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[Finchbearer]

Yeah…I wouldn’t eat the mushrooms I mentioned…

 

[BearBear]

Where's your sense of adventure!

 

[Finchbearer]

Down creek after eating one of those mushrooms

 

[BearBear]

 

[Finchbearer]

Either those mushrooms are really big or that bear is really small

 

[BearBear]

Looks like juvenile bear but those mushrooms are probably 8-10 inches

 

[Finchbearer]

The scariest predator we have over here is probably a badger, or a stoat maybe. Scarier things are all the plants and fungi that can kill you.

 

[Ban]

The scariest predator we have over here is probably a badger, or a stoat maybe. Scarier things are all the plants and fungi that can kill you.

Few years ago I could say the same, but now we have wolves and jackals again.

 

[Finchbearer]

Few years ago I could say the same, but now we have wolves and jackals again.

That is exciting. Like lynx’s in Spain.

 

[Ban]

That is exciting. Like lynx’s in Spain.

It is. Farmers are upset because the wolves have been killing their sheep, but I think we'll figure out a balance in time.

 

[BearBear]

I'm the only Bear in 100 miles but we do have pumas, mountain lions, and they're really dangerous. They say you never see one and when you do it's too late.

They tracked one and it basically went everywhere from the beach to the mountains hundreds of mile range.

We also have lynx but they're not interested in people. We have a ton of coyotes who have been known to gang up on people. You can here them at night sounding like jackles.

 

[Finchbearer]

It is. Farmers are upset because the wolves have been killing their sheep, but I think we'll figure out a balance in time.

Then this opens up the entire conversation on the concept of ‘rewilding’, and I could be here for days talking about it. I think they should introduce lynx into Scotland, but again, too many land owners and farmers take concern over the perceived financial ramifications.

 

[Ban]

Then this opens up the entire conversation on the concept of ‘rewilding’, and I could be here for days talking about it. I think they should introduce lynx into Scotland, but again, too many land owners and farmers take concern over the perceived financial ramifications.

We didn't so much rewild when it comes to the wolves and jackals. Such projects have been underway for a long time with Konik horses and highland cattle (to emulate wild cattle and horses), but the aforementioned wolves and jackals simply migrated from Germany. It's a good sign for our reemerging wilderness, but they didn't need to be introduced.

 

[BearBear]

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

 

[pmmg]

Rewilding sounds like an oxymoron. If its wild...shouldn't it kind of show up on its own? Rewild sounds like re-stocked some area.

 

[BearBear]

Sich einen abbrechen

 

[Finchbearer]

Rewilding sounds like an oxymoron. If its wild...shouldn't it kind of show up on its own? Rewild sounds like re-stocked some area.

In environments where it’s usually highly man-made, when native species (either flora of fauna) are reintroduced and let do their own thing, that usually gets called ‘rewilding’. But it’s a problematic terms for a variety of reasons I think.

 

[Ban]

Rewilding sounds like an oxymoron. If its wild...shouldn't it kind of show up on its own? Rewild sounds like re-stocked some area.

Rewilding is about recreating specific conditions that were found in our past. And no amount of waiting would ever have reintroduced wild cattle and horses into the Netherlands, as there is no way they'd wander into our country. Same with lynxes in Scotland. You can wait for decades and not a single one will ever cross the Channel.

 

[BearBear]

There will come a day when all non-human mammals larger than a dog will be extinct, it's theorized by some conservationists that it will happen by mid-late century. These are just estimates though, anything can happen. However, everything must serve the greater good of capitalism which believe it or not has done more to bring developed worlds out of poverty than any other system. Capitalism = plenty, for humans.

Don't even think for a minute that the production machines can ever end, and they have the most potency, historically driven by the gears of capitalism. This includes the machines of war. We'll see how China does in this the greatest of all wars we find ourselves on the brink of. Take a deep breath, enjoy the moment, smell the air free of fuel and munitions and the bitter toxic smoke of the war machines. Morality, environmental policy, equity are all peacetime endeavors, they are not the true nature of man, they are not how we got here in the last great golden age of the lands of plenty. The victors of the last great war will not do so on moral grounds. The winner will do so by any means necessary, sparing no expense, and with no mercy, because on the darkest hour, the true nature of man is revealed as it has been shown countless times in history.

But I will pass along this advice: don't hate the enemy, save all your vitriol and hatred for the war and use all that energy to help it end quickly by any means because nobody wins the war of attrition, those wounds never heal.

Solar eclipse this Saturday!

 

[Finchbearer]

George Monbiot’s Feral has some interesting observations. Across the Atlantic I’m always a fan of Wendell Berry.