Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago.
We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better.
It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍
We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better.
It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍
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Photo and first paragraph above by @avlawson.bsky.social in reply to a post of mine the other day.
There is NO VIRTUE in simply trading one flavor of ignorance and inaction for another flavor of ignorance and in action.
We should ask ecologists where to plan trees and then hop to it. Period.
On the other hand humans planting trees can do so for nice monetary payment, so politicians can add nice political benefits to the payment structures.
This man is a great inspiration:
https://theecologist.org/2014/may/14/inspirational-forester
Wildflowers we had no idea were in the area came back. Lightning bugs and a wealth of butterflies the following spring.
Watching plants and mushrooms grow that I had never seen before.
It gives me hope ✨
I'm baffled that down the road the council spends £££ hand planting the same and putting little plastic collars around them.
What do you think of perhaps slowly replanting trees in New Zealand to help reduce the endless empty land on the South Island that was once forest, but due to deforestation is now bare?
Or is it far too late?
Give us some examples
Birch sycamore and ash dont occur here…
UK is a bit of a special case as we don't have invasive trees, even the small stuff is pretty minor
But sometimes we need to plant the first seeds, so that the forest can grow.
True in business leadership as well as nature...
If we’re okay with the ecosystem changing and some species going extinct, that’s one thing.
But if you’re not okay with that you NEED to do land management.
However, it is a moving truth that exemplifies how beauty can come out of absolute desolation. We need that reminder these days.
In areas where erosion has been heavy or conditions harsh, recovery can be slow, or sometimes (such as with blowing sands) altogether impossible.
Planting not only speeds up reforestation, but also minimizes erosion in the meantime.
Invasives do not support diversity they smother it.
But the point I suppose is that re-vegetation will depend on available seed banks and dispersal from nearby. If that’s a mess (invasives, opportunists) then it isn’t really what you want
Indiana, USA
But what about God & our angel's wings?
Doesn't HE
give US dominion
to rape all things
air land water women & girls
as God is HE
women are
our dominion too you see
faith:
blind, unquestioning, tribal,
uncouth.
science-driven methods
& questions
get closer to truth
The damage humans do, doesn't go away when we stop using a plot of land. It continues to come in from everywhere humans have been. Nature needs our help to eradicate invasives, and often needs help restoring native ecosystems.
Yeah, no. Sometimes we've effed things so badly, we have to help. The desert would continue to encroach into places where even subsistence farming is failing. This approach returns biodiversity and human self-sufficiency. We have to stop shitting in the nest.
Just because we can ponder the universe, doesn’t mean we could create one that works.
We are an impediment to natural forces that will absolutely exist if we just stop making everything about our own convenience.
We would destroy the planet for that. Wild.
Thankfully Ireland is one of the least forested countries in the EU. Who wants less carbon in the atmosphere anyway?!
Ireland is being hit every year or two with a new tree disease (wiping out countless wild, native trees) due to the constant importation of trees and plants.
And that's just for starters...
It is so that the relatively recently created industry of tree shredders can flourish
We plant trees everywhere
Leave them to grow for a few years
Then send in a team to cut them down and shred them
You see this happening along every road side
Wanting to help =/= actually helping
One example is “tree planting” by companies that ends up a massive monoculture.
Like opening chrysalis for struggling bugs. They need the struggle to develop their limbs properly.
Etc.
Fuck we can't even do that if we had a 7 year headstart. And we can guarantee that every seed planted grows to an adult, Nature can't do that.
Of course in some cases nature does fine on its own, but not always as many have pointed out.
If we want to bring back the longleaf and wire grass ecosystem where I live the only way is through thoughtful planning and human work.
So, humans should step up and lend some helping hands!
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/tree-planting-climate-change-albedo
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
Nature is great at healing but in some cases assistance is required.
Dumb.