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screechingcrow · 6 days

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Just walk in the misty morning of a forest.

#happy that the sun is out but missing the misty mountains

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screechingcrow · 11 days

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It’s that time of the year again

#naturecore #adventurecore #flowers #forestcore #my pics #nature #aesthetic #nature photos #vibes #love this time of the year #spring #wildflowers

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screechingcrow · 11 days

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not to be the guy who stops and admires the flowers but when I go outside. they do draw me in fr fr

#me now that it’s wildflower season

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screechingcrow · 12 days

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#obsessed with this #the little walk <3

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screechingcrow · 13 days

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as if nature isn't the most prolific storyteller out there!! with her layers of sediment and mountain-top fossils. with her trodden down paths and carved out river beds. with her fresh springs and billowing waterfalls. rotting branches and hollowed tree trunks... creeping coastlines and collapsing cliff faces... a living record of time immemorial; both an archiver and witness!!

#going into the woods for inspiration #there’s always more to learn if you just look closer

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screechingcrow · 14 days

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Old buildings in Grand Teton National Park that I looked slightly to the left of.

#the Tetons have my whole heart

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screechingcrow · 14 days

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"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

#happy to see some maps about what conservationists have been talking about for a while #but like… it also is so important to plant native and intentional when it comes to reforesting #there needs to be managment plans about how to maintain these forests planted in the million tree campaigns for years to come #and not just planting and moving on #that’s not even touching on rewilding vs reforesting and how grassland ecosystems are just as important as forests #don’t get me wrong I’m all for the trees and forests but just in ways and places that it can last for years to come #Climate hope is so important but this issue is so much more complicated than just planting trees #sorry this post just brought out my degree

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