Tag Archive: Environment


Wild over maintained forest…

Donald Trump threaten to sue Canada for not using high-powered toxic sprays over our forests to keep the grasses and stuff down. So smoke wouldn’t go over to them. Them wanted to sue us as nuisance feasers.

so,

Compared to landscapes dominated by chemical agriculture or managed forestry, a wild forest functioning without pesticide intervention provides significant hydrological, ecological, and biochemical advantages to local water systems.While wild forests release natural organic emissions (such as dissolved organic carbon, tannins, humic acids, and fallen plant debris) into surface water, these biological inputs act as structural assets rather than environmental pollutants.

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| Wild Forest Ecosystem | Pesticide-Controlled Area ||—|—|—|| Primary Chemical Inputs | Tannins, humic substances, natural organic carbon | Synthetic herbicides, insecticides, fungicides || Impact on Aquatic Life | Builds base food webs, creates micro-habitats | Risks bioaccumulation, endocrine disruption, toxicity || Soil & Water Retention | Deep root networks retain water and prevent erosion | Soil compaction increases runoff and sedimentation || Nutrient Cycling | Slow, balanced natural breakdown | High risk of nutrient spikes and oxygen depletion |Key Advantages of Wild Forest Systems

* Natural Biochemical Buffering:

Natural organic emissions like humic and fulvic acids lower stream pH slightly and bind with heavy metals, locking them out of biological uptake and buffering downstream waters against sudden chemistry shifts

* Complex Food Web Support:

Forest emissions—like leaf litter breakdown and coarse woody debris—supply the primary carbon base that aquatic macroinvertebrates (such as stonefly and caddisfly larvae) rely on. This foundational carbon fuels the entire food chain, supporting wild fish stocks. * Elimination of Bioaccumulation Risks: Synthetic pesticides, particularly persistent organic pollutants and systemic insecticides, do not break down rapidly in cold stream environments. Wild systems eliminate the risk of sub-lethal chemical exposures that disrupt aquatic insect emergence and fish navigation.

* Superior Hydrological Filtration:

Undisturbed forest soils retain high porosity and organic matter, acting as massive sponge-like filters. They slow down peak rain events, minimize soil erosion, and drop sediment loads compared to cleared or chemical-maintained landscapes.

* Thermal Regulation and Habitat Structural Diversity:

Wild forest canopies shade stream corridors, maintaining cold water temperatures critical for salmonids and native trout species, while fallen logs create deep pools and cover.While natural organic matter requires standard physical filtration when harvested for human municipal drinking water, it forms the fundamental framework of a self-sustaining, resilient freshwater ecosystem.

Well

Maybe we should have left Donald to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.PP

Comet Cleanser

Stay alert rely on Environment Canada.

Concept Photo

Predicts more accurately that severe part of a large storm warning…

Good luck, There is a link above to ECs new Alert for severe storms…

On this Day: August 26th 2002

The Earth summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg South Africa.

Two winter storm warnings

Merritt

There are two warnings from Environment Canada for the Merritt highway areas. 5am January 31 2025…

Always check local conditions, drive BC is always a good place to check for your drive.

Day off  river cleaning:

Dated photo
Snow was dear back then…

Day off takes advantage of snow

This fella had an unexpected day off a year ago or 2 years ago and he decided with the fresh snow that he could do something at the river, so he went down and he sledded what he found as far as recyclable stuff back into the economy.

Sweet

Coral

Good News

Was it the CO2 holiday that occurred throughout the world because of the pandemic? Anyway, we’re happy to find some healthy Coral and report it to you. From the pi.

Tragedy in Canada

Sanctuary status Disturbed.

Canada’s status as being a sanctuary with and for nature and against nature has been Disturbed. Over eons of time, the continent’s preferred location in the ecosystem found the migration of many species of Flora and fauna that served to make a protective and stable system in our country on the Precambrian Canadian shield.

We are not used to disturbances. They come from time to time but they’ve always seemed to be under control. So let’s hope this warning gives us leave, not just to be thankful but to look at our standards.

Plastic is every where.

Those that control the bubbles will control the world.

Me

Do you need some science in your life?

Listen to this guy, 💪

Britannia on plastics, 👀

Modern-day miracle.

The invention of plastics and its use in everyday life and it’s taking over from metals was known as a modern-day miracle. It liberated housewives kept us healthier by providing cheap alternatives to freezing food and gave us cheap clothing and better the lifestyles for some time for great populations.

So, what is owed to the legacy of plastics. We would say that what is old is respect and realization that we have to treat its other side with a little more diligence wherever we can.

Good luck to the polymer Express.

Best of the New Year

Welcome 2023.

Be challenged to live and aspire high.

Sunday Jazz 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵

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Dandy lions and bees. So does everybody know that Google is said to have rented goats and got service from both ends on its lawns at it’s headquarters. That begs the question what other nuisance is employed against the grain of some people’s sensibility.

When coming to the environment one must be careful there is something in it to offend everyone and often it does.

So Bees…

There are literally hundreds of these little creatures that we call bees. Some are pollinators extraordinary which when it comes to some flowering weeds might put them on the wrong side of you. Manicured lawns often do better with lots of watering that seems weeds take advantage of it when there isn’t this much watering.

New environmentally friendly communication boxes..

Utilities box with new graphics Photo KDG

Water table level as of end of July/16 File photo KDG

Source: Gardening Know How, dandelions

Painted lawns

Before we go silly with this there are good reasons for this endeavor as it relates to the environment.

One being :

Reflection

In the absence of naturally occurring coloration a substitute for light colors such as white over dark colors such as black will decrease the absorption of heat and promote the reflection of light and heat back towards space.This is a good thing especially in times when the white reflective pools covered in snow and ice are diminishing and showing dark ground that would love to absorb any heat that was available. As well painted panoramas of live trees may have a calming effect on some people as they walk about or drive about. You could test this theory by painting some relief of weedy ground maybe ad a goat. Some how this idea lacks comfort in my viewpoint. So that leaves the actual property Care at home that would have less of a permanence and be comforting in the fact that it can be managed and it’s not forever.

Firesafe courses

The province of British Columbia how often puts on fire safe courses and I know from experience that they’re easily questioned and open the discussions on what’s the best way to make your property fire safe and at the same time not inconveniencing the present ability of the property.

Window of opportunity

The time in the spring that dandelions are a nuisance is only compounded by the fact that they spread seeds however you can spread your seeds you can put them in a pile on the dry out nicely in the window pick them up and send them away and if you get big black plastic bags to deal with them they’re out of your control by for part of the time that they go to the landfill perhaps try a black polyethylene sheet a black polyethylene sheet glued out on the ground to absorb heat, place the dandelions and Weeds on it and just get an idea of how quickly they can be dried out in a way that makes disposal in a local burial pit practical.

A villain in puberty…

So in one sense we view this photo as a good thing.

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A curb to sidewalk concrete entrance is poured, with feeling slots for the blind. Photo KDG

Being blind to the fact this youngster could be nefarious conductor of heat you might say more everywhere please.No no weeds under concrete!

Yes, and this conductor doesn’t have an orchestra. It only conducts heat and cold and it’s up to you on how you employ it which it will choose to do. So you could plan it’s they so it wouldn’t be lost and lonely and it could be productive preserving heat for when you need it and conducting the cool 😎 when most beneficial to you. That’s also your value to begin it is like contractors city planners and more. The way you put these things out and the way you plant around them can be as planned as you want it to be.

Dandelions you be the judge..

So back to our main topic those dandelions, round up the cost of not buying toxic poisons and make a donation at your local outlet that offers these things or to organizations like mind it to you in your rebirth has a environmentally astute liver.

Happy Earth Month 2022

Stay safe ❤️

Court challenges falling…

Pipe for oil field File:Photo KDG

Trans mountain in its quest for permiting and Social Licence for its expansion to bring more Alberta fossil fuel and fertilizers to the sea coast is seeing challenges to its operations struck down.

On Tuesday, the Federal Court of Appeal issued an unanimous decision, dismissing four challenges to the federal Cabinet’s approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project. The Court’s conclusion was that there were no legal grounds for setting aside Cabinet’s decision. While the parties challenging Cabinet’s decision are fully entitled to oppose the Project, reconciliation and the duty to consult do not provide them with a veto over projects such as this one.

On this Day: February 6th 60 AD

Trans Mountain today

Editors Note: A trillion tree promise in the US State of the Union relevant, is global politics still an issue how can we as Canadians hold their feet to the fire. Treaties, Sanctions, Tarriffs What do you think…

On this Day: AD 60

A Roman Graffito identifies Sunday as a day of a week.

Have a Great Day…

Presentation launch, Alan Burger

February 19th 2019, Merritt Library

At 6 pm Alan Burger will launch a birders presentation at the Merritt Library. Alan is the current president of the Nicola Naturalists Society as well as BC Nature. The presentation is called Budding Birder Backpacks, using binoculars.guidebooks and information on birds The presentation was produced in most by the activities around the his evolvement in the naturalists club in the BC South Central Interior City of Merritt .

On this Day: February 5th 1971

Apollo 14 mission gets on the moon.