Excerpt from this story from Science Friday:
Flint Hills rancher Daniel Mushrush estimates that his family has killed maybe 10,000 trees in the past three years.
It’s a start. But many more trees still need to fall for the Mushrushes to save this 15,000 acres of rare tallgrass prairie.
Whenever other work on the property can wait, Daniel and his brother, Chris, don helmets and earplugs, grab their tools and pick up where they left off.
“It’s a lot of old-fashioned chainsaw work,” Daniel Mushrush said. “Walking rocky ridges and cutting down trees.”
The Mushrush family is beating back a juggernaut unleashed by humans — a Green Glacier of trees and shrubs grinding slowly across the Great Plains and burying some of the most threatened habitat on the planet.
This blanket of shrublands and dense juniper woods gobbling up grassland leads to wildfires with towering flames that dwarf those generated in prairie fires.
It also eats into ranchers’ livelihoods. It smothers habitat for grassland birds, prairie fish and other critters that evolved for a world that’s disappearing. It dries up streams and creeks. New research even finds that, across much of the Great Plains, the advent of trees actually makes climate change worse.
Now a federal initiative equips landowners like Mushrush with the latest science and strategies for saving rangeland, and money to help with the work.
Satellite imagery and a better understanding of how trees and shrubs spread could help landowners replace a losing game of whack-a-mole with a more systematic course.
Mushrush calls the approach, promoted by the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Great Plains Grassland Initiative with guidance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a morale builder.
“It works,” the third-generation rancher said. “We’re still overwhelmed with how to do this on 15,000 acres — but we have a plan.”
Each time he thinks about the Manhattan area, which is much more infested with juniper woods and seas of sumac, wild plum and dogwood thickets, he feels the threat creeping toward his home in Chase County.
“If a coral reef is worth saving, if some pristine mountain stream is worth saving, then so are the Flint Hills,” he said. “It’s not easy work, but it’s worthy work.”
So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.
What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.
Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.
Hi! Today I want to share with you a cc pack I have been planning since last year and I am sure you will get where this idea came from.
Since lockdown 2 years ago many of us had to improvise a workspace at home, and since our Sims can work from home as well, I thought they needed some pieces to create a little but functional office in their houses.
Set of electric wheelchair poses for your Sims 4 game. I hope you enjoy! 💙
5 poses total
The Sims 4 in-game poses
Place the teleporter(s) in the middle of the wheelchair
you’ll need:
pose player
teleport any sim
electric wheelchair by @tns-ts4
Download: katverse.com
TOU | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE | KO-FI ☕
Happy New Year!
Meet FREJA NURSERY – a collection of (somewhat random) functional and decorative nursery items. This set began with the hanging chair idea which was proposed by one of my patrons, and it grew into this boho-vibes collection. This time I also made a little preview video with the objects – so excited to finally share it!
Here’s what you get:
Hanging chair (3 different heights), 30 swatches, 600§
Hanging herbs and flowers (3 different heights), 4 swatches, 300§
Toddler bed frame, 8 swatches, 200§
Toddler bed mattress, 12 swatches, 200§
Dresser, 8 swatches, 600§
Wicker pouf, 30 swatches, 200§
Suitcases (end table), 6 swatches, 200§
Faux fur rug, 10 swatches, 300§
Décor - tapestry, 6 swatches, 350§
Décor - crib, 30 swatches, 250§
Some more info & credits:
Base game compatible
New meshes, all LODs
Custom specular & normal maps
Custom catalog thumbnails, tagged swatches
Credit to Spirashun for the separated toddler bedframes and mattresses which I used as a base. Thank you!
Swatches come from my personal palette & from @peacemaker-ic Cool Contemporary palette
Wicker and fur textures are created by me in Procreate, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
You can search for "freja" or "myshunosun" in the buy catalog to quickly access these items. I am so excited for you to try this set out – enjoy! Wishing you a happy 2022!
@maxismatchccworld @s4library @sssvitlanz @mmfinds
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UPDATE 03.01.2021: the medium height hanging chair now has the correct mesh height. Please re-download the file and replace it in your Mods folder! :)
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UPDATE 07.01.2021: I noticed that the hanging chairs aren't displayed correctly when zoomed out, or if you're playing the game on lower graphics settings. The issue is now fixed - please re-download the files :)
Here it is the third and final part of spoons and the last set of 2021!This past month I have been focusing on creating items that work perfectly in a restaurant setting. Of course I know not everyone wants to build restaurants, so the large majority of the items included would also work perfectly in other community lots or your Sims’ homes too.
Set includes:
Sectional Sofa (30 swatches in woven & leather textures)
Host Station (Requires Dine Out GP)
Corner Booth (Requires Dine Out GP)
Straight Booth (Requires Dine Out GP)
Restaurant Tables (1 tile, 2 tile, 3 tile & 6 seater round)
Bar (4 tiles)
Hanging Strip Light (Tall, Medium & Short)
Modern Wooden Panelling Wallpaper
Modern Art Canvases (3 pieces)
I can confirm that the booths do require Dine Out to be fully functional, but they will place down in your game and snap to tables if you only have base game. Unfortunately the interactions and animations are all tide to the GP, so they will be purely decorative if you don’t have Dine Out installed.
Public release: 3rd January
Can’t wait to meet Caldarus sooonnn!!
- TOP / BOTTOM
- NEW MESH
- ALL LODS
- NORMAL MAP / SPECULAR MAP
- 15 / 15 SWATCHES
- HQ COMPATIBLE
Sorry, sorry, but manipulative hurt/comfort is fucking cocaine to me. The predatory aspect of it. The vulnerability—500% better if the hurt party knows they're being manipulated and is past the point of caring. The juxtaposition of sweet and sharp flavours. Barkbarkbark
Desert at Dusk (1928) by Audley Dean Nicols