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I am all for maintaining large true wilderness. Even so, I think it would be great to have many more "little community forests". My guess is that such forests
by chrispeel 7y ago
I am all for maintaining large true wilderness. Even so, I think it would be great to have many more "little community forests". My guess is that such forests would improve the diversity of all animal life the size of (say) a hawk and smaller. I also guess that the best path to a medium-sized community forest in an area without one is to start with a "little" one.
- abraae 7y agoI'm the steward of a small (10 acres or so) piece of land - small enough that I can hear human activity from most of it - and my leisure activity is trapping for introduced pests like rats, possums, stoats and weasels. It's hard to say exactly how effective my efforts are, but last month I spotted a wild kiwi on a trail camera which was truly exhilarating https://youtu.be/e_9bSw5yniA https://youtu.be/e_9bSw5yniA. Anecdotally I've also noticed an increase in birdlife during the day. That's given me the incentive to try for total pest eradication next year. Rats are the biggest problem.