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#restoration

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David Bender

#Ecosystem #Restoration focused Master of #Landscape #Architecture graduate from #Temple University in #Philly who loves #woodland #wetlands, #aquatic ecosystems, #camping, #hiking, + INDOOR #cats (please keep your cats inside - they decimate native birds + mammals).

Background: Exhibition Design • Educational Programs • Theatre + Puppetry • B.Sc. Industrial Design

Proud union member 💪 Join one today - it's worth the cost! (we won a 40% raise + 25% child insurance subsidy)

A section of the Moss Garden at Bloedel Reserve in Seattle, Washington - designed by Richard Haag. A thin steam winds through fluffy moss mounds in a dark, mature woodland. Ferns and native shrubs frolick in the dappled understory of the tall trees. Photo from: http://www.intercontinentalgardener.com/2011/03/bloedel-reserve-revisited.html
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RDN

When invasive species are removed, the gap can be filled by other invasive species. But controlling the seasonality and the order in which invasive species are removed can change the subsequent community composition in different ways, some of which may favor native species.

appliedecologistsblog.com/2025

The Applied Ecologist · Agostina Torres: The order and timing of removal of invasive species influence community reassemblyShortlisted for the 2024 Southwood Prize Agostina Torres introduces us to her latest research which evaluated the dependence of community reassembly on inverse priority effects by experimentally re…
#Science#Ecology#InvasiveSpecies
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Getting the broken bolt out took ages. Steel in aluminium gets stuck real good. My usual tricks failed and I had to drill it out. At least it wasn't stainless steel. Then some recutting of mangled threads and finding a replacement bolt.

Not done, but meanwhile I threw some phophoric acid on the steel parts.

The same pump as before, now with the parts stripped of paint, burrs filed down, rust brushed/sanded off and slowly turning black from phoshporic acid. The leather seal around the piston is seated correctly again. Everything except the cylinder looks relatively shiny.
#DIY#Repair#Restoration
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Fixing up this diesel hand pump I found in the garage/barn a while ago.

The leather seal around the piston was slipped out of place, but it was fixable - hope it'll stay in place. Apart from that, just one bolt broke and some rust, mostly on the outside, as the fuel inside had preserved it.

The aluminium parts are a really bad sand casting job, but it should hold anyways. May need some metal epoxy putty.

Cleaning up the parts now. Then test before painting.

A fuel hand pump made of steel and aluminium with some chipped of dark green paint on it. It has a crank arm but the handle is missing. There's a curved spout and a rotating drip catcher that can be slotted together when not in use. The bottom has various size threads for screwing into a barrel or other container. The intake tube protrudes out of the bottom. The pump housing is clamped together by four long rods. At the very top is a calibration screw that can be locked with a tamper-evident wire.
The same pump, now taken apart with the parts spread out on a table. Small screws and parts are in a plastic yoghurt cup. The parts not visible before include the piston with a toothed bar (a rack) and a sprocked removed from the lever shaft, revealing a key. The top and bottom fitting are aluminium, nwo with the pipes removed.
The piston, now cleaned up and the leather seal reseated and clamped into place. A spring holds the a flapper plate shut. It's sitting on piece of scrap PVC floor.
The cylinder, inside partially cleaned up, somewhat rusty but mostly just dirty from brushed off rust and debris. The sun reflects on shiny brushed metal.
#DIY#Restoration#Pump
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BellingenNSW

Dreams of environmental redemption: Reanimate the thylacine

"Perhaps we want an iconic marsupial we can walk on a lead to our local brunch spot."

"Certainly we are not up to the job: we have no experience in making thylacines happy. We have restructured the habitat where the tiger lived, decimated its prey, destroyed its culture. We have built a lot of roads: if everything goes very well and thylacines become as common as pademelons, we can look forward to seeing one on our morning commute, smeared across the highway by a logging truck."

"More likely we are hoping for something to erase our guilt, not just for the extinction of this animal (we could blame someone else for that) but for all the extinctions to come. More likely we want to feel that the damage we do isn’t permanent, that we can travel back in time." Jane Rawson
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#Biodiversity #restoration #thylacines #extinction #marsupials #roads #LoggingIndustry #destruction #wildlife #science #creation #ecology #restoration #MAGA #Australia #writing

The Guardian · Can we recreate a lost world? In Tasmania, anything could happenBy Guardian staff reporter
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Diamante Lavendar

If we all loved ourselves and others, treated ourselves and others with respect and dignity, and valued and cherished our natural world, what a beautiful, utopian existence this would be.

Unity, understanding, and compassion toward ourselves and others are the keys to preventing pain and loss. Division only leads to more suffering. We also need to protect the natural world, which sustains every form of life on this planet.

#unity#awareness#hope
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