And yes, #WoodMeadows are my new jam. I’ll be writing more about them as a model for human activity creating biodiversity, in a democratic and engaging way. I am, to put it mildly, quite excited.
8 May 1661: in #Dublin, Bishop Jeremy Taylor preaches at the opening of #Parliament, he becomes vitriolic about 'criminally disobedient dissenters' #otd (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge) #Restoration.
New video! In the second part of the series, I'm trying to resurrect the Apple Macintosh Performa 630 Power Supply I found to have lots of leaky capacitors in the previous episode.
Can anyone recommend a #photo#restoration / preservation shop in #NYC? Going through storage found some historical photos from my grandfather’s WW1 service and would like to get them into a better state.
It's got just about warm enough to start hanging out in the barn so I'm back on with the pianola restoration! Just cleaning keys but I'll be tuning it soon!
Garden table restoration. This old folding table got smashed by a flying chair last autumn. I didn't have anything matching the original resin plate, but I did have a lot of wood packing spacers.
But they're all angled and vary in thickness. So I nailed them together, punched the nails down and then planed the planks.
Yes, a thickness planer would be lovely to have, but this worked. Some leftover wood stain and it looks nice.
The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land
For decades, the federal government has prioritized oil and gas drilling, hardrock mining and livestock grazing on public lands across the country.
That could soon change under a far-reaching Interior Department rule that puts #conservation, #recreation and #renewable#energy development on equal footing with resource extraction.
The final rule released Thursday represents a seismic shift in the management of roughly 245 million acres of public property
— about one-tenth of the nation’s land mass.
It is expected to draw praise from conservationists and legal challenges from fossil fuel industry groups and Republican officials,
some of whom have lambasted the move as a “land grab.”
Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, known as the nation’s largest landlord, has long offered leases to #oil and gas companies, #mining firms and #ranchers.
Now, for the first time, the nearly 80-year-old agency will auction off “#restoration leases” and “#mitigation leases” to entities with plans to restore or conserve public lands.
Helped my good mate @respraycatherine dismantle her c.1911 Swift Bicycle today - the first stage in any #restoration and nearly everything was as it should be thank goodness but we had to have a little giggle at the #chainlink !! #Swift#Cycles of #Coventry#LoopFrame#VintageCycles
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Increasing diversity and resilience, not to mention creating wetlands, are just some of the impacts beavers can have on their surroundings. What does this mean for the wider environment?
@HLBurdett &co advocate for prioritizing #environmental and #climate considerations to increase the sustainability of future #CoralReefs and open up opportunities for new restoration approaches.
Our peach tree has peach leaf curl. It's a fungal disease. A copper fungicide is the common treatment, and it can kill soil microorganisms. Instead, I'm relying on our long relationship. Our tree is shedding the damaged leaves and starting to grow new ones. My part is to help lighten that load. I gently twist off extra peaches from all winter honey bee visits. I feed the soil. Today is a load lightening day. #restoration#gardening
"Some of the rarest creatures in Britain have now made Knepp their home, including kingfishers, hazel dormice, scarce chaser dragonflies and purple emperor butterflies. The river has returned to its natural course and the soil is now storing as much #carbon per hectare as a 25-year-old plantation of trees does, according to recent tests."
"A global annual investment of just 1% of the world’s GDP – around $1tn – to pay farmers who choose to transition from cattle husbandry to #restoration and management of native #forests and #grasslands would significantly raise the income of cattle farmers and stimulate rural communities, while rapidly reducing global warming and reversing the global collapse of biodiversity. And that would be a bargain."
“Most of us love #nature and appreciate it for its beauty, but living in relation to land through ecosystem restoration, #stewardship or harvesting creates a different appreciation and perspective,” says Sarah Jim.
“Once I started seeing the land for who it was and who it was trying to be, that’s when I realized the ivy was not letting the land be who it was meant to be.”
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