HeyJaredNerdy About Nature
Nature sure is neat, huh? Fun facts, deep thoughts, insight, and ideas for a better tomorrow on this world we all share. 📍Coast Salish & Nuučaan̓uł Lands, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦
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Don’t Escape Just Yet! Save the Places we Love to Escape to! (opens the original)
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Not sure about y’all, but I’ve found social media and the entire news cycle these days totally and completely overwhelming.One of the best things I’ve found to clear my mind from it all is getting out into nature amongst some of the last, great, wild places left in North America…but the problem is that if we disconnect entirely and stop paying attention, as great as that all may sound for our mental health, we’ll end up losing these outdoor spaces we all love and depend on so much.Amongst all th
Ongoing Oldgrowth Logging Threatens Our Shared Future (opens the original)
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Trees like this ancient Western Redcedar can be thousands of years old, forming structural complexities that host all sorts of biodiversity, and the ecosystems they form hold all sorts of complexity that performs numerous ecological functions. This diversity and complexity of these forests not only help prevent anthropogenic climate change from getting worse, but they help mitigate the impacts we’re already feeling to create healthy lands, waters, and communities who depend on it all.With all th
Old Growth Vs. 2nd Growth Forest & The Merits of Ecological Forest Restoration: Wildfire Resilience (opens the original)
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From a multi-layered canopy that shades and cools the forest to diverse understory complexity that stores moisture, the complex structure of a mature old growth forest makes these ecosystems naturally resilient to large-scale fires.Yet when mature forests are clearcut logged through industrial practices, that complexity is lost, and the forest dries out. While clearcutting claims to replicate disturbances like fire, but that is entirely false - naturally occurring low to mid intensity fires tend
Be Like Water & Keep On Flowing (opens the original)
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There’s a lot happening in the world today, and it’s incredibly easy to feel completely helpless, insignificant, or unable to actually make any lasting positive change. Yet, the landscapes we live amongst can give us insight on moving forward.Change is constant in life, and it can be either violently sudden or glacially slow, expected or not, but regardless change is and always will be happening in one way or another - take this river for example.Tectonic forces metamorphosed the bedrock here ov
Extreme Heat Events Are Pushing Forests Past Their Limits (opens the original)
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5 years after the 2021 heat dome event and we’re just starting to understand how it impacted our forests, and what that means for all of us moving forward.These forests of Cascadia are no stranger to heat, but the heat dome of 2021 was a uniquely rare and extreme event brought on by various climate-driven factors, that many tree species in the region are simply not able to withstand. Many trees died off as a result, which was initially chalked up to drought…yet further research found that this e
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