A lot of places in developed countries are gaining tree cover pretty quickly because it turns out that plants grow back pretty fast when you just leave them alone.
Not necessarily the same ones as used to be there, so you can gripe about biodiversity loss, but it's still better than nothing.
Ok, that's much more feasible than my classes led me to believe. It is unfortunate that native plants can't grow back as much, but that's part of environmental adaptation, which is necessary as this point. I think I remember reading once that a certain amount if species go extinct daily? I don't have the source to back this up though. I wish they'd do that in Idaho. Some of our mountains are ugly as shit because they took chunks out of the forests.
Odradek: Hey!
CA: -hugs- What's up? I missed you! I kept seeing Junie B. Jones books at this local bookstore I like to go to.
I'm all right. Still working in the antiques shop, but have lost my mom and gained a cat since we last talked, so those are the Big Events in the past few years for me.
A lot of places in developed countries are gaining tree cover pretty quickly because it turns out that plants grow back pretty fast when you just leave them alone.
Not necessarily the same ones as used to be there, so you can gripe about biodiversity loss, but it's still better than nothing.
Ok, that's much more feasible than my classes led me to believe. It is unfortunate that native plants can't grow back as much, but that's part of environmental adaptation, which is necessary as this point. I think I remember reading once that a certain amount if species go extinct daily? I don't have the source to back this up though. I wish they'd do that in Idaho. Some of our mountains are ugly as shit because they took chunks out of the forests.
Native plants could grow back; it all depends on the exact plant. Some grow faster than others.
The biodiversity thing has to do with the process of ecological succession -- you're not going to get an old-growth forest with its species composition immediately when trees start growing back. You'll get early adopters, and then only later when you get a thicker, more mature stand of woodland, will you get some other species.
^^^ Pretty good. Didn't sleep nearly enough but I'm listening to Birchville Cat Motel so I guess that's pretty chill in a weird way?
I feel ya. I woke up at 10 last night, couldn't sleep until 2 a.m.
What's Birchville Cat Motel?
Experimental music project, kind of a drone/noise thing involving guitar feedback and analogue synths, sometimes with an ambient or doom metal feel. The guy behind it, Campbell Kneale, has a zillion side-projects and apparently is also a rotating player in a bunch of bands.
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Odradek: Hey!
CA: -hugs- What's up? I missed you! I kept seeing Junie B. Jones books at this local bookstore I like to go to.
^Thanks. How's it going?
What's Birchville Cat Motel?
The biodiversity thing has to do with the process of ecological succession -- you're not going to get an old-growth forest with its species composition immediately when trees start growing back. You'll get early adopters, and then only later when you get a thicker, more mature stand of woodland, will you get some other species.
this
this makes me happier
IMI
IMI
COME BACK
PLAY ME METAL
I SAW BLACK TUSK TWO WEEKS AGO
I'M GONNA SEE EYEHATEGOD IN JUNE
Vriska: Is she sweet or a bastard?
Glenn: Okay, this makes more sense. It always seemed absolutely hopeless before. It just takes time and non-interference.
METAL!
YOU SAW BLACK TUSK, THAT IS COOL!
I've been more into metal recently.
It happens. I'm glad to see you again to. How's stuff going?
That's pretty much it.
I've been drawing more. It's all weird.
oh also I'm naney/inane242 by the way
I'm not sure if our tenures on this site had much of an overlap?
^I remember you. But, you prolly came around near the start of my abscence.