The stump ranchers: How #Merville lost its #trees. The #logging and #colonial settlement history of the #Comox Valley helps us understand why the coastal #DouglasFir #ecosystem is now #endangered.
https://thediscourse.ca/comox-valley/the-stump-ranchers-how-merville-lost-its-trees
Dead #trees are not wasted timber dollars - they are sources of food for literally thousands of beings in a #forest #ecosystem, from tiny microscopic beings to insectivorous birds. Standing dead trees are known as snags, while a fallen dead trees are nurse logs. A cut or natural stump can serve the same #ecological function as a #NurseStump.
Nature wastes nothing. If there is a nutrient source to be had, there is a being to benefit from it. Nurse logs, standing snags & nurse stumps play hosts to all sorts of mosses, lichens, fungi, insects & arthropods, many hidden deep inside, as well as other living beings that prey on them.
Nurse #stumps are still deeply rooted; new plant, tree & fungi life grows out of their tops. Nurse stumps & dead stumps that have no new growth atop are like anchor systems for living trees growing in forests. You destabilize the ecosystem when you remove them from their natural #environment.
This is not progress.
This is not civilized.
We need to protect remaining #OldGrowth #AncientForests. They're our 2nd largest #CarbonSinks - after the giant kelp forests in the oceans. #Clearcutting forests should be banned.
As #DemocraticParty #VicePresidential #Nominee #TimWalz #stumps in #York #Pennsylvania #postdebate, we #talk to #voters
Walz draws #votes from #voters in the historically #Republican #county
https://www.witf.org/2024/10/02/as-walz-stumps-in-york-post-debate-we-talk-to-voters/
Last new one for tonight is the long promised, maximally niche Fuckerpants design
https://mrcompletely.myspreadshop.com/fuckerpants?idea=666e437fdbf10612845718af
There's almost zero #OldGrowth #trees left in #GorgePark - except for their #stumps.
Rotting into a Picasso
#picasso
#photography
#digitalart
#trees
#fungus
#stumps
@Cheeseness let's create more of those #habitats --> "#Skinks enjoy large areas with a lot of leaves and soft soil. They are normally found around hot and dusty areas that have many #trees and #stumps."
Whatcha gonna do with all that junk
All that junk inside your trunk
I'ma get get get get you sunk
Hold some carbon with my stump
My stump my stump my stump my stump my stump
My stump my stump my stump my lovely wooden lumps
(my apologies for the ear worm, if you know this song)
I was really depressed seeing countless #OldGrowth #tree #stumps all over North #VancouverIsland . Like an endless graveyard of ancient forests. Hurt my #nature loving heart a lot. These are 2 of too many OG stumps scattered all over #vanisle North. They're clearcutting more of the last OGs on North Island as I type. These are #CrimesAgainstHumanity & #ecocide crimes by #BCNDP #NewDeathParty & enablers.
Good #evening everyone 
Todays #fungifind 
Deer Shield / Mushroom! (Pluteus cervinus)
The Deer Shield is a #wood-rotting fungus that occurs mainly on hardwood #stumps. This fungus can appear at any time from late #spring through to late #autumn.
Although its caps are usually fawn or light brown, like the coat of a young #deer (referred to as a 'fawn' regardless of its colour!), some authorities say that the common name comes not from the #brown colour of the #cap but from antler-like horn-shaped protrusions on apex of the gill-face #cystidia (known as pleurocystidia) that can be seen under a #microscope!
#fungioftheday #deershield #wood #gills #horns #deermushroom #toadstool #fungi #mushroom #nature #deadwood #mastodonmushrooms #mastodon #mastoart #mycodon #bracket #mosstodon #mycology #fungiverse #fungus #mushroomsofmastodon #nature
#fungifacts #mushrooms #plants #fungikingdom #mastodonmushroom
