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Lady Sybil as Joseph Duplessis's Madame de Saint-Morys, 1776
people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.
Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼
in 2026 let’s start actually noticing and taking seriously the true scale and impact of jkrs transmisogyny and how she’s been funneling decades of royalties and ip owner cash directly into anti trans lobbying thats been making the uk hell while gradually worsening conditions elsewhere through impacting the zeitgeist
i’ll just simple this down. One thing i have to say is…
this finale was just absolute cinema ✋🏽🥹🤚🏽
Thanks to Gooseworx, Glitch and the cast for making this amazing series. I’m so glad to be part of this fandom. I never got to see it early but yeah
i’m really gonna miss the main series tho 🥺😞😞
I've said this many times before, and I'll say it one more time:
HEALING AND ACCOUNTABILITY ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!
And that’s a wrap! 🎪
Here's to all the laughter, thrills, and unnecessarily copious amounts of parasocial anxiety 🤣
Thank you @gooseworx and everyone on the Glitch Production team for a fun and beautifully crafted story!
Really wanna cut my hair short. Not even for trans reasons atp but simply because the weather rn is FAR too hot to have long hair.
Pov you're part of the Hamilton cast:
something something "the average country has 10000 prime ministers per election cycle" is a misconception. united kingdoms georg, which has had 10000 prime ministers since 2019, is an outlier and should have never been counted
Every summer I forget how much I fucking love spiders I’ve drunk one every day this week
Drinking spiders??!
You put ice cream in a glass and pour soft drink over it. It creates a thick layer of delicious foam on top of a sweet, creamy drink with ice cream in it.
And yes I did attempt to get a picture by googling “Australia spider” like a fucking moron.
I think that’s called a float in the states. Although we usually plop the icecream into the glass after the soda. Similar effect though.
We wouldn’t be able to call it that because the word is way too easy to confuse with a floater, which is a meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup. It is every bit as delicious as a spider though. I should get some pies and pea soup.
I would like to announce that this is not a standard Australian food, it’s exclusively a South Australian one and the rest of Australia is just as appalled as the rest of the world.
It’s not our fault that the rest of Australia is incorrect about food.
#WE HAVE SPIDERS IN AOTEAROA and they serve CUNT#im gonna steal ice cream from work this weekend and make spiders with it. i will steal the fizzy from work also#i fucking hate my boss
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“average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in South Australia and BADLY misinterpreted our survey question,,
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did everyone forget that the message of the ugly duckling isn't "you'll get a revenge body and all the haters will be sooo jealous" but actually "one day you'll be around people who understand who you are and love you for it"
those ducks still think he's ugly as shit btw. he just doesn't care anymore.
they hug but at what cost :')
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Reenactor throws a spear at a drone
What a time to be alive.
“The medieval warrior, realizing the consequences of his impulsive act, immediately approached the owner of the drone and offered to pay for the damage.
The owner of the drone was so impressed by the brilliant attack that he suggested organizing a competition for bringing down “dragons” with short spears next year.
Drone owners have another year to develop a unique “dragon-like” design for their flying machines.” (x)
I am 100% cooler with this knowing that the spear-thrower realized “oops maybe I shouldn’t have done that” and tried to make it right, and that the guy who the drone belonged to was cool with it
just so everyone knows, this has already been memorialized in a runestone
Everything about this post blesses those involved with a +4 on their next Today is Good Day roll
a rough translation of the inscription on the runestone:
On the seventh day of May in the year of 2016 on hither spot the mighty warrior Ulf hath slain a dragon with his spear.
so yeah, happy birthday to this dragon-slaying event and to it only
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I'm starting to gain insight into why people turn into conspiracy theorists. Some topics are so totally neglected that it looks like they were intentionally and maliciously erased, instead of falling victim to arbitrary lack of interest.
I think it's a vicious cycle; when people don't know something exists, they're not curious about it. Also, people use conceptual categories to think about things, and when a topic falls between or outside of conceptual categories, it can end up totally omitted from our awareness even though it very much exists and is important.
This post is about native bamboo in the United States and the fact that miles-wide tracts of the American Southeast used to be covered in bamboo forests
@icannotgetoverbirds It already is a maddening, bizarre research hole that I have been down for the past few weeks.
Basically, I learned that we have native bamboo, that it once formed an ecosystem called the canebrake that is now critically endangered. The Southeastern USA used to be full of these bamboo thickets that could stretch for miles, but now the bamboo only exists in isolated patches
And THEN.
I realized that there is a little fragment of a canebrake literally in my neighborhood.
HI I AM NOW OBSESSED WITH THIS.
I did not realize the significance until I showed a picture to the ecologist where i work and his reaction was "Whoa! That is BIG."
Apparently extant stands of river cane are mostly just...little sparse thickety patches in forest undergrowth. This patch is about a quarter acre monotypic stand, and about ten years old.
I dive down the Research Hole(tm). Everything new I learn is wilder. Giant river cane mainly reproduces asexually. It only flowers every few decades and the entire clonal colony often dies after it flowers. Seeds often aren't viable.
It's barely been studied enough to determine its ecological significance, but there are five butterfly species and SEVEN moth species dependent on river cane. Many of these should probably be listed as endangered but there's not enough research
There's a species of CRITICALLY ENDANGERED PITCHER PLANT found in canebrakes that only still remains in TWO SPECIFIC COUNTIES IN ALABAMA
Some gardening websites list its height as "over 6 feet" "Over 10 feet" There are living stands that are 30+ feet tall, historical records of it being over 40 feet tall or taller. COLONIAL WRITINGS TALK ABOUT CANES "AS THICK AS A MAN'S THIGH."
The interval between flowering is anyone's guess, and WHY it happens when it does is also anyone's guess. Some say 40-50 years, but there are records of it blooming in as little time as 3-15 years.
It is a miracle plant for filtering pollution. It absorbs 99% of groundwater nitrate contaminants. NINETY NINE PERCENT. It is also so ridiculously useful that it was a staple of Native American material culture everywhere it grew. Baskets! Fishing poles! Beds! Flutes! Mats! Blowguns! Arrows! You name it! You can even eat the young shoots and the seeds.
I took these pictures myself. This stuff in the bottom photo is ten feet tall if it's an inch.
Arundinaria itself is not currently listed as endangered, but I'm growing more and more convinced that it should be. The reports of seeds being usually unviable could suggest very low genetic diversity. You see, it grows in clonal colonies; every cane you see in that photo is probably a clone. The Southern Illinois University research project on it identified 140 individual sites in the surrounding region where it grows.
The question is, are those sites clonal colonies? If so, that's 140 individual PLANTS.
Also, the consistent low estimates of the size Arundinaria gigantea attains (6 feet?? really??) suggests that colonies either aren't living long enough to reach mature size or aren't healthy enough to grow as big as they are supposed to. I doubt we have any clue whatsoever about how its flowers are pollinated. We need to do some research IMMEDIATELY about how much genetic diversity remains in existing populations.
@motherfucking-dragons
it's called the Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant and there are, in total, 11 known sites where it still grows.
in general i'm feral over the carnivorous plant variety of the Southeastern USA. we have SO many super-rare carnivorous plants!!!
Protect the wetlands. Protect the canebrakes because the canebrakes protect the wetlands.
Many years ago I did some (non-academic) research on native canes in the USA because I thought I remembered seeing a bamboo-like something in the wild that I'd been told was native, and I thought it might make a nice landscaping accent. But the sources I found said something like "unlike Asian bamboos, the American equivilant barely reaches the height of a man", and I went "nah, that is exactly the wrong height for anything." But if it gets 10 feet and up, I think there are a lot of people who would be VERY happy to use it as a sight barrier in public and private landscaping, and if it means putting in a bit of a wetland/rain garden, all the better. The lack of a good native equivelant to bamboo is something I have heard numerous people bemoan. Obviously it's very important to protect wild sites and expand those, but if it'd be helpful, I bet it wouldn't be hard to convince landscapers to start new patches too.
For instance, a lot of housing developments, malls, etc. seem to set aside a percentage of their land for semi-wild artificial wetlands (drainage maybe?) planted with natives, and then block the messy view with walls of arbovitae or clump bamboo from asia - perhaps it would be a better option there?
Good Lord. Arundinaria isn't just a better option, it's perfect.
I was in the canebrake near my house again this morning, and river cane is extraordinarily good at completely blocking the view of anything beyond it. It is bushier and leafier than Asian bamboos, and birds like to build nests in it. It would make a fantastic privacy barrier.
The cane near my house is around 10-12 feet tall. This species can reach 30 feet or more, but I think it needs ideal conditions or to be part of a large colony with a robust system of rhizomes or something.
It grows slowly compared to Asian bamboos, and seems to need some shade to establish, so it would take time to become a good barrier, but no worse than those stupid arborvitae.
plants like this were often intentionally cultivated in planter boxes as a form of water filtration and civil engineering by a bunch of indigenous nations.
There's a reason why Native Americans cultivated canebrakes.
Well, several reasons. As y'all may know, bamboo is stronger than any wood, and therefore it makes a fantastic building material.
The Cherokee used, and still use, river cane to make fishing poles, fish traps, arrows, frames for structures, musical instruments, mats, pipes, and absolutely gorgeous double-woven baskets that can even hold water.
This stuff is, no joke, a viable alternative to plastic for a lot of things. The seeds and shoots are also edible.
Uh I know this is out of left field but I work in plant cloning - it's a lot easier than you'd think to do for plants and it's honestly a really important conservation tool, and good for making a TON of seedlings in a short amount of time. I can look into this genus for like, cloning viability?
I know about reproducing plants from cuttings, rhizome cuttings have proven doable with this species.
Hi y'all, reblogging the Canebrake Post again. It's been over a year since I fell in love with the coolest plant ever. I'm trying to bring it back but I am very small so if any of y'all have a Canebrake nearby you might wanna talk to the owners and contact some local parks and nature preserves yeah?
A lot of people are asking how to distinguish Rivercane from invasive bamboo species. This link should help you!
Here's some distinguishing traits I've observed myself:
River cane has a really full, bushy, leafy look that makes it really hard to recognize as bamboo from a distance, because the stems are harder to see. The shape of the individual cane with its branches and leaves is narrow, because the branches spread out very little, but the foliage is DENSE. It's like a plume.
River cane is stronger, denser and heavier than invasive bamboos I've seen.
River cane stems are always green all the way around, no yellow (unless the plant's been dead for a good long time)
River cane stems feel smooth like plastic to the touch. The common invasive bamboo I've seen here, when you run your hand upwards along it, the stem feels awful like sandpaper.
The biggest way to distinguish them: River cane grows 6-4 feet tall when it's in little patches, and up to 10-12 feet when it's in a large size patch (like, the size of a backyard) It is known to reach up to 15 feet tall nowadays and historical records claim heights of 30 feet or more in fertile river valleys. I really want to stress that it's RARE for it to get big. A canebrake will almost always be many times wider than it is tall (sometimes they grow in very long strips along fence rows)
The best time to look for it is in winter before things leaf out, because it's evergreen and grows in dense masses, making it easy to spot.
Some more cool stuff i've found out—River cane was a common food of bison! Earliest European settlers reported canebrakes so big that "100 bison could graze on a single canebrake." Apparently it used to make extremely high quality forage for livestock, before it was mostly destroyed.
European settlers apparently set their pigs loose in the canebrakes purposefully to destroy them, because the pigs would root up the nutritious rhizomes and kill the plant. Thinking of the relationship between Bison and Canebrakes, and the relationship between Eastern Native Americans and Canebrakes, and the relationship between Plains Native Americans and Bison...it seems like a pattern, huh?
In the case of both bison and canebrakes, they were a fundamental part of their ecosystem, and fundamental part of the indigenous cultures that used them for every material, their musical instruments, their homes, their most advanced arts, and even food (Rivercane shoots are edible just like other bamboo, and supposedly the seeds are edible too!) but European settlers purposefully destroyed the species almost completely. I can't help but wonder if there was a similar motivation.
Books that talk about Rivercane:
Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry by Sarah H. Hill talks about rivercane a LOT and gives tons of details of its uses and history.
Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction by Georgann Eubanks has a whole chapter about Rivercane.
Venerable Trees: History, Biology and Conservation in the Bluegrass is a book about Kentucky, but it talks about rivercane's importance including its relationship with bison. It's only a couple pages out of the whole book but it's still great information.
By the way, though, if you read any very early European account of Kentucky, the word "cane" is everywhere. It's just such a nondescript word it's hard to realize its significance.
On a more personal note...god, I love this plant. Here's another photo I took. When you're in the canebrake, it feels so cut off from the rest of the world; it's shaded, quiet, cool, and someone 10 yards away couldn't even see you.
i actually talked to my neighbor that I learned owns the canebrake. She had no idea what it was but she was excited to learn about it! It was a lovely conversation.
Apparently, she knew I had been down there a bunch of times and thought nothing of it. She said "Yeah I told my husband, If you see her down there, just leave her alone she's doing her thing." In the most sincere way possible, God bless this woman
She said I could transplant all I wanted, too. This was great! ...but I quickly learned how RIDICULOUSLY HARD it is to transplant from a canebrake of this size. The rhizomes are so big and tough, a shovel can hardly get through them, and unless you're at the edge of the canebrake, there's a thick mat of them going every which way. I was driving my whole weight down on this shovel and it kept just denting the rhizome and glancing off.
I did get some transplants but each one took like half an hour because I was fighting for my life!
Also, with a canebrake this size, it doesn't grow little canes that will later become bigger—it shoots up tall canes in a single season. The youngest canes, more accessible and toward the edge of the canebrake, were significantly taller than I was. I cut the top off of one transplant for ease of handling—I had a pair of hand pruners with me that were usually perfectly useful for small limbs, but I could barely get these things through the cane, it's just so strong and dense.
Someone research the material properties of this stuff ASAP. It's insanely strong.
Hi everyone, it's the river cane post again!
Here is some YouTube videos that talk about river cane!
Roger Cain of Keetoowah/Western Band Cherokee shows and talks about Rivercane. This video has a BIG canebrake, the mature canes look as if they could be 15ft tall, but he says it's only a fragment of what they used to be!
Stan the River Man visits a Canebrake in Northern Kentucky. This channel only has 22 subscribers, I feel like I've discovered a rare and priceless treasure
River Cane Renaissance, Episode 1. This guy has devoted a large part of his life to studying Rivercane and now works with the eastern band Cherokee to try and bring it back.
Chattooga river conservancy video on Rivercane, haven't watched the whole thing myself but it looks really good and detailed
These videos barely have any views or comments, but y'all can help! We can spread the knowledge.
Hi everyone.
This is exactly what you think it is.
So i'm in contact with a couple of plant nurseries.
Visiting some of my baby canes in the site where they were planted! They're looking good!
Big things are happening.
For privacy reasons, I share details online of my real world activities only reluctantly, and not very often. But don't be bamboozled into thinking I have forgotten the Canebrakes. It's exactly the opposite.
I have done a lot of networking and made a lot of contacts. I am not alone. There are other people with a story exactly like mine: first, they heard an offhanded mention of forests of American bamboo, which shattered everything they thought they knew about their environment. Next, they became crazed with fascination, searching for knowledge with insane ferocity. Then, they realized that river cane is not only a plant, it is a keystone species symbiotic with indigenous cultures for thousands of years, and it was almost destroyed due to the subjugation of its habitat and the genocide of its caretakers.
The canebrakes' devotees have been working tirelessly to compile every single scrap of information on canebrakes that exists in writing. Every record, every primary source, every historical mention, every comment and conjecture. I have been given access to some of this priceless treasure trove. The wealth of information is amazing, but even more amazing is how much is still unknown.
The history, properties, and ecological importance of the canebrakes is so much more than I imagined.
For example, the massive amounts of seeds produced by huge canebrakes in flowering events fed the passenger pigeon flocks. Likewise the Carolina parakeet was also dependent on canebrakes, and the extinct Bachman's warbler was a canebrake specialist. The destruction of canebrakes could be responsible for why these birds went extinct.
Canebrakes were absolutely fundamental to the indigenous peoples of the Southeast, providing for their every need. Food, shelter, containers, tools, music and art. The settlers foolishly thought the indigenous peoples were not "advanced" enough for metal tools, but in truth, they already had a material superior to metal. River cane by weight is stronger than steel. You can make knives and blades out of it.
I am excited for the future. It seems like momentum is building to save the river cane and bring back the canebrakes, and I am hoping to join together with all the other like-minded people to accomplish this task.
A new organization has just started in Alabama to bring back the river cane. Here is a blog post to read from a few months ago.
Was gonna go in the notes for this but screw it, I've reblogged this before because river cane is so cool Nashville is actually reintroducing it at a couple of parks within the city limits! For example, Shelby Bottoms (where I ride bikes most days) has a bunch of smaller canebrakes dispersed along the river and they seem to be growing steadily Also, Dr. Jon Evans, a professor at Sewanee, recently published a paper demonstrating that there are clonal stands of hill cane there that are around 1700 years old! Still a little inconclusive regarding the flowering/reproduction issue but still! I want to see that too if I can Makes me sad every time I go to the greenways in Knoxville and am like "man you could be introducing so much river cane here, it's great"
1700 years old???
Holy shit okay i looked it up and HOLY SHIT. Published 2 months ago.
1700 years old.
And it says A. appalachiana, (the Appalachian species of native rivercane), has actually NEVER been observed to flower, which means ???? i dont even know what the fuck that means.
THIRTY hectares. THIRTY. That's HUGE.
Does this mean that???? Most canebrakes are so small now because they're babies????
EVERYTHING I LEARN JUST MAKES IT MORE INSANE.
Hey. Hi. Appalachian with a lot of forestry history knowledge and Native American knowledge. Please take this with a grain of salt because my brain doesn't work like it used to. I might conflate things or mis-remember. Consider everything I say "lore," and not scientific data, until a scientist tests it and confirms it.
First off, it "eats fish." It'll "eat" fish, snakes, bullfrogs, and bullfrog eggs. Bullfrog egg might be pretty important. A healthy one will eat snakes. Which confuses me because snakes eat all the critters that would chew up their seeds. But timber rattlers tend to go find fallen trees rather than burrow around the cane breaks.
It needs floods. It uses floods to spread and dominate an area. When there's enough of it growing to stop the flood, then it stops spreading in that direction. It probably needs floods to trigger flowering and seeding, but probably what happens is... beavers, then frogs. Frogs lay eggs in the flooded rhizomes. As the flood dries the tadpoles grow into frogs and leave behind nitrates and egg proteins behind that grow the plant and possibly trigger the flowering.
This last batch of seeds op showed was collected 2024. I dunno where, but *when* was 2024 - the 3rd most costly Atlantic Hurricane season on record behind 2017 and 2005. The batch previously in the video linked earlier was collected 2004 in North Carolina; which coincided with a weather pattern that kept hammering that area with historic floods. We know it needs floods, but there may also be something about hurricanes... more on that later.
It needs beavers. It's symbiotic with them. Beaver builds dam, dam floods canebreak, canebreak spreads, beaver gets more cane, more cane makes more dam, bigger dam means more floods, more floods means canebreak gets bigger. Beavers chew the cane at a height that could kill other plants, but the cane just regrows stronger. When a beaver takes out a competing plant, that plant does not grow back, leaving more resources for the canebreak.
It probably repels mosquitoes. That plastic feel makes it not as easy for the male mosquito proboscous to penetrate. Fewer mosquitoes means bison herds stay longer. Bison heards, like beavers, chew down the plant to a height that is easy for it to grow back from, but just destroy all non-grasses they come in contact with. It's very likely that they also need the bison herds around for distribution and unusual bison-poop-specific nourishments.
The seeds and pollen might also stick to bison hair moreso than other animals, allowing for a backtracked way to send genetic material upstream as opposed to downstream. Bear fur as well might have this property; blackberries and arrow cane are companion plants at the farther edges of the canebreak, further from the creek. Possibly sassafrass as well. Both sassafrass and blackberry probably need the canebreak to prevent flooding. The cane would need the blackberry to attract bears and other megafauna. The megafauna get the seeds in their fur and hooves and paws, and travel along the river - they need water to survive, so it's an easy way to hitch a ride from one part of the river to another.
A wet seed will probably change texture when wet; I've never held one. But I'm willing to bet it would stick to feathers and yarns and furs and leathers when dry, but smooth out and drop in water.
Back to the beavers. Beaver dams slow the creeks and rivers. Slows the flow. Causes different stuff to grow in stagnant pools and parts that aren't rushing. That attracts frogs, frog song attracts rains (according to native legend), rain causes flooding. When the Corps of Engineers kinda declared war on the beavers, they declared war on the canebreaks too.
Canebreaks make clouds. They are a cloudmaker. In the spring mornings, soon after the sun rises, if you're looking down from a mountain at a valley with a big canebreak, the air over the break should look a little misty / like a cloud sitting on top of the break. It will rise or dissapate in the morning. It lowers the light level temporarily in the process. That chokes out competition plants that thrive in full sun.
I associate canebreaks with those two weather control elements- frogs and cloudmaking. It could be barometric pressure changes that cause the plant to seed before hurricanes arrive, as they use the floods and destruction of hurricane weather to spread farther and outcompete other growth. Hurricanes can force a river to run backwards. Their clouds can blot out the sun. 2024 most certainly had such events, Hurricane Helene left that part of the world darkened for days. The cane knew she was coming.
Or the cane is using the hurricane floods as a substitute in place of the beaver dams that once flourished in every creek in Appalachia. But again... it could be something prior hurricane season. Canebreak flowering/seeding might indicate a hard hurricane season on the way, rather than be the result of one.
I know or knew of some arrow cane patches in my youth. I would only ever disclose them to a tribal elder, face to face, only with a card carrying member of the Ogapah, Chekota, or Cherokee tribes.
Askbox is open to you, if you think of any questions, ask and/or just reblog this.
Edit: So if I'm right about the hurricane lore, you should be getting a second flowering/seeding this year, because of the friggin' Super El Nino, courtesy of "lets build more datacenters and do a little marine warfare and burn the planet" method of oceanic warming microwaving the seas.
All of this is really interesting information. And I didn't even think about the connection to Hurricane Helene.
That's amazing, canebrakes as cloudmakers. It has been discovered that the Amazon Rainforest does the same thing, releasing moisture into the air to create clouds.
It's also a really fascinating bit of information about beavers-- there was a beaver dam in my town last year. Assholes tore it down with a backhoe, but it was fascinating to see its effects on the ecosystem.
I forgot to tag you in this @headspace-hotel
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · EXAMPLE ONE: · Quickly collecting data on seeding / flowering times and places of American Rivercane / Arrowcane / Switchca
I think I left a message in your ask box about data on times/places where the cane went to seed
My theory is that it only goes to seed when it is certain to perish. Fire doesn't destroy it, but bad weather will. The above post is the handful of times when a seeding has a time and a date and a place that I found.
I was working on a post about how the corps of engineers declared war on the beavers and the beaver dams. 🦫 Beavers are the only other species besides humans that actively change their own ecosystem in order to benefit themselves.
And the reason colonizers declared war on them is the same reason as they declared it on the bison - they wanted to cut pathways/roads to capitalize on the natural resources. For the bison the road was train tracks. For the beaver, regular ol' pavement.
Colonizers have to do a ton of work to "manage" bison and beaver. But the natives used bison and beaver to manage the land. It's like... we had our own little living roombas, cutting down plants, making room for canebrake, flooding spaces, creating space for natural resources to grow, and keeping more water resources available on the ground for ALL of the plants and animals in a given area.
And then we started destroying their works so that we could have traversable waterways and more dry land for whatever the colonizers wanted to build on it.
The intolerance of beavers actually breaks my heart. People will get rid of them even if they're not hurting anything and destroy their dams int eh most destructive manner
The beaver dam in my town, before it was destroyed, managed to kill all of the invasive honeysuckle that had crowded the creek bank. It seems to me like the creeks are choked with invasive species because theres no beaver, not because of something inherent to the invasive species themselves...
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