie in-group and barriers to outside understanding, when it is sometimes very easy to express these concepts in a way that's readily accessible to most people with any experience with gardening or farming at all.

[1ore]

That reminded me that I was recently designing a sign about invasive species, and went down a rabbit hole reading about inclusive invasive species communications. I tracked down a neat workshop and some other readings that I'll share my notes from.

Resources

NISAW 2024: The Invasive Species Language Workshop – 3 hr recording of lecture-workshop

2:06:34 – Angie Gupta provides alternatives to typical invasive framing. 2:27:48 – What cartoon zebra mussels taught me about invasive species communication

Crafting Normative Messages to Protect the Environment

Testing Emphasis Message Frames and Metaphors on Social Media to Engage Boaters to Learn about Preventing the Spread of Zebra Mussels

The efficacy of message frames on recreational boaters’ aquatic invasive species mitigation behavioral intention

Notes

Problems with Existing Language

Communications about invasive species often rely on two metaphors:

Nativism – basically “native = good and foreign = bad.” Military metaphors – framing invasives as an enemy that we must fight; existential good vs. evil. (invasion itself is a military metaphor)

- they’re punchy - stir up feelings of national identity + personal action as part of larger effort. - BUT: Can tap into xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment; parallels history of exclusionary U.S. laws (e.g. Chinese exclusion act, Japanese internment era) Especially in the comments section…. - Can backfire when audience identifies with the invasive species instead (the maligned immigrant; the foreigner; the underdog) - This excellent article illustrates that sentiment. - “Chew notes that post-World War Two, the plant was described in similar terms to the Japanese a few years earlier. One suggestion at the time was to burn the plant out with flame throwers, a callback to the Pacific campaign.”

Strategies + Solutions

Alternative metaphors

- Invasive species as hitchhikers - Invasives as ecological bullies - Invasives as ecological illness/injury - Invasives as over-enthusiastic children that need to be reminded to share

Positive framing: for my sanity and yours! (e.g. “when we removed invasive species from this woodlot, we saw bluebells bloom for the first time” or “when the park started managing invasives, visitation went through the roof.”)

- Combats sense of hopelessness in the public AND land managers that managing invasives is a never-ending battle or waste of time/money. - Respectful of peoples’ emotional energy (we’re bombarded with awful news, doesn’t it feel good to hear that your small act is part of something meaningful?) - One alternative: framing management as an act of healing (or like managing an injury, illness, or chronic condition; “the quiet work of maintenance.”) - Good for our mental health as land managers and communicators so that we don’t burn out, feeling like we’re fighting a losing battle. - Honors human history. (people have managed this desert for thousands of years (for better or worse); change is a constant feature of the landscape, but we can take responsibility for anthropogenic changes like species invasion by doing what we do best as humans, e.g. changing our ecosystem.)

Making it their idea: “we have a problem and we need help” feels very different than “you have a problem and you need help.”

- Community-engaged invasive management is more meaningful when the community identifies the problem and the solution on their own. (even if it’s the same as our pre-existing management strategy—maybe we can plant these ideas in a more subtle way?)

No shame, no guilt: shame causes us to dig in our heels; guilt is petrifying. We want to give people hope and agency, not resentment for The Institution (or at least our staff LOL)   

Inspirational solutions: it’s OK if the solution isn’t glamorous—sometimes the story of how we arrived at the solution is inspirational.  

Normalization: Frame it as something that people just do.

- Involve friends, family, community – creates accountability - Be careful not to frame “bad behavior” as normal. (E.g. showing people cleaning their boats before getting on a lake, instead of focusing on the uninformed masses who don’t clean their boats—inadvertently framing that behavior as widespread and normal)

Identify observable ways that invasives impact the environment / drive change: People are more willing to manage species when species are framed as drivers of change rather than passengers of human disturbance.

- The tricky part: invasives are passengers of human disturbance… But people seem to be more willing to change behavior when messaging targets the species, not them (in our current social environment, at least) - BUT focusing on species impact can be a positive shift away from focusing on place of origin (e.g. we care about managing this species because it encourages fires in an environment that doesn’t cope well with fire… we want to have a wide variety of species in our park, not a monotonous stand of one species… vs. this species is an interloper from south Africa, it doesn’t belong)

People seem to respond to injunctive / legal framing (e.g. “It’s the law” “Texans expect you to clean, drain, and dry”)

[kihaku-gato]

I really do need to plan/plot up a bus route/trip/adventure from my sister's city house. I know with how stuff is going on its a longass way from happening but at worst I want to at least attainably dream of exploring the urban jungle again. And also visit the arboretum there again but on my own of course!