This is green washing no matter how you slice it. While it’s an interesting idea, artificial refugia, like bat boxes or these balls, have to be very carefully designed so they don’t have one of these negative outcomes:

• Act as a trap for the targeted species with regards to predators
• Kill the target species - often through thermal extremes
• Just don’t get used by the target species

There’s some good work about this on (fuck, fine rummaging for paper) Australian quolls

I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.

Anyway, artificial refugia should, at best, be viewed as a temporary fix, or a way to layer habitat on the landscape, never a full substitution.

Your nuts are also full of microplastics

So what kind of violin did you make from him?

This is land reclamation in a nutshell.

Like a marinating chicken, this gets better the longer this thread goes

Do ya do ya wanna?

Mod approved. You’re going on the fridge

I’m very happy to be back.

Thanks @[email protected] and team for dealing with the technical issues and for keeping us running

If it freezes on the way down does it become a snowcone?

Anything over 42" - that’s the top range for a Shetland pony

True, but it’s a slippery slope - much of the user base here left Reddit because they hated it.

We’re just posting screenshots from Reddit now?

I love the implications of getting to shoot uncle Glenn with a laser again on his way to meet his maker

Idk but I’m cranking my hog rn hbu

No deterrent when you’re butt ugly - system works as intended

That’s you with the bat isn’t it?

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/super-heavy-load-to-cause-traffic-delays-in-edmonton-area-northeast-alberta-this-weekend/

Found the Ork boy

I love that you got your childhood home back.

I always dreamed of getting my childhood home back but it’s just not in the cards. It was a beautiful acreage - the house sucked, but the property was what made it great. We had about 15 40 ft spruce trees in our yard, a dogwood hedge that would grow from 5 ft to 8 ft if you turned your back on it for more than 3 days (lol), tons of Aspen for a young Shovel to stomp around in, and a slough in the back for said Shovel to catch woodfrogs.

We sold to move into town a few years after my parents split.

Some dickhead moved in, built a big barn thing on one side of the property and cut the bottom branches of a lot of the spruce trees which ruined a lot of the privacy the place had.

I always wanted to move back, rip the house down and build my own house on it. Instead, I moved my young family to a small town about 15 minutes from where I grew up. I still get the country feel and the connection with the landscape I longed for, even though it’s not exactly the same, and we have a new-build house.

I guess I did ok.

Somebody ban this guy