Ecosystem degradation

Does anybody else ever see something like land filled with invasive shrubs and just wish they could clean it up?
I'm considering bringing hedge clippers and cleaning up overgrown trails and invasive plants but I'm not sure if its exactly allowed. Don't really want to be caught by someone because the average normie thinks "cutting down any trees = le bad"

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Organized groups go out and try to eradicate buffelgrass. It's pretty futile unless you resort to herbicides.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The various federal, state, and local governments that administer public lands don't have the money to deal with this. What they hope will happen are wildfires started by homeless/campers that burn everything to ashes, since containing a fire is easier and cheaper than cutting and herbicide application. After a fire burns the county/state/fed.gov will have free reign to develop the land or completely ban any access to it. The best thing to do is learn GIS and get paid to help develop the formally vacant land into RV parks and community soccer fields.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The best thing to do is learn GIS and get paid to help develop the formally vacant land into RV parks and community soccer fields.
      You absolute Black person

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What's wrong with soccer fields? Playing soccer is a great way to keep in shape for hiking.
        To the guy you're replying to, wouldn't AutoCAD be better for that objective than ArcGIS?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          GIS will be used to find the areas of vacant land, CAD will be used for the design. Keep up

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Contact your state parks department, they are always looking for help. Also check their employment site, they will probably be hiring for summer positions. You can get paid to clean trails.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They used to do buckthorn pulls in my area where people would get together, sweep a patch of woods for buckthorn, and rip it up. Pretty futile once it's in the seed bank though.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've been battling invasive species for 25 years on massive swaths of public and private land.
      Where I operate the goal is to promote evergreen and evergreen companion species. After a few years the evergreens will block out the light killing most of the invasive shrubs and brambles. The battle against invasive species is more about getting moronic city transplants to stop planting shit like ivy and other non native shit. There are also usually city ordinances against invasive species that allow you to go after land holders with fields of invasive plants...the battle against invasive species is almost always a battle at the forest edge with the only way to win is to expand the forest... Boomers and city transplants...are moronic

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >just interfere with evolution, for natures sake
    Not how it works bro, and also good fricking luck with that. How many hours of your life do you intend to dedicate towards pissing in Darwin's wind?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >muh evolution
      you have absolutely no clue what's being talked about itt you cringy moron

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >no clue
        Clue me in then.
        Keep whining about the direction of the tides. Paddle harder, you can change them I'm sure. A for effort, here's your gold star.

        I'm OP and I actually agree with you that at this point there's no stopping invasives, but what I meant was cutting down shitty thorn bushes like jap barberry and multiflora rosa that takes over the fishing ponds and trails I go to.

        >removing local nuisances
        Sure, I clear a path to my local river spots every spring too and do a little upkeep as needed. I don't know or care what's invasive though, just gtfo my way plant

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I don't know or care what's invasive though, just gtfo my way plant
          What a comedian

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm OP and I actually agree with you that at this point there's no stopping invasives, but what I meant was cutting down shitty thorn bushes like jap barberry and multiflora rosa that takes over the fishing ponds and trails I go to.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This and cleaning up litter is a better use of your time then pulling up every little plant because "akshually it's not native to north America"

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why not? You're not going to scour the area clean, but you can certainly tidy it up for a long time. I'd use a machete or similar, though, because taking hedge clippers into the woods is just too silly.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >I'd use a machete or similar, though, because taking hedge clippers into the woods is just too silly
          That's the problem, I feel like I'm inviting trouble by walking around with a machete in a public park.
          I could wear one of those bright reflective vests to make it look like I'm a worker but at the same time I'd rather not have attention on me.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Who's going to frick with you if you're carrying a machete? If you're that self conscious you can buy an 18" tramontina machete with a sheath from Lowes. Put it in your backpack and nobody'll know the difference.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Don't listen to that other guy. Park police literally have nothing better to do than bust people for petty shit, and damages to plants can be surprisingly expensive when fined.
            If you do it, be stealthy.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >taking hedge clippers into the woods is just too silly
          I do this and no one has made fun of me yet, because no one is there to see me doing it anyway.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    invasive plant is a successful plant, your clipping will solve nothing. the problem is stupid and greedy people, most of invasive species come through ~~*international trade*~~ as runaway consoomer products. you should really be sinking ships and shooting down aeroplanes

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Depends on the plant. It can be successful but clipping mullein for instance just makes it angrier if it’s throwing up flowers and if it’s seeding you have to catch the seed heads or you just dumped a million of the frickers into the seed bank for the next 100 years.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Some random woman was was reading you guys on my phone in a bus and nlthe she was looking at me funny. Why do you need to use soo many racial slurs when discussing grassroot conservation efforts?

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