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No, I'm not making this up... er, well, maybe I am. But it's fun. Read it and see.
New installment here
Cumulative word cound: 19930
Went to the Audubon meeting to hear a conservation district guy talk about restoration, which was actually interesting mostly because he admitted that no one really knows what they are doing.
It got even more interesting when we got to the Q&A period and someone asked him about oak savannas, which is one of his specialties. I actually understood what he was saying and the theories he advanced. In short, bur oak savannas are not expanding or reproducing here at all. It turns out that the reason is white footed mice, who eat all the acorns. No, not squirrels, but mice. He has all the evidence. Yet the oak, the squirrel, the mouse have all co-existed for millennia. One natural predator of mice that was widespread here a century ago is missing today: the gray wolf! Another even bigger mouse-eater is even less likely to be successfully reintroduced: the Massassauga rattlesnake. All very interesting.
And it snowed more today. None of it lasted though.
New installment here
Cumulative word cound: 19930
Went to the Audubon meeting to hear a conservation district guy talk about restoration, which was actually interesting mostly because he admitted that no one really knows what they are doing.
It got even more interesting when we got to the Q&A period and someone asked him about oak savannas, which is one of his specialties. I actually understood what he was saying and the theories he advanced. In short, bur oak savannas are not expanding or reproducing here at all. It turns out that the reason is white footed mice, who eat all the acorns. No, not squirrels, but mice. He has all the evidence. Yet the oak, the squirrel, the mouse have all co-existed for millennia. One natural predator of mice that was widespread here a century ago is missing today: the gray wolf! Another even bigger mouse-eater is even less likely to be successfully reintroduced: the Massassauga rattlesnake. All very interesting.
And it snowed more today. None of it lasted though.
