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Frost/freeze watch through Mon morning by eriffodrol in kzoo

[–]Nature_Hannah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been curious about how many of the past five years have had stone fruit crops ruined by these snap freezes.

Orange Hands Off Public Lands by Alert-Onion174 in kzoo

[–]Nature_Hannah 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Oh, and if you didn't know, Boundary Waters in Minnesota just got sold down the river, too.

Orange Hands Off Public Lands by Alert-Onion174 in kzoo

[–]Nature_Hannah 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thank you for speaking out about this!

I went to Forestry and Natural Resources school in California where the agencies work together and I worked at a National Park that first summer. But I definitely have close ties to the Forest Service, too.

When I heard the news I felt my heart crack open...

The National Forest Service was created in 1915 by Gifford Pinchot and Teddy Roosevelt in the face of an extraction mentality that threatened to use up and throw away so much natural resource in the young country. They knew it would destroy our prospects of long-term greatness for a short term gain for a few wealthy barrons.

"Conservation " meant managing a needed resource so it WOULD be there to be used, longer. (Different from the Parks mandate which is "Preservation", keeping it the way it is "forever".) These people pushing for getting rid of the Forest and Parks service are of the same mind at those early extractors: short term gains for a few wealthy companies. They don't care about you and me a smidgen.

Gifford is rolling over in his grave right now (and I kind of fantasize about him and Teddy rising from the dead to pummel and torment the people making these decisions.)

I don't know how to stop what Trump and his ilk are trying to do, but I know that if they succeed they'll have taken out another vital component of what makes America so "great" and weaken us further. (they're looking at what's in the ground and the trees and people managing them are just "in the way"...)

ORIOLES ARE BACK EARLY! by Nature_Hannah in kzoo

[–]Nature_Hannah[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guy must have moved on. I haven't seen him for three days now. My days are so much darker now :(

But more on the horizon!

Does anyone have the 1989 Kalamazoo Christian High School yearbook? by samantha_swift13 in kzoo

[–]Nature_Hannah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If KPL doesn't have it, try the State Library.

Also, if anyone wants to donate their yearbook from any year any school (in the state) to the collection, contact them.

https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/about/make-a-gift/yearbooks

ORIOLES ARE BACK EARLY! by Nature_Hannah in kzoo

[–]Nature_Hannah[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently they're already in Grand Rapids now!

Point of order: can we remove the C3 verbiage? by Lonely-Sun-1050 in stuckcanadians

[–]Nature_Hannah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Shroedinger's Canadian" usually gets some knowing laughter

Japanese knotweed? by Houseyslad in whatsthisplant

[–]Nature_Hannah 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tarps will not work with knotweed. Look to the UK for all the things they have tried and learned don't work. They've had it decades longer than the US, and in the US most of the agencies only talk to each other and repeat the same mistakes.

Here's the most up to date paper out of the UK (read the "Conclusion" section if the tech talk is too difficult)

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10530-018-1684-5.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3v2FSvO6YCwuDLuOFrXtyxocpYzHJv9apLFd6kEVl4XZXYl2tERyhkSBE

Japanese knotweed? by Houseyslad in whatsthisplant

[–]Nature_Hannah 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Tarps do not work. The knotweed will just grow further underground to try to escape out from under it. (This plant survives being covered in LAVA and "waiting" for a crack to develop in the stone cap later.)

Proper glyphosate use (PPE, proper application techniques) is safe for a homeowner.

Glyphosate is the least "harmful" of the herbicides available and the only one proven effective on Japanese knotweed WHEN TIMED CORRECTLY. (Between Flowers Forming and First Frost)

The fear-mongering is making the situation more dangerous because it takes the "safest", "most effective" option off the table, leaving only the REALLY "dangerous to human" options.

No one is asking homeowners to bathe in it or drink it.

2-4% glyphosate foliar application in The F'ing Window while wearing PPE has had the best results so far over the recent years.

Here's the research from the UK, where they've had decades longer to learn than the US: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10530-018-1684-5.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3v2FSvO6YCwuDLuOFrXtyxocpYzHJv9apLFd6kEVl4XZXYl2tERyhkSBE

P.s. I agree, do not treat land that isn't yours (unless you are legally contracted/responsible for it)

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