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magicbastarder wrote: »if you're someone who listens to podcasts, you definitely should listen to the critter shed. comes with an occasional adult humour warning.
one of the hosts, collie, has probably more pet spiders than anyone else in the country.
https: me. //play.acast.com/s/the-critter-shed
Thank you but no interest in any podcasts. Thankfully, from your description! There are more than enough creepie crawlies out here.... Looking at a huge new cobweb above my bed :eek: Now where it that brush?
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That was a lovely read for a Friday evening. (I can feel a ‘poetic’ rant coming on, please feel free to skip a few paragraphs, :pac: )
Quote from the article, “Wilderness is where you can gaze to the far horizon without seeing a thing that man hath wrought, or hearing anything but the wind and the birds.....a stillness and tundra-like sense of space, a mystery of mountains, a pristine bowl of stars.”
This genuinely reminds me of my commute in the mornings... As you pass the crest of Muckish Mountain, you’re greeted by the stirring crimson sun over a vast, chestnut coloured, wilderness carpet of heath and heather and if you are ever so lucky, the sight of a young stag, sauntering casually through your ‘motorway’ winding backroad to work.
Now that I’ve channeled my inner Graces7,
, back to the nitty gritty of the article.
“figures released to the online Green News show that Coillte had planted some 260,000 conifers in the Wild Nephin area since 2014 and harvested about the same amount.
Most were lodgepole pine, whose tangle of self-regenerating, uneconomic trees had sparked the first thought of Wild Nephin. Coillte also planted just 25,000 native seedlings, mostly birch, rowan and alder.”
Did Coillte ever give an explanation for this? Was there a transition period, to make short term profits maybe, while natives take longer to grow?
“Comparing the Mayo project with wilderness projects in the UK, Spain and America, he urges more direct participation of local communities in Wild Nephin’s official planning team, quoting the success of BurrenBeo in conserving the wild landscape of Co Clare.”
Local support is paramount, I think opinions are changing, I think people are seeing the wider environmental picture.
A highly inspiring experience I’ve had was when visiting New Zealand. They take environmental care to the next level! Their environmental protection program is awe inspiring. In almost every area, they have identified and earmarked a ‘natural, native’ space and stamped it with a green conservation stamp. There is statutory protection in law for these spaces. Every town we visited had such a site, a forest, lake, or natural native space, with toilet, cooking and camping/ accommodation facilities. They had such pride in their heritage.
Wild Nephin, the native forest in the Dublin//Wicklow mountains (and although not entirely forested the old railway track across Muckish Mountain) and so many more stunning natural beauty spots, could have the same status, if our so called ‘green’ government looked a little further afield for inspiration.0 -
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mattcullen wrote: »That would be great to see. Would the deer not just eat the saplings though?
There are various types of 'guards' that can be used to help young trees get a start in life.....
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Of interest - I've not seen any recent report on the millions of trees planted as part of the Millennium forest project. Where every citizen got a tree certificate for the tree planted for them.
Those forests should now be twenty years old. Afair 'my' tree was somewhere up the Wiclow mountains.
Those forests were/are conventional Sitka (or similar) plantations, as far as I can remember.
At year 20, they'd be at or about first thinning stage, so between the racks and selection, 25-33% will be coming out to give the better specimens room to grow.
Edit:
DISREGARD MUCH OF THE ABOVE!!!
A bit of rudimentary research tells me that these forests were "native Irish saplings", so I don't know where I got the softwoods thing I wrote above.
So, at year 20, they'll probably have had some formative shaping and their first thinning will, depending on species, be being planned for the fairly near future.
I'd expect these plantations will be managed under some variation of Continuous Cover.
https://www.millenniumforests.com/index.html0 -
Of interest - I've not seen any recent report on the millions of trees planted as part of the Millennium forest project. Where every citizen got a tree certificate for the tree planted for them.
Those forests should now be twenty years old. Afair 'my' tree was somewhere up the Wiclow mountains.
Thanks Gozunda. I must have been really naive to think we were heading in the right direction for once and doing something positive for a change.
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SnowyMuckish wrote: »Thanks Gozunda. I must have been really naive to think we were heading in the right direction for once and doing something positive for a change.
How do you mean Snowy?
Edit. Must take a look for the tree certificate. I think it detailed the type of tree? But these were definitely native Irish trees which were planted.0 -
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