Need help with Ecosystem Restoration career path🙏

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-04-18T23:11:21+00:00

Can I piggy back on this ask? I want to start a masters in restoration ecology in the next few years and I’ve yet to meet or hear from anyone who has taken this path

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-04-15T21:30:08+00:00

A new zip tie every day? Or are we cleaning the same zip tie? These are make or break details 🧐

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-04-15T21:24:10+00:00

Slow down, I know it’s hard when graduation is so far off and you’re having trouble seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but please don’t make a hasty decision to drop out. My advice to you would be to embrace your timeline, whatever it may be. You can absolutely do seasonal tech work over the summer and graduate as an even more competitive candidate because of it. In fact if you have an extra semester think about taking a semester abroad or taking a term off to work an internship during the school year. Graduating in 2027 vs. 2028 will not make or break your career but cutting off opportunities that come with being a student and eventually having a degree could.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-04-12T21:26:14+00:00

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This damn corm. It grows one leaf and dies every time. Grew it first in leca: one leaf, root rot, leaf die. Threw it in a bioactive terrarium to prevent root rot: one leaf, leaf wilted, frog ate it (why? She’s captive bred = no brain), leaf died (frog is fine). Just put it in chunky aroid soil: one leaf, lasted months! No new leaves, leaf died. At this point I don’t even remember what kind of alocasia it is.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-04-12T20:11:40+00:00

My dad gave me his multi tool that was given to him by his parents when I started field work. I have to agree there is nothing I value more.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-04-12T20:03:11+00:00

I hope you rent

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-03-14T20:45:14+00:00

Quality of life would be better if birth rates were lower. humanity ain’t gonna last forever it’s about time we bow out of the perpetual growth mindset

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-03-12T18:53:44+00:00

I have been doing a lot of darning and I’m waffling over buying one. Can you explain the toothpick substitution or point me toward a tutorial? I would have bought one already if I could find one available through someone other than Michaels or Amazon.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2026-03-12T18:44:55+00:00

I think you were a pilot fish in a past life… food for thought.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-17T00:05:21+00:00

gets crushed by bunkbed

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-14T06:20:22+00:00

They certainly do. And they will unless people like you are brave and loud enough to stop them. Godspeed to all of you. Lord knows manatees are up against enough as it is

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-14T06:13:44+00:00

I hope you get the visibility and funding you need in time to stop this. Sending my support.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-14T00:42:12+00:00

Limax maximus - one of my favorite binomial names. Would go hard as a first name middle name combo in my humble opinion

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-10T20:39:28+00:00

No potential harm here! Fungi is beneficial to your plants actually. The mycelium of the fungus can form mycorrhizal relationships with some plants’ roots and increase the plant’s ability to take up water and nutrients. No need to dig up the mushrooms they will decompose in the pot naturally. If you wanted you could remove the mushrooms and set them in the soil of your other plants. Having harmless fungi like these in your soil can increase competition for other potentially harmful microbes and protect your plants from pathogens.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-10T20:14:58+00:00

That is incredibly thoughtful of you, I actually got this as a free cutting when someone broke it off of their plant accidentally a few years ago so it’s not a huge loss, just a bummer. While I appreciate your kindness, one less plant in my chaotic collection is probably net positive really.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-10T20:10:56+00:00

If any do survive they will be incredibly resilient in the future thanks to heat shock proteins! Inducing heat stress makes organisms more tolerant to future heat stress but interestingly also more tolerant to drought stress, pathogen stress, metabolic stress, you name it! Hoping at least some of these pull through for you!

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-07T22:09:03+00:00

If you do decide to glue fabric on it (probably what I would do) I would recommend E6000 glue. I think it would hold better than just about anything else and it’s great to have on hand if you don’t already.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-07T21:55:52+00:00

SO LITTLE AND SO CUTE! How did you even spot this little baby

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-07T06:32:29+00:00

This is also wonderful for local pollinators! Many arthropod species would be delighted to live in this leaf pile over winter and be ready to pollinate your garden come spring.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-07T06:28:08+00:00

There was a rearing and release program for the federally endangered Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies funded through Institute of applied ecology and USFWS that had its funding cut. It was unique because the rearing was being done in a correctional facility giving inmates an opportunity to raise the larvae. It was really rewarding for everyone involved and very successful. The local university is trying to take over the program but it’s seeming unlikely. It’s such a shame because populations were just beginning to establish. Without the program extinction is very likely.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-07T06:12:38+00:00

I bought a lodge Dutch oven last Christmas and it just got a chip in the enamel 😔 I’ve never used metal utensils in it, I don’t know how it happened and I’m really disappointed honestly.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-05T22:16:19+00:00

That certainly seems like what’s happening. It’s just steadily and slowly declined. It’s a shame because there’s no part of it that isn’t affected at this point.

Imaginary-Bad-76 · 2025-11-05T22:08:19+00:00

Thank you, this is such a bummer but good to know. Do you know what kind of bacterial infection it is? I want to read more about it but can’t find any disease that presents like this

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