We're being outbred. We're on the endangered list ...

[dogtag]

Alien species have invaded the country and are crowding out
not only the original natives but the original colonists too.
Just like other non-native species such as the wild Boar, the
Burmese Python the European Starling and the Asian Carp.
What they do is take advantage of the goodies they find and
rapidly increase their numbers until in time they become
the dominant species.

https://summit.news/2020/06/25/u-s-c...ty-in-america/

https://www.history.com/news/invasive-species-list-mammals-birds-aquatic

[togor]

I've participated in multiple restoration projects up here. Sometimes it's a degraded woodland or pasture, never plowed, and sometimes taking ag field back into native plants.

Most people don't realize that even the grassy ditches of the upper midwest are non-native species, cool-season forage grasses brought from Europe for livestock. Have a project going this summer, slashing brush to expand an area brought under fire management. But...if someone can get a sizable area back to native plants, the wildlife reaction is remarkable.

[lyman]

I've participated in multiple restoration projects up here. Sometimes it's a degraded woodland or pasture, never plowed, and sometimes taking ag field back into native plants.

Most people don't realize that even the grassy ditches of the upper midwest are non-native species, cool-season forage grasses brought from Europe for livestock. Have a project going this summer, slashing brush to expand an area brought under fire management. But...if someone can get a sizable area back to native plants, the wildlife reaction is remarkable.

a good friend has a family farm that has been in his family for many generations,

they decided to have the State come in a look it over to help restore native Quail (they have almost all disappeared in Va, if a farmer has a few covey's they keep quiet about it )

this farm has not been worked (as a farm) in a couple generations, other than leasing out some fields for hay\fescue,


he was amazed at the number of trees, and types of grasses that they have had to cull,

[dogtag]

I wasn't. referring to threatened Quail, I was talking about us (PEOPLE)
the reference to animals was meant as an example.

I'll have to use shorter words in future, maybe that will help.

[lyman]

I wasn't. referring to threatened Quail, I was talking about us (PEOPLE)
the reference to animals was meant as an example.

I'll have to use shorter words in future, maybe that will help.

are you taking a piss?

[togor]

a good friend has a family farm that has been in his family for many generations,

they decided to have the State come in a look it over to help restore native Quail (they have almost all disappeared in Va, if a farmer has a few covey's they keep quiet about it )

this farm has not been worked (as a farm) in a couple generations, other than leasing out some fields for hay\fescue,


he was amazed at the number of trees, and types of grasses that they have had to cull,

There are a few places in the country where Chestnut trees have escaped the blight. Just a handful. People discover them and try to keep the locations secret so as to not attract the dreaded disease. But they've been making slow progress on disease resistance.

https://dnr.wi.gov/wnrmag/html/stories/2002/aug02/chest.htm

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-bring-back-near-mythical-american-chestnut-trees

If somehow given the chance to go back in time for one day only, I think it would be to pre-settlement times, to see the landscape as it was. Might have to hide from the locals but it would still be worth it.