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My understanding is that there is a give and take between meadows and forests that occurs on multi-year cycle. Meadows grow when there is too much water, and tr
by javajosh 9y ago
My understanding is that there is a give and take between meadows and forests that occurs on multi-year cycle. Meadows grow when there is too much water, and trees grow when the water recedes. You can see this in the Yosemite Valley really clearly. Perhaps this is a sign that the freshwater in the ground is going away.
- mschuster91 9y ago> Perhaps this is a sign that the freshwater in the ground is going away. Now look what Nestle/other food giants, but also slaughterhouses and animal farms, do: they use groundwater with private wells, and they extract more water than can be replenished... boom.
- WillReplyfFood 9y agoI wonder if sabotaging such private wells, by conrecte blocking parts of the aquifying layer would constitute as self-defense.
- mschuster91 9y agoMost likely not, and you risk disruption of underground water flows by injecting huge amounts of concrete into the ground...
- chewz 9y agoLarge areas had been meliorated (in 70-ties in my country Poland) so the meadows are gone for good outside of some protected areas. All these wild weeping willow which had been a signature of Masovian landscape and which I still remember from childhood visits to family farm died soon thereafter. So did the frogs. It is like coming to different country now.
- mantas 9y agoSame in Lithuania. Although it's not as permanent as you might think. In 90s many state farms went under and huge portions of land was left to it's own devices. By 00s, many of them turned into grass with wild flowers, tiny trees, and everything Wherever melioration failed, it was slowly nearing meadow-like conditions. Now big portions of it are used again either for agriculture or housing...