Stock photos of people with drinks, smiling and laughing.

FTFY

Just a skiff

No shit.

If God exists, he’s got a lot of fucking explaining to do when it comes to kids with cancer alone.

I just about spat out my coffee. Lmao

Not just archies, like another commentator points out, but Geo’s and pedologists too

In soil science we sometimes put soil in our mouth to determine between silt and clay or silt and fine sand

What would you propose, then?

We use organic amendments all the time when reclaiming historically mined lands that did not salvage soils.

Soils take millennia to form, and you’re not going to get fertile soils without either kickstarting the process or waiting.

Another commentator points out that using arbuscular mychorrizhal fungi is also cheating. Again, how?

To have a functional soil and not regolith you need the following:

• An organic matter source - regolith lacks this
• A moisture retaining media - regolith usually has this but its ability varies widely
• Enough rooting depth for your desired plants
• A method to transform organic matter to nutrients - regolith generally lacks this

Organic matter is your pool of nutrients and microbes and fungi are what mineralize this pool into plant available forms, so saying they are cheating doesnt hold water (like a shitty regolith).

But I can grow plants in glass beads! Sure you can, but you’re supplying chemical fertilizer to do it and constantly replacing that - so in this case you’re the organic matter pool and the transformation vector.

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You need humus to grow hummus ;)

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Always has bean

This horseshit. I dedicated mine to my partner and married her afterwards.

If this is the kind of stuff the prof is sending in writing I can only imagine the kind of bullshit the are pulling in person and with everything else.

I would be complaining to the dean.

I’d call you a salmonologist but that’s semantics almost

Deserts are hard to restore because anything that established is quickly buried, they lack nutrients and they lack water.

Once you stabilize, things get a lot easier especially if you plant drought resistant stuff

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

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

Let’s eat grandma

No, I think we have painted ourself into a corner again. You now HAVE to do controlled burns since our previous management avoided any fire at all costs and built up huge fuel stores that would have normally burnt.

Also, sidebar: our ecosystems today are not those that were present thousands of years ago. I can hear the keyboards clacking already, but what I mean is this: ecosystems will come together and then fade away as conditions change - your pine dominant forest may not have even existed as you see it today and instead had a different canopy and/or different understory species. Ecosystems live, breathe, and adapt just like a giant organism and I think that’s super cool.

Your soil moisture regime changes? A new community moves in. You have a global cooling or warming? That original community may go extinct, or only some species will remain and those species may not have the same dominance they once had as they are now operating at the edge of their niche conditions rather than under optimal ones.

Look at that, you got me monologuing you sly dog

Generally, good land management is lazy land management. Nature (and her ecosystems) got on just fine without us. The only reason we need to manage the fire cycle now is so that we don’t have our population centers burnt by the natural fire cycle. However, we largely already fucked that part up by intervening in the fire cycle, and not allowing areas close to these centers to burn. As a result, you end up with conflagrations popping up where you don’t want them to.

Mr. Simpson, are you just holding on to the cans?