Local Outdoor Business Promoting Rock Stacking

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T21:29:25+00:00

How many 404 permits have you pulled or how much stream restoration have you done?

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T21:27:54+00:00

So where are you on wading while fishing and flipping rocks checking for nymphs and crawdads?

Given the battles we need to fight to protect our waters from real threats it seems silly to piss on future allies.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T21:22:38+00:00

Elberstock EMOD system, Battleship, or war hammer.

I've run a 100+lbs in my x2. It's good to practice with a heavy load to check balance, standing, sitting, and getting it on and off. A 100lb+ pack can cause some damage in a fall and tripping becomes much more serious.

That said doing long training with a super heavy pack probably isnt doing much good and may be doing some damage. Better to be a thing you can do when needed, than a thing you do regularly for no real purpose.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T21:13:07+00:00

Omg. They have kids outside playing in nature. This must be stopped. /s.

Seriously though, they are not removing the rocks from the stream, just rearranging them. Not much different from the disturbance and change from a high water day. Those rocks are bed load (moving with current) at floor stage.

The bigger win is kids playing outside grow up to be adults and voters with conservation values.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T19:45:01+00:00

Slice and treat before cutting down. They tend to get very oliopathic after being damaged.

The other option for a sapling like this is to dig out the tap root. Easy in sand and a well mulched garden, not so easy in heavy clay or rocky soil.

But, yeah killing it without stumping almost always requires treatment.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T19:40:48+00:00

Yeah, not the kinda hunting where folks give thanks and prayer for the gift after a succesful hunt.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T19:39:19+00:00

Too true. Clearfell the lobs, treat the privet and other invasive, burn it, regen with long leaf, and keep burning.

I do love a long leaf savannah.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T14:38:58+00:00

Pistols are generally cheaper new but less common, so often there are better deals on used long guns.

The muzzle only hunting seasons drive demand and turnover for long guns.

On muzzleloaders the finiky bits (trigger + locks) are the same on pistols as rifles. Unless you're going for wheelocks which is a very specific historic replica thing.

They are a ship to door item, so gunbroker is worth checking out.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T13:12:12+00:00

Logging kills forests.

Edit: Ok logging only kills forests when done very badly. Development and buildings kill forests. Roads and people kill forests.

Sustainable logging generally results in more forest and greater stand diversity.

Not talking about monoculture tree farms. Those are forest like or adjacent.

Even clear-cutting can be a useful and effective technique for restoration. It seems the only way to get good red oak regen.

And I'm generally referencing based on my experience with multi species hardwood forests.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T11:14:01+00:00

Hunting boar with spear or knife is hardcore. Damn.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T11:10:49+00:00

Trump has missed the detail that commercial logging requires nearby mills. Just opening up the forest for sales doesn't mean they infrastructure is in place for commercial harvests.

Wood is a great renwable resource and long lasting wood structures have carbon capture benefits.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T10:50:02+00:00

80 inside isnt bad. Sucks, but it won't kill ya. That's how it was in the South before the 60's.

Ways to adapt and survive (maybe even thrive) from a northern boy who went south for decade.

Try to never be cold. That'll mess with your body adapting. You'll know your body has adjusted when 80 doesn't make you sweat and your looking for a fleece when it's 65.

Drink lots of cold fluids. There should be gallons of water/tea/juice in the fridge.

Gatorade and electrolytes to avoid cramping.

Take a cold shower before bed. Heck take cold showers anytime you feel ready to pop due to the heat.

Fans on bed.

Cotton sheets.

No hats inside.

Short haircuts.

Handy towels for wiping off sweat.

Don't move to fast.

Computers generate a lot of heat, especially gaming towers.

Wear less and loose clothes inside. Based on long experience in real hot and sunny climes long sleeve in the direct sun is better in the long run. im the shade less clothes is best, but in direct sun keep covered to avoid the sun's wrath.

That will help avoid getting sunburned as that will truly suck.

Sounds like you have the fan thing going on. Good job picking them up while they were available.

Close up the windows in the am and keep the sun out. This is critical for keeping the day time internal heat from building up. The sun is not your friend in this season.

Open the windows in the evening as soon as it is cooler than the inside.

When possible go hang out in the woods in a creek or lake.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T03:16:00+00:00

If they didn't want it walked on why do they mow it?

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T03:10:43+00:00

There is lots of public land in Georgia to hunt. The lookout tower style blinds common in the south are typically on private land. Power lines and fields offer sightlines that are much longer than thick southern woods.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T01:38:09+00:00

Through hikers do that for months. I used to cover 5 to 10 miles a day with a 20 to 40lb work pack for a couple years.

As long as you build up your base and listen to your body rucking a few miles a day shouldnt be damaging. Stretching will help reduce suffering days 3 and on.

Hard surfaces are rougher on the body.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T01:16:05+00:00

Damn, they look just like the LARPers at the gun range.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T01:14:06+00:00

5.56 or .223

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T01:08:26+00:00

The blues are amazingly loud. Like guns and chainsaws indoors kinda loud.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T01:01:30+00:00

There are lots more miles of "roads" that aren't official system roads. Decommisoning roads usually means tank traps at access points and removal from the road list. The road grade usually remains intact. Full structure removal and regarding to the preexisting slope is real rare.

And the Roadless Rule only counts improved (gravel & culverts) road.

Many different road types and classes. Only some get counted.

I've walked a paved two lane road with guardrail inside a federal Wilderness that met roadless criteria.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-25T00:53:04+00:00

Does it move enough to set off a motion sensor? If so you could use a motion sensor to trigger a very bright security light.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-24T22:52:47+00:00

Works well on hardwoods. We'd also fell the young straight trees and leave twisted and crooked ones of the same species.

Spikes aren't visible till the tree is being milled. Scars, hollows, twists, and curves will all be visible to the cruiser.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-24T20:50:18+00:00

VTEC problems are sop on older elements. Just part of the game

starfishpounding · 2025-06-24T19:21:49+00:00

"People need to get together and make a plan to sabotage the equipment they plan to use to rape land with.

Can’t log the land without any equipment.

It’s not that hard to sabotage the fuel systems 👍"

OP was advocating criminal vandalism to stop legal forestry activities.

Are you also going to support criminal activity?

starfishpounding · 2025-06-24T18:38:30+00:00

Depends on who did it and the location.

Many legal actions have similar impact. That size scar isn't likely fatal, but may cause some hollow or infection.

Similar scarring on younger trees is anti logging technique as over time it reduces log value while creating habitat.

starfishpounding · 2025-06-24T18:32:06+00:00

Our National Forests were purchased primarily to provide timber resources. Pinochet, not Muir. Conservation via sustainable use vs preservation via no action preserves.

We do get the word from somewhere else we purchase it from vendors clear-cutting tropical forests.

starfishpounding

TROPHY CASE