Sporadiczombielight - Sporadic Spasms

You mentioned years ago that you once worked on a project restoring former coal mine land, trying to get plants to grow and break up the compacted soil and so on. Do you know how the site is doing now? I hope you don’t mind me asking, but it sounds like a very cool project and I would love to know if it worked!

Oh, extremely well! The trees are about a third of the height they should be for their age, but there's a little woodland there now. This year my uni is taking over the lease for the site, so investigations continue. We got a lot of papers out of it. Plus, we proved that if you get the trees to grow in, you increase other biodiversity, like birds and earthworms and small mammals and lizards (the place is alive with lizards every summer, actually. Sometimes they sit on your bag.)

The main project site is here, if you want a gander.

by Dmitriy Shustikov

sea butterflies, Limacina helicina (Gastropoda: Limacinidae)

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by benjaminwolf__

Costume. Chitons.

“Winter Bonsai” 1982 by  Eyvind Earle (1916-2000)

Source: homebuildingsmart.com

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