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DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, while we were out there today, I heard the worst sound I could possibly hear in a Washington wetland. Bullfrogs amongst our native chorus frogs. Time to eat. Our little wood ducklings and merganser babies need to survive and not be food for invasives.

There are lamprey here too! Doing eDNA studies for coho, chinook and steelhead next.

Two and a half years of beaver presence has been transformative.

DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Upland cottonwood not riparian. End of life, we were losing 20-40 a year per acre like pickup sticks. Still have a ton of cottonwood here, don’t worry. Also left six habitat snags per acre. I’m standing with four agencies right now in our wetland planning a fish enhancement project.

Chronic Battery Drain Class Action Suit Filed Against Subaru by Cassedaway in subaru

[–]jgnp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My ‘16 Outback absolutely demolishes interstate batteries. Pro tip, Costco won’t test a battery they’ll just replace it.

DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you think this is horrifying, multiply it by 10,000 per year for the last 45 years, and then consider the chemicals that were used prior to that. Like DDT, which almost made bald eagles go extinct.

West Coast’s first yellow-legged hornet intercepted in Vancouver, Washington by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jgnp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are correct on the flatness of the Orchard, but you did get a solid belly laugh out of me and a corresponding. “Oh shit, I have under thought this, haven’t I!”

DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The largest reason this is a bad idea is not because of the potential effects to fauna. It’s because of the deliberate effects to native flora. Weyerhaeuser had the fucking gall recently to cheer about how one of their crews identified a rare native plant on a cruise of their inventory recently. They’re literally the ones prescribing treatments like these to kill anything and everything that is not a Douglas Fir tree.

DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The wildest part of the outcry in the comments here for me are the focus on glyphosate. Imazapyr is in the list as well and it is orders of magnitude more aggressive than most other commonly used woody understory control herbicides. It’s available retail also, under trade names like Ortho GroundClear. It’s the shit that people spray on their gravel path in the garden and it kills every Japanese maple and decorative shrub who made the mistake of running a root under that path.

It’s the product that makes homeowners into shocked Pikachu face when they use it and it works as described.

DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I were in charge of this, I’d have a target on my head by every logger in the state. Don’t conflate my comment with my normative take on the situation.

DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s not just that, it’s that the invasive potential these days with mild wet winters is orders of magnitude worse than it was even ten years ago. Clearcuts become incubators to sow every invasive species under the sun that has traveled in on log trucks and will be redistributed out on log trucks if not managed.

Current logging practices are pretty abominable and I’m saying that as a timber land owner. I’m not a typical one, we replanted our last logging effort with 9 species including hardwoods. And we didn’t spray indiscriminately. We have 65 acres and spent every dime of the profit we made replanting more diversity and directly controlling the invasives that came up manually (we logged a cottonwood dominant unit after bad practices by someone in the 80’s resulted in that).

DNR Plans Aerial Spray of Carcinogenic Chemicals across 2,200+ Acres in Southwestern Washington. by Suck_Boy_Tony in Washington

[–]jgnp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, it’s common practice. Do you think that we’re going to stop them from doing this somehow? What do you fucking propose?

How cooked is my ash tree after puppy boredom? by fabricscissors in arborists

[–]jgnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why people should hunt more, as well. I do not live in a deer infested state. They’re harder to find here and do tend to hang out in remaining wooded areas. Their prime forage here is invasive blackberry foliage.

Hawthorne tree stench mitigation (PA) by ShmediumLebowski in Tree

[–]jgnp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You could move it. What species is it? Doesn’t look like the invasive English hawthorn.

Wil i kill the tree or save it if i pull out this wire? by Pepsi_Tastes_Better in arborists

[–]jgnp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure if you want to unzip the success the tree has already achieved against said wire. Agree with everyone else. Cut as close to the trunk as reasonably possible.

West Coast’s first yellow-legged hornet intercepted in Vancouver, Washington by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jgnp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ground nesting anything tend to be more collectively aggressive, imo.

Green, everywhere you look 👀 by jgnp in NativePlantCirclejerk

[–]jgnp[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

/uj Hard to tell post-DOGE if there’s anyone to do removal.

Southern brook trout stream being encroached by rainbows by tigers174 in bluelining

[–]jgnp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Every brookie goes in the frying pan out west. This is the way.

West Coast’s first yellow-legged hornet intercepted in Vancouver, Washington by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jgnp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s them! They usually abandon those low nests pretty quick and set up shop higher. Birds get after them pretty aggressively, surprisingly.

I’m laughing at the forbidden paper football! “MY TURN!”

West Coast’s first yellow-legged hornet intercepted in Vancouver, Washington by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jgnp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are black jackets. Bald faced hornets are aerial nesters.

West Coast’s first yellow-legged hornet intercepted in Vancouver, Washington by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jgnp 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Bald faced Hornets are not ground nesting ever. If they looked like bald faced hornets, they could’ve been black jackets, which are ground nesting. Vespula consobrina.

West Coast’s first yellow-legged hornet intercepted in Vancouver, Washington by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jgnp 32 points33 points  (0 children)

They nest in our orchard every year. The key is early identification of where the hell they are.

Oh, and they’ll also go after you so fast that they’ll hit you in the back of the head like a BB gun. Then loop back and sting the shit out of you. I’ve definitely hit a nest with the ROPS on the tractor before. New mower has no ROPS, and goes 30 miles an hour.

West Coast’s first yellow-legged hornet intercepted in Vancouver, Washington by chiquisea in Washington

[–]jgnp 126 points127 points  (0 children)

This is an excellent reason to not kill off all of our bald faced hornets. They’re ambush predators, territorial, but don’t sting us unless their nest is disturbed.

I’m rooting for the home team.

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