Rapai et al. 2017. examining the role of terrestrial lichen transplants in restoring woodland caribou winter habitat (drive.google.com)
ABSTRACT...
Native Seed Network Takes Root in the Northeast (www.resilience.org)
Cool article about seed banks. We really need to start creating and using them
Dam Removal on the Klamath River (January 2024 updates) (www.americanrivers.org)
American Rivers has some new (as of a month ago) videos of the Copco 1 and J.C. Boyle dams being breached. I’m really excited to see how the Klamath river responds to these dams being removed....
How beavers can fully revitalise a farm (yt.artemislena.eu)
Why this is a pivotal moment for Hanford’s nuclear waste cleanup (www.seattletimes.com)
reforestation in the Sahara (youtu.be)
A good example of rough mounding benefits.
Reforestation efforts create cooling and buffering of temperature in SE United States (www.theguardian.com)
Apex predators not a quick fix for restoring ecosystems, 20-year study finds (phys.org)
A 20-year experiment conducted by Colorado State University researchers in Yellowstone National Park found that restoring apex predators like wolves was not a quick fix for ecosystems degraded by their absence. While wolf reintroduction lowered elk populations, willows and aspens did not recover as strongly as expected even...
What ecological impact will you have? (yt.artemislena.eu)
New gold rush flattens Johannesburg's famous mining dumps (2014 Article) (www.foxnews.com)
Good article that shows how mine dumps can be reclaimed to support human use (drive in) and how re-mining of wastes can be feasible in some cases
Alberta's oilsands reclamation bonding 'unfit for purpose,' researchers say (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/5492769...
“How I'm Restoring Native Bush to Boost Biodiversity – and Hope” (www.rewildingmag.com)
Silvia Pinca purchased 80 acres of land in New Zealand that was previously used as a pine plantation. She is working to rewild the land by removing invasive species like pines, pampas grass, and banana passionfruit and replanting native trees and shrubs. So far she has removed over 32,000 pines and planted hundreds of native...
Curran 2023 - Soil stockpile age does not impact vegetation establishment in a cold, arid natural gas field (slrpnk.net)
Pietrzykowski et al,. (2013) Preliminary assessment of growth and survival of green alder (Alnus viridis), a potential biological stabilizer on fly ash disposal sites (www.researchgate.net)
AbstractThis paper presents preliminary assessment of seedling survival and growth of green alder (Alnus viridis (Chaix) DC. in Lam. & DC.) planted on fly ash disposal sites. This kind of post-industrial site is extremely hard to biologically stabilize without top-soiling. The experiment started with surface preparation using...
Mine Reclamation in Appalachia (www.livingcarbon.com)
Deforestation and reforestation rates around the world (www.visualcapitalist.com)
EU lawmakers agree to restore 20% of the EUs land and sea ecosystems by 2030 and all in need of restoration by 2050 (www.euractiv.com)
Indonesia converts plantations to forest (www.ecowatch.com)
Depleted Groundwater Could Be Refilled by Borrowing a Trick from Solar Power (www.scientificamerican.com)
They're bringing back a lost species after 2000 years... (yt.artemislena.eu)
In Pit Mine Waste Disposal as part of Reclamation and Closure
I saw an article the other day slamming the use of end pit lakes in mining. I think it’s relatively easy to have a strong opinion an aspect of mining like this, and mining in general....
I genuinely want you all to watch this (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/8863969...
More than carbon sticks - Nature Water (www.nature.com)
Biosolids used to reclaim SI landfill (lemmy.world)
They released Beavers to London! here’s what happened... (piped.video)
