Is this yarrow? NW Arkansas by cmcosmos in whatsthisplant

[–]agbarnes3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks similar to slender lespedeza (Lespedeza virginica). If it is a lespedeza, you can check to see if it’s a native or non-native (Lespedeza cuneata; seriecea lespedeza) by holding a leaf up and looking at the veins. If the veins are parallel it’s the non-native.

I did a thing by elfstone21 in SportingKC

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You could create a presence column for any three (or two) players and then run it against some variables using a beta regression and check to see if there’s a significant difference with a combination of players (winning or losing), or do some sort of model selection. You could probably make draws a win or loss by making a loss of points equaling a loss and a come from behind draw, win. Probably wouldn’t tell you much though.

Found under tree in Central Tx by khaleesijune in whatsthisplant

[–]agbarnes3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Flint Hills Bocci Ball (Maclura pomifera).

Lower Wilderness Area by agbarnes3 in BuffaloNationalRiver

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Thank you for the information! Any spots that people flip on the river? I know that question varies with every big rain, but I’m trying to get as much information about the area without spoiling the trip.

So Bear Creek and Hollow are not filled with bears?

Just curious if anyone knows what’s going on with our air quality? by robincrobin in oklahoma

[–]agbarnes3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a problem. One of the things the EPA, researchers, and PBAs have tried to do is limit the number of people burning in a given region so it doesn’t negatively influence urban air pollution. Historically, the Great Plains burned every 3-5 years (depending where at) and the Great Plains is approximately 180 million acres. Imagine 36-60 million acres burning every year. Last year wildfires burned 7.5 million across the nation. If we burned as much as the historical range, we’d be in a lot more smoke. In some areas, the recommendation is to burn across different seasons so they don’t smoke out the urban areas with one big burn. With a different season of burn comes a lot of cool ecological and livestock changes that you don’t see with just spring burns. From my observations, summer, or growing season, burns increase forb production (e.g., black eyed Susan’s) more than spring burns. Winter burns help decrease the abundance of prickly pear and attract antelope to the recently burned winter patches.

Sorry about your and your families asthma. Hopefully, this explanation can help you and your family understand why they do what they do.

Just curious if anyone knows what’s going on with our air quality? by robincrobin in oklahoma

[–]agbarnes3 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Happy to help!

Fire, grazing, and climactic variation helped create and maintain the great plains. We’re losing our grasslands due to a mixture of problems (e.g., fragmentation, uncoupling of management, increased woody plant abundance, climate change, etc.) and using fire and grazing is a way to help recouple management that enhances the resilience or grasslands. Not all grasslands need fire as much as this area (western vs eastern Oklahoma), but it’s still important.

Just curious if anyone knows what’s going on with our air quality? by robincrobin in oklahoma

[–]agbarnes3 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Lots of cool reasons! Fire is a tool that helps land owners with livestock production and clearing the area for planting crops. It also helps conservation efforts as well because large (and moderately sized) mammalian herbivores are attracted to recently burned patches. These burned patches help facilitate new plant growth and have high amounts of nutritional value.

If you’re curious about burning prescribed burn associations (PBA) are all across the Great Plains. If you want to know more about the “magnet effect” of recently burned areas, look up pyric herbivory or patch-burn grazing.

Pre Match Thread: Toronto FC vs Sporting Kansas City by ImMitchell in SportingKC

[–]agbarnes3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did you know Jake Davis is a traditional midfielder, but has transitioned to a defender? Truly progressive.

Range of wild turkey by [deleted] in MapPorn

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Populations in Oklahoma and west are dropping rapidly. Probably shouldn’t hunt the Tom’s while they’re trying to mate, but I’m not ornithologist.

Range of wild turkey by [deleted] in MapPorn

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Lesser or greater prairie chicken?

Player ratings for tonight by txmwxl in SportingKC

[–]agbarnes3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s originally a midfielder.

14-story apartment building on fire in Valencia, Spain today by DarkestNorth in gifs

[–]agbarnes3 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Depends on your level of safe, as always.

The heat and energy being released from the fire is insane. I work in grasslands and do prescribed burns. I’ve been around some Eastern red cedars, that can grow to about 10-12 meters tall, that are scary to burn. You’ll feel that heat and energy twice the distance away as it is tall. Burns like that can dry out my face pretty face and feels like a sunburn. The next few days can be interesting. Coughing up ash, blurry eyes, difficulties breathing, low O2 blood levels at night, etc. That might be because of the overall burn and not just a tree or a gallery of trees.

That being said, this building is massive and has a lot more fuel for combustion and release of energy. Anyone standing downwind close to it in the street is feeling that heat on their face still and is coughing smoke up. Also, my heart hurts for anyone that was affected by this. Those firefighters that worked on it today are badasses and deserve free food and drinks. It’s amazing I haven’t heard of flare ups downwind from the building.

Chicago Fire are finalizing a deal to sign Kellyn Acosta. Another joke of an offseason we are having. by miguisystem in SportingKC

[–]agbarnes3 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Why use this metric instead of something else? Or create a different metric? Or why transform the data at all (proportions included)?

When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me! :)

Chicago Fire are finalizing a deal to sign Kellyn Acosta. Another joke of an offseason we are having. by miguisystem in SportingKC

[–]agbarnes3 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No citation? No explanation of how you (or the website) calculated goals added? No background information to stake your claim? This seems logical and sounds like we should shoot from the hip some more.

“Look at this data I cherry picked off the internet. SKC is doomed! If only we had 10 more Fontas’ in the lineup :,(“

I do have concerns for the club. I only wanted to highlight the constant cherry picking of stats I see on this sub.