This is great news! Isn't this the place where they are trying to eradicate non-native species like rats? I remember seeing a Tom Scott video about that.
I used to own and breed axolotls. To me they were easy to care for. Just keep the water cold and siphon any poop you see. I had a turkey baster velcrod to the side just in case. I was able to get a batch of 4 color types on my last breeding attempt. Lucistic, melanoid, wild type, and albinos. Sadly I had to get rid of it all when my mother complained that the water chiller used too much electricity, even though we had like 3 air conditioners running at the time. Oh well I had fun
Folks need to quit thinking stuff is better just because it’s exotic (or “exclusive,” in this article’s slightly unusual verbiage that I’m chalking up to the author being Swedish). Find the local equivalent – and there almost always is a local equivalent – and use that instead.
For example, this article suggests Hard Maple, Cherrybark Oak, Mockernut Hickory or Snakewood for North America, and Olive for Europe.
I agree. As a hobbyist woodworker and boat builder, I do everything with ordinary untreated construction lumber and plywood, reclaimed untreated lumber and plywood, and what I can get from people taking out trees.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the look of tropical hardwoods, but I don’t see how to justify their use at scale. And with however many billion people we have today, there is no such thing as small scale.
A lot depends on the boat, what it’s used for, it’s expected lifetime, and how long it stays in the water at any one time. For my purposes, future builds will use marine grade plywood (fir; nothing exotic) only for boats that I just leave in the water, and then only below the waterline. And maybe not even then. Depending on the boat, the price difference between marine and exterior grade might pay for a boat lift or rail system so that the boat never has extended periods in the water.
This seemed like a big win until I saw the graph. Holy shit either reporting changed alot, or there’s a long way to go before things are even remotely okay.
In addition to the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, other protected species whose habitat would be destroyed by the highway include Western yellow-billed cuckoos, Yuma Ridgway’s rails, Southwestern willow flycatchers and Pima pineapple cactus.
If you follow the link to the original post, I’ve got pictures of all these animals and the cactus!
Feel free to check out all the other owl content too!
However, Mrs Strapp said a solution was still needed to stop possums nesting under solar panels and prevent burns from hot rooftops in the first place.
I can’t speak to the hot surfaces, but around here screening the edges of rooftop solar panels is standard procedure to prevent bats and wasps from taking up residence underneath.
Have we considered trying to breed an army of wolverines to fight against climate change? We could at the very least unleash them on Wall Street and other financial districts
Betcha those arrogant SOBs on Wall St think they can take a wolverine in a fight, so we probably don’t even need to teach them to attack, we just need someone to goad the dbags into attacking the wolverines.
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