Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire

[wxman1]

See what happens when @ImJustKCClone leaves a place!

 

[BoxsterCy]

See what happens when @ImJustKCClone leaves a place!

Hmmm, Iceland uses geothermal power, KC and Lew geocache. Gotta be a connection, just need to figure out how cats fit into it.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

WE WERE THERE!!! Grindavik is south-southeast of Keflavik.
The green dots are the caches I logged - there were more, but I didn't log all of them.

 

[frackincygy]

In other words, Iowa has forever lost about 60% of our native timber, which didn't amount to much to begin with. About half that loss was from 1850-1900, the rest since.

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I'm making my attempt to help out. Planted 72 yearling trees I bought through the DNR this spring (planning on more next year). They were really affordable at the beginning of May, but it was a tiny window I had to get them into the ground.

I probably won't be able to enjoy them, but I'm hopeful my kids and their kids just might. Plus I need to do something to replace the 18 dead ash trees around my property.

 

[Turn2]

Iowa's Habitats

Habitats are communities. Each community is made of the land, climate and the plants and animals these support. Each time Iowa’s land or climate has changed, its habitats have changed as well. The plants and animals best suited to the new conditions...

www.iowapbs.org

That’s quite a sterile and naive take for PBS. Chief Seattle foretold Iowa perfectly.

 

[Cmonwhatarewedoinghereman]

Percent of land covered in trees. Iowa is 46th. I question Nevada at 16% with amount of desert they have.

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Tahoe

Cool map. Thanks for posting it

 

[Rabbuk]

I'm making my attempt to help out. Planted 72 yearling trees I bought through the DNR this spring (planning on more next year). They were really affordable at the beginning of May, but it was a tiny window I had to get them into the ground.

I probably won't be able to enjoy them, but I'm hopeful my kids and their kids just might. Plus I need to do something to replace the 18 dead ash trees around my property.

My parents lost 2 100+ year old trees in the derecho and had no trees for a while. My dad planted 2 saplings (can't remember what kind) maybe 3 years ago and they're already probably 10-15 feet high. I had no idea trees grew so fast since all the trees in that neighborhood were ancient.

 

[BCClone]

That’s quite a sterile and naive take for PBS. Chief Seattle foretold Iowa perfectly.

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Here’s another one that shows land vegetation from 1820-1850 area

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Historic-vegetation-for-the-state-of-Iowa-demonstrating-that-the-predominant-land_fig2_318476871#:~:text=a.-,Historic%20vegetation%20for%20the%20state%20of%20Iowa%20demonstrating%20that%20the,vegetation%20layer%20for%20GIS%20analysis.

 

[Turn2]

Here’s another one that shows land vegetation from 1820-1850 area

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Historic-vegetation-for-the-state-of-Iowa-demonstrating-that-the-predominant-land_fig2_318476871#:~:text=a.-,Historic%20vegetation%20for%20the%20state%20of%20Iowa%20demonstrating%20that%20the,vegetation%20layer%20for%20GIS%20analysis.

That’s a good one. Once upon a time I had the spatial version where you could break out the area of each individual subcategory with GIS software. Great and fascinating resource.

 

[BoxsterCy]

That’s quite a sterile and naive take for PBS. Chief Seattle foretold Iowa perfectly.

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[CycloneErik]

Bought kiddo's first glasses today. She took it beyond well, and wishes she didn't have to wait for them.

 

[do4CY]

And just like that, summer comes to an end.

 

[Turn2]

And just like that, summer comes to an end.

Say what now?

 

[wxman1]

Ya know how bars open early on some holidays? First day of school should be one of those.

 

[BCClone]

And just like that, summer comes to an end.

Yeah my last one just left also.

 

[BoxsterCy]

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Yeah my last one just left also.

Where did your kids end up?

 

[qwerty]

WE WERE THERE!!! Grindavik is south-southeast of Keflavik.
The green dots are the caches I logged - there were more, but I didn't log all of them.

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Gesundheit

 

[BCClone]

Where did your kids end up?

Oldest is in the Iowa city area but working closer to Cedar Rapids. Middle child is on her last semester at ISU and youngest is a junior in HS. Football scrimmage tonight.

 

[stormchaser2014]