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Coho

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The wilderness is where i feel most at home. Far northern California is my home hiking/backpacking turf. Watershed restoration, salmon habit, CA native plants, are passions. Advocate peaceful solutions for living with bears, and other wildlife as neighbors , ( = human behavior modification)
Play fiddle, Irish, French Canadian, Brazilian Choro music.
I hike with cats,
Kind of a backpacking gear junkie

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Coho, to random
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I frequently come across a naive attitude toward invasive plants. "Nature knows what she's doing, survival of the fittest etc."
It's not like that. Plants evolve in communities over millennia. Plant communities evolve with insect , and animal communities, and balance is what keeps everything thriving.
Plant communities are like the bacteria communities in our digestive tracks. If Giardia, Ecoli, candida etc were to take over, it wreaks havoc with the whole body. They start colonizing the digestive track and overwhelming the system. It's hard to function. If the balance isn't restored, you may feel chronically ill, you feel like a shadow of your former self. You might even die.
The exact same thing happens to a meadow when a fast moving invasive grass, like Avena Fatua gets introduced.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Good.

But as I've said before, roid rage isn't a real thing. It's not.

I've never taken steroids. I don't need them. But a lot of people I train with do take steroids and other PEDs.

Angry violent little men want to commit violence, but can't shake anything at a buck fifty. So they take steroids.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/29/nypd-union-sues-adams-administration-over-new-zero-tolerance-policy-on-steroid-use-among-cops/

Coho,
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@mekkaokereke
I'm not sure about that. I have a friend that was put on steroids for a genetic lung ailment. He's by nature a calm, chill individual, but he hated being on the steroids because of distressing side effects. He said the worst was dramatic personality changes that made him feel angry all the time

Coho, to random
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To my great amusement a third Tribe in South Dakota just banned governor Kristi Noem from tribal lands
Ha ha ha
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Coho, to random
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I am not happy with REI's hard nosed union busting activity. It's time to cancel my 30+ year membership
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rei-fired-manager-union-campaign_n_660b0c31e4b007c08f9e7a99

Coho, to random
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We could have told you
New study shows dogs understand the meaning of some nouns.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/22/dogs-understand-meaning-nouns-research-finds

msquebanh, (edited ) to nature
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Time spent in the forest, is time well spent.

Coho,
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@msquebanh
Those boardwalk trails on Vancouver Island are so cool. I haven't been hiking or backpacking up there in a long time.

Coho, to random
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My small rural far Northern California town is searching for a veterinarian......thriving established business opportunity
Our local veterinarian is retiring in March. They are the only walk in, no appointment needed, vet in the county. The next closest vet is 60 miles away. They've advertised for seven years, for someone to take over the thriving business. No luck.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/26/us-vet-shortage-pets-health

Coho, to random
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That would be so much fun!!!!! Grab your kayak, and paddle the massive temporary lake in Death Valley
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/kayak-death-valley-lake-rain-california

rmishra, to plants
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It's very rewarding to see what these native plants bring to our gardens. My garden at this time is 60% native. Will be 100% native in the next 2–3 years. Cardinal Flower-Humming bird magnet and Great Blue Lobelia from last summer.
@plants @nativeplants
@nativeplants @nationalparks
Appreciate a boost if you love wildlife and native habitat.

Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower

Coho,
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@rmishra @plants @nativeplants @nativeplants @nationalparks
The lobelia is stunning! Thank you for converting your garden to natives

Coho, to random
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A group of senior mountain climbing, hiking women, sue Switzerland over climate change. Their case could send shockwaves across the continent.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/27/we-have-a-responsibility-the-older-women-suing-switzerland-to-demand-climate-action

Coho, to random
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What lovely surprising news, in the wolf hating west......Colorado just released it's first five wolves into a remote location. More will be released in the coming months
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/20/colorado-reintroduce-wolf-endangered-species

Coho, to random
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Omg!!!!!!!! never thought I'd see this in my lifetime! Doing a happy dance, tears of joy, can hardly believe it. A few days ago the Maidu people and Ca Dept Fish and Wildlife have released the first beavers in the beaver restoration program
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vDRLHuPQwkI

Coho, to random
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Not many know about northern CA 365 mile newly established Bigfoot Trail, and a crew of dedicated volunteers who open up and brush overgrown sections. Not many people hike the whole trail, , a handful a yr. But it's on my bucket list.
https://kymkemp.com/2023/12/01/bigfoot-trail-alliance-clearing-backcountry-trails-across-northern-california/

Coho, to random
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Following the 4 dam removals on the Klamath river, and restoration plan closely. Local tribes collected a phenomenal 19 BILLION local ca native plant seeds from 98 species to revegetate the project. Our local tribes do stuff in a well thought out, big way, reintroduction of endangered species like condors, reintroduction of cultural fire, instrumental in getting the dams removed, + collecting 19 billion native seeds to reveg the project. Continual source of inspiration.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2023/11/27/klamath-river-dams-removal-gives-some-native-people-hope-homelands-california-oregon/71247296007/

seachanger, to Alaska
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boarding the state ferry Columbia tonight at 3 am with my truck and my dog and heading 1300 miles down the inside passage of AK and BC as i have been doing for the last 20 years or so. i will live toot when i have service because for me, the alaska state ferries are a kind of church and i am a kind of fundamentalist and missionary

Coho,
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@seachanger
Yikes! That's terrible about the landslide, i hope no one was hurt.

Coho,
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@seachanger
I saw a recent update, what a devastating nightmare for Wrangell.

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm taking a hard political stance, and I'm sorry if you get offended, but if it was never boiled, it's not a bagel, it's just bread with a hole.

Coho,
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@RickiTarr
An unboiled bagel is a boring doughnut

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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Coho,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat 😂

sundogplanets, to random
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WHYYYYYY did I agree to give ANOTHER seminar tomorrow?! Putting that together now...

Case Western Reserve, coming to you, tomorrow! (...on Zoom).

Coho,
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@sundogplanets
Ugh,

evacide, to random
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If you have a uterus and you live in the UK, it's time to update your threat model to include police testing you for the presence of abortion meds and requesting data from period-tracking apps: https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/10/30/british-police-testing-women-for-abortion-drugs/

Coho,
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@evacide
This is so creepy, the war on women ramps up a notch

Coho, to animals
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I kept hearing a cat meowing this morning but couldn't find the source. Miss Kamala spent most of an hour shut inside the middle dresser drawer.

sundogplanets, to random
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In class today, I was talking about the 2006 IAU definition of a planet and Pluto getting reclassified as a dwarf planet, and a 4th year undergrad told me she remembered being really mad when that happened.

...While she was in preschool.

Coho,
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@sundogplanets
I was mad too, tho an adult

sundogplanets, to random
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In the grand scheme of things, this isn't that important. But why didn't anyone tell me earlier that you can make absolutely perfect, amazing mayonnaise with an immersion blender and a jar in 30 sec?!!

I have chickens, and I live literally across the street from hundreds of acres of canola*, I don't think I'll ever buy mayonnaise again.

*(I don't have any way to buy oil from across the street, and I see how much stuff they spray on so I don't want it, but local oilseed crops do exist)

Coho,
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@sundogplanets
A friend of mine has his own oil press, he uses it mostly for making flaxseed oil. Its small and can be mounted on a kitchen counter. I know people with olive oil presses too. Not that many decades ago people had home oil presses.

Coho,
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@sundogplanets
I just googled oil pressing machines. There's a lot of options. Turns out making homemade oil is popular in India, where oil presses are as common as blenders are here.

Green_Footballs, to random
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One of the first issues I had with Mastodon: the people who want you to put warnings on posts about politics.

No, sorry, I’m not going to do that, ever. If you want to ignore what’s going on in America right now, that’s your responsibility, not mine.

Coho,
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@Green_Footballs
I feel the same about postings of fellow sentient beings we share the planet with. I refuse to warn, hide and mark as sensitive, snakes, lizards, slugs, leeches, worms, spiders, bacteria, odd ocean dwellers, and insects who make up the majority of biomass on earth.

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