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@pk198722@ppayne2639@muskieguy@UoArms These are being made off the Tommy-Built T7 machines (internals reworked for semi auto fire) so maybe between $2,000 or $1900.
I take my family here for beach day trips and then we get scowled at for being “tourists” by the local Boomers living in 3 million dollar homes with “no human is illegal” yard signs because we live ever so slightly outside the depicted box.
What happens here is my experience of “Bodega Nationalism”.
This wildlife management technique is what’s known as “aversive conditioning.” Both elk and bighorns have eons of very strong avoidance responses to canid predators (eg wolves, coyotes) so when Blue barks or acts like a herder, this signals danger to wildlife and they move to their natural habitat away from the courtyard of the hotel.
Habituation is when wildlife repeatedly encounter non-threatening humans in developed areas, like picnic tables or trash cans. This reduces their natural behavior of being wary, and increases the risks of conflict where elk can charge and injure people. The dog intervention helps keep that predator avoidance learning fresh in their minds. Similar programs in Glacier and Banff.
This dog based hazing has been rigorously tested in the literature with elk and bighorns, and it does result in changes to habitat use, human interactions, and movement patterns.
America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.
The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.
Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.
Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.
Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.
These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.
So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.
114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.