HerniatedDiscGolf

Dude from WI who loves throwing and dying discs, fishing and living in the sticks with my wife and kids. PDGA#196954

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@anijabu @JM132132 @SpencerHakimian Oh this guy FOR sure drinks raw milk🤣

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@SpencerHakimian Oh no I would hate to lose such bright minds

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@factpostnews We're finished as a democracy just a fyi

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@wyatttoday Oh sorry, if we hadn't mentioned...

It's because it's all stupid.

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@CoreyGerkenWX @elonmusk Kinda looks like boobies a couple times maybe

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@Cardzilla_ Michigan doing it right again

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

One of the most heroic things I've seen recently is one little town in northern Michigan that kept a bird from going extinct.

The town is Mio, population of about 1800. The bird is the Kirtland's warbler, a small gray-and-yellow songbird that breeds in exactly one kind of habitat, mostly in a single corner of Michigan.

In 1974, the entire global population dropped to 167 singing males. The bird was one of the first species listed under the original 1966 Endangered Species Preservation Act, and it looked like the species was going to be extinct within a generation.

The problem was the habitat. Kirtland's warblers need fire-disturbed jack pine. Their entire breeding range is one specific successional stage of a fire-adapted forest. Decades of fire suppression had let the jack pine grow up past the age the birds could use. The birds had nowhere left to nest.

Mio became the staging point for the recovery. They built a forest management program: clear-cut, replant, burn, repeat. About 76,000 hectares are now managed on roughly six-year rotations to keep a continuous supply of young pine in the bird's preferred age range.

The work has paid off with the total population estimated at over 4,500 birds. The Kirtland's warbler was removed from the endangered species list in 2019, a rare full delisting.

The bird still requires active management. If the work stopped, the jack pine would age out within 20 years and the species would collapse again.

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@Cawfeeccino @PokeTCGiveaways It was on purpose

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@MeriwetherFarms Texas should put more science deniers in office!

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@amazingmap MN takes the cake

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@PokeCorsair329 @PSAcard Not making me want to send in my first ever card to grade

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@Brodiesmith21 Lol why is this kid crying at the change of your hobbies🤣

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@SirJeremyLondon This is the car I grew up in and first wanted myself. I remember my dad doing 110 down a country road blasting the cranberries

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@glenn_tunes If windmills should go, cats should get burned at the stake

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@Cardzilla_ @BradGalli Oh no I remember this like it was yeaterday

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@patobonato Yeaaaaahhhh I might have punched back once

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@Cardzilla_ Wow. I read way too much of that. That dude barely knows where he is.

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@volcaholic1 Minor injuries and shock?! Was there no one within 2 miles?

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@FullOfGraceUS Oh boy

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@GregAbbott_TX This is just one step away from him posting an actual picture of himself performing mouth hugs on DJT

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@Cardzilla_ Way cool. I love seeing your different sporting adventures up there. You guys seem to have an awesome scene.