One of the main things that prevents our boreal forests from not teeming with life is winter kill. Deep snow prevents movement, access to food, and in the spring wolves run the crust and often kill more than they need. One potential reason why there was 100 times more pounds of animals than there was just 13,000 …
Sort of eerie but I Iike it.
WWF 2025 PLOWPRINT REPORT
WWF 2025 PLOWPRINT REPORT – A Pause in Analysis. 2024 Report Documented Nearly 2 million Acres of Grasslands Eliminated for Crops in the Great Plains World Wildlife Fund’s Plowprint Report monitors grasslands plow-up across the Great Plains, assesses agricultural impacts on biodiversity, and guides sustainable land use planning. Due to changes in the underlying government …
Native American names for “horse”
Dog, elk, deer? It seems the Natives were as challenged by naming things as the Euros were on landing. LOL
Paleo Human Summary
Homo sapiens first tried to leave Africa 100,000 years ago. But Neanderthals with larger brains repelled them from the Levant. At least six different human species roamed the planet 130,000 years ago. Sapiens were undistinguished. Homo juluensis (Big-headed People), discovered in 2024 in China, was possibly a seventh human species. Others were the Solo Man …
Scott 10 bore and Parker Barrels
The W. & C. Scott Premier 10-Bore and Its Trans-European Resurrection in .577 Nitro Express Conversion work, I assume. I am not sure how. Barrel replacement? Tricky work, for sure. Kicking off the new year with a bang, one of my favorite patterns I’ve ever worked on. Excuse the photos as I’m not a photographer. …
Teaching crows to annoy red hats.
A man on the internet has officially started the first biological war of 2026 by training an army of wild crows to attack anyone wearing a red hat. The user, known as “Biz Dave,” went viral this week for documenting his step-by-step process of weaponizing neighborhood birds against political slogans. Using a method called “Pavlovian …
Rocks falling from the sky.
…and we thought snow was bad. Lots more video online.
Angola
In southwestern Angola, an expanse of coastal plains comes to an abrupt end at a natural barrier. The Huíla plateau soars above the lowlands to elevations of around 2,300 meters (7,500 feet). The sharp transition results in dramatic landscapes and a sudden change from an arid environment to more-temperate climes. The serrated edge of the Huíla plateau …
Slots
I mentioned slot canyons before. They video does a good job of updating that post. For some reason , a minute is cut off. Full post of Meta.
