Closing

[greenstorm]

Probably one of the last field days of the year at work. Persistent warm rain. No leaves left on the deciduous. Roads mushy and slippery with mud, maybe this is our last unfreeze. This is a late winter; we had -9 without much snow. I'm hoping we get snow before we get much colder than that or it'll be hard on the plants. On the other hand I'm hoping not to get snow before Sat afternoon when I get snow tires on my truck.

I began listening to a delightful podcast known as "Future Ecologies" today and got through six episodes. Highly recommended.

Meanwhile my jurisdiction (British Columbia) is starting the concrete, public-facing steps of radically revising our forest policy. It's been coming, it's a bit overdue, and it's about to hit like an avalanche. The first step has been deferring (if in agreement with the relevant First Nations) an awful lot of cut for two years.

Comments

[graydon2]

I'm excited to hear more.

[greenstorm]

I'm interested to see what happens. I'm honestly heartbroken that the concept of old growth has been reduced from a stand structure to a tree age and can't see anything good coming out of such a characterization; otoh we're not doing anything without first nations and they can often curb some of the worst of the homogenization caused by the ENGO campaigns.