I discovered this group of people last week when I was looking to see what I could do help with planting trees.
Copy and paste from their site:
" Trees for Life is an award-winning charity working to restore Scotland's Caledonian Forest. Our vision is to restore natural forests and rare wildlife to a spectacular wilderness region of the Scottish Highlands, including our 10,000 acre Dundreggan Conservation Estate.
Our work is about people as much as places. Our conservation work is carried out by volunteers and funded by generous donors, charitable trusts, corporate supporters and people who dedicate a tree or grove."
And yes, I started a grove of trees with direct debit to plant 10 trees a month, 120 per year.
Once, a mere 5000 years ago, only a blink in the chronological scale of the Earth, forests covered the Highlands, covering Scotland almost 50% in woods. What Pliny the Elder called silva caledonia now is only a hundredth of the size of ages past, and the many animals and plants that once inhabited the great woods are extinct in the UK or barely surviving. Where once wolves, bears and lynxes roamed freely and stabilised the ecology of the region through their predatory position, now herbivores such as deer dominate the region to harmful extents. At first glance, what does this matter? Predators such as bears and lynxes were dangerous to human populations were they not? Eliminating them has surely saved human lives, and is that not the most cogent point?
Yet, much like was observed in Yellowstone, the impact of lack of proper predation has much more far reaching impacts than mere deer overpopulation in itself. The overpopulation of deer has deeply damaged the soil and plant life, the soil itself is less fertile and cannot maintain nutrients as well. Why is this? Because these ecosystems are delicate lines of dominos, and the removal of predators led to deer overpopulation, which caused overgrazing. Overgrazing in this manner kept the shrub layer from being properly developed, which led to the elimination of many habitat spaces for small animals. This overgrazing, in tandem with the lack of tree cover (which prevents rainfall being intercepted and transpired in great enough quantities), leads to soil becoming waterlogged and eroding far faster. This waterlogging and erosion has led to the dangerous growth of bogs unsuitable to native species, and which make reforestation more difficult.
I want to put this in perspective: removing the natural predators is causing the very land they lived on to change. It is this truth, demonstrated here and proved in Yellowstone, that leads to the conclusions found in the RSP manifesto: that all life is inextricably interconnected and equally in need of liberation from the clutches of capitalist expansion. Should the ecological degradation of Scotland continue unabated, more species will be driven to extinction, and the land will continue to degrade further into disrepair. In this falling line of dominos, humanity are only a few more down the line. In killing these animals, and the woods themselves, we began the slow poisoning of the entire UK. The unfettered growth of peat and blanket bogs will continue to make any future
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When asked to imagine the wilds of Scotland, most imagine the rugged treeless glen or heather clad cragginess. A beautiful but empty landscape. However, only a short time before living memory, the land was dotted with great and ancient forests, themselves the fractured remnants of the once vast and almost contiguous Caladonian Pinewoods, stretching over the entire Highlands, from the Irish to the North Sea. Today just 1% of the original wildwood remains, impoverished and decrepit stands of aged trees. But recent years have seen great efforts made by various groups to attempt to preserve and restore the last fragments of forest. One long term goal is the linking of some northern remnants into a new 2000 square kilometer forest, one of the largest areas in Britain not bisected by a road. It would become the largest contiguous forest in Europe, eventually facilitating the reintroduction of large carnivores such as the wolf and bear. The land itself is pretty unproductive, generally used for sheep grazing or dear and grouse hunting. With sheep grazing declining in profitability and currently only made viable through large EU subsidies and dear and grouse hunting not being incompatible with rewilding projects, I see little in the way of such a vision. Imagine the potential tourist revenue, a new, but thriving wild forest unrivaled in its unspoiled beauty by anything else on the continent. The effects of simple work like sheep removal, dear culling and fencing are astounding, with trees sprouting from previousley barren hillsides within years, and a young forest clearly bursting into life within the decade. Anyway, enough of my waffling, links:
http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/ Trees for Life, the guys who started off the movement in the 90's. Awesome photos on the results page. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdTm6UcmCn8 A video of theirs.
http://www.carrifran.org.uk/ Carrifran Wildwood, a new wood in a treeless valley in the lowlands. Shows what is possible in such a short time, more recent photos are available on google.
http://reforestingscotland.org/ Scottish reforestation hub.
Anyway, hope someone else finds the subject as interesting as I have.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I'm going to do the Northumbria coastal walk (62 mile walk) in March. I'm guessing it will take around 4-5 days since I'll also be enjoying the scenery and having a poke about shops, landmarks etc. Then in June I have a week long camping trip planned for the Caledonian forests just slightly northwest of Ben Nevis. How do I stay clean when camping for 5-7 days?
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
I'm trying to do a low-buy month, so I'm reviewing a bunch of samples and bottles I've been resting and testing!
ALKEMIA
I love this house. I have had some misses with it: the cake note in Gateux Anniversaire goes mayonnaisey, the ambers (in Ghost Fire) are sometimes waxy, and some scents I have trouble picking up. But the hits are AMAZING and some of my all-time favorites, (Silken Tent! La Belle Epoque! Sigil!). Also, whoever picks their free samples is a psychic wizard, which always makes placing an order exciting. I placed this order mainly because I was excited to check out a bunch of their Arcanum Experiments -- they're only $9 for a 5 mL!!
Sigil - A recipe in an ancient 16th century grimoire that includes olibanum frankincense, lignum aloes, bdellium, styrax, black honey, and euphorbium; the essence of "Stones of Immortality" - opium thebaicum, dried citrus, and the quintessence of gold; and an alchemist's compounding of coffee beans and ritual herbs.
WOOO! This is a somewhat intimidating list of notes, but I learned a lot from looking them up! And true to description, this is a very complex scent. When wet Sigil has a fizzy aldehydic quality a lot of Alkemia scents have for me, but that exits on dry down, leaving this a truly gorgeous nnnf sorry I'm huffing my arm again. It's so well blended -- I can pick out opium and dried citrus, but otherwise it's a sweet haze of witchy incense. It's everything that's great about my favorite Alkemia perfumes -- it is beautifully complex, rich, delicious, and not too overwhelming. This was a free sample I received with my order, and I wound up full-sizing.
6/5 Magic potions 🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪🧪
Ambre Caramelise - Gourmand ambre blanc caramelized with slow, seductive swirls of brown sugar.
This is lovely! I like but didn't love Ghost Fire (Alkemia's very popular white amber) -- it was really faint on my skin. But this is a soft, sweet skin scent, really everything I wanted from Ghost Fire. I can faintly detect an ambery waxiness after a few hours, but it's not prominent and doesn't bother me. There's something that reminds me of a sunscreen I used to have (I have this experience a lot with perfumes that are a bit caramelly... now if I could just remember what the sunscreen was...).
3/5 Nostalgic beach days 🏖🏖🏖
Vanille Patchouli - Innocence lost. Purest vanilla seduced and despoiled by wild, dirty patchouli.
I had Alkemia's Smoke and Mirrors because I loved the sample I got, but a
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Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
