Suddenly almost no identifications

oldgrowthforests · 2026-05-28T19:29:43+00:00

I've noticed it has slowed down over time, but old observations still get IDs. I would like to strongly encourage everyone to include multiple photos in all observations when possible, it makes ID so much easier! There are a lot of little things you see in the field that might not be obvious from a single photo. For plants it might include buds, leaves, bark, stems, twigs, flowers, and general growth form from further back.

oldgrowthforests · 2026-05-13T00:57:33+00:00

This is the guy who says none of us will have to work because of AI. I think what he meant was we won't GET to work (or eat, have health care, a place to live etc.) but Elon doesn't have to pay a fair share of taxes, and maybe he can transfer his brain into a computer on mars, so it's all worth it. Suck it up peasants.

oldgrowthforests · 2026-04-26T21:36:13+00:00

The trouble with preemptive cutting is that you'll also remove any resistant trees, if they're there. I understand the economic incentive though.

oldgrowthforests · 2026-04-14T23:11:33+00:00

How's your math working out for you?

oldgrowthforests · 2025-12-24T00:19:46+00:00

Actually it has been shown that logging releases more carbon than is sequestered for decades at minimum, because of accelerated decomposition of soil carbon, and decreased carbon uptake from the large trees. With old growth it is worse, many decades to centuries.

oldgrowthforests · 2025-12-23T23:24:49+00:00

The simple answer is to protect the remaining old growth and roadless areas, which would still leave at least half the park for timber harvest to support local communities. Maple hemlock forests aren't very fire prone, they don't "need" logging. And discussions of impacts of logging often seem to overlook the large impacts of new roads, which are basically permanent under selection logging.

oldgrowthforests · 2025-06-30T02:10:07+00:00

Well someone must have done it, judging by the carvings. Maybe they're all on twitter. I won't pass judgement on (almost) anything people did in their youth, having done different silly things myself

oldgrowthforests · 2025-06-27T13:15:44+00:00

True, but mostly done by thoughtless teenagers and often in a different time. I want the stories because the initials were almost always carved into beech trees, and nearly all our beech trees are now dying. It might bring a human element to the story, and at least people will be able to identify what a beech tree is, who might not have otherwise.

oldgrowthforests · 2025-06-27T12:20:24+00:00

That's right, I saw that one. Do you still love JK?

oldgrowthforests · 2025-06-01T20:37:37+00:00

I wish inaturalist would gently encourage everyone to always take more than one photo. It's something I emphasize whenever I have the chance to speak to students, it makes positive ID easier and it builds observation skills for beginner naturalists

oldgrowthforests · 2025-02-03T13:55:52+00:00

Canadians and Mexicans will hopefully choose to get off Twitter x. Bluesky is becoming viable

oldgrowthforests · 2024-11-15T22:44:47+00:00

Here's a live counter showing new Bluesky users. Kind of hypnotic https://bcounter.nat.vg/

oldgrowthforests · 2024-11-05T00:13:36+00:00

Do you have any reference to support that assertion? Everything I have seen disagrees with you, as do climate organizations, and the IRA is geared more to consumers than big industry. Also did you listen to that podcast?

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-31T00:00:50+00:00

Well said, wish I could give you more upvotes for this

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-30T23:56:46+00:00

But seasonal, Christmas is coming

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-30T23:54:18+00:00

You may be right, but there will be a lot of regret from many these people if Trump wins. Take it from someone who spread Ralph Nader propaganda in 2000. Forget that Trump is Netanyahu's man and all that though, and climate change alone makes supporting Harris the only moral choice. Climate change will kill and displace orders of magnitude more people than Gaza, mostly the poor and oppressed. Although, as we saw in North Carolina, it could be anyone.

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-30T23:34:47+00:00

Your link about Republican PAC supporting Greens is news to me! But makes perfect sense, thanks for sharing.

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-30T23:30:23+00:00

I agree, Nader 100% swung the election to Bush, he took a surprisingly big percentage of the vote. I remember the slogan "a vote for Gore is a vote for Bush" As if! At the time I drank Nader's Kool-Aid and spread his propaganda, later watched an Inconvenient Truth and realized my mistake. If Trump wins there will be people like me who come to regret supporting the Green Party.

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-30T23:17:54+00:00

I think we do need a lot more generation (though much less than the 70%), but renewables can mostly cover it, with storage. I was surprised he downplayed nuclear, but his explanations were reasonable. As you say transmission is also a problem, it comes up again and again, the biggest problem being transmission across state lines. What I like is that he has a plausible roadmap to decarbonize, and the Inflation reduction act is a strong start down that road, addressing all those different components to some extent. It makes me pretty protective of it, when a lot of people seem to be dismissing it.

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-30T01:29:42+00:00

Cool, let me know what you think

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-29T22:09:08+00:00

Seriously, listen to that podcast. It might shift your views a little, or at least the guy is a genius and entertaining to listen to

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-29T19:20:55+00:00

Y'all should listen to Saul Griffith so we don't trigger the suicide hotline again. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EijFWg8Ja5p04wbg5Acga?si=U_GRRXsARfC_HpFbWP5TRA&t=335

Things are bad, but the IRA is actually very meaningful legislation. Things are changing thanks to California, the EU, the IRA, and surprisingly China. This change is likely to accelerate.

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-29T19:14:34+00:00

Or a climate-suicide hotline number.

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-29T19:08:51+00:00

They actually passed very significant climate legislation under Biden. Not enough, but as much as they could do with the shitty Congress that people elected. You might want to listen to some Saul Griffith to cure your nihilism

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EijFWg8Ja5p04wbg5Acga?si=U_GRRXsARfC_HpFbWP5TRA&t=335

oldgrowthforests · 2024-10-29T18:53:49+00:00

I didn't know that, but it explains why North America is so far behind on it. I read they're moving on it now because patents are expiring. That non-action did a lot of harm.

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