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This video is interesting because it explores the tension between "Resilience" and "Efficiency".
Before you get super-excited...the narration (perhaps AI generated) takes liberties with technical concepts like "hybrids" and "clones". So take everything else in this video with a grain of salt.
Humans are in a race with fungi, bacteria, virus and chaos. For a while the winds and tides were with us and we have thrived. Pendulums swing. Things change. Even if the earth was filled with oil there is a finite amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. At some point we will have spent our way back into a pay-as-we-go thermodynamic relationship.
Life is "interesting" in the corners
One "hack" in optimization software is to examine the values in the vertices (corners) of the allowable universe. Interesting genes are found on sky-islands in Arizona, cracks in sidewalks, Peru, Spitzbergen Island, Mount Tahat, Orkney Islands, Hillsdale College and Fort Dapp.
Genetic trajectories are not anchored by regression-to-the-mean when they evolve in isolation.
While novel and useful genetic packages can be found in random individuals in the great, thundering herds of conformity, it is not economical to search for them in such places. It seems unlikely that one would find a land-race that can deal with toxic soils in the fertile fields of Indiana where it is not an issue.
Let's raise a toast to those of us who refuse to bow to the cast-pewter gods of conformity!
Source of heirloom grain seeds
Random thought
I look at all of the water-containment run-off swales that the EPA requires of newly paved areas. I understand the concept. Unbuffered rain run-off and snow-melt can be "acid" or thermally hot. Channeling the runoff into a containment area and then having it percolate through the ground buffers the pH and stabilizes the temperature.
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| A random set of containment ponds in an un-named suburb in a midwestern state. |
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| Native range of the genus Zizania at the granularity of "county". Source |
If the Wild Rice is happy it will establish and become repatriated and ducks (and humans) will rejoice. If not, nothing ventured-nothing gained.
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| Hat-tip to the tireless Lucas Machias |
The green in N. AZ is misleading - that is Coconino County, which includes a lot terrain varying from the Grand Canyon bottom to the top of the San Francisco Peaks at > 12,000 ft. If you have water, you can grow pretty much anything there, somewhere in the county - but definitely not in the entire county. My guess is that this data is regarding the mountain meadows on the Mogollon rim where we would find all sorts of northern tier state's flora when I was in the scouts.
ReplyDeleteAny time you get toward the 'edge' of any envelope, interesting things happen... The wild rice idea IS interesting though.
ReplyDeleteFt Dapp? Couldn't find it in Apple maps or 3 different browsers; more info please
ReplyDeleteCrap! Busted!
DeleteHow about Dapp, Alberta? Selected because of a comment from here: https://research-groups.usask.ca/fruit/documents/apples/Norcue.pdf where the weak are not just killed but "...killed severely."
The wild rice thing intrigues me... I live next to a lake with a very shallow area... I believe it would work well for wild rice. Yet I've never found any here? We have river oats in abundance naturally (similar). True 'wild' rice I've been told is impossible to purchase conventionally.
ReplyDeleteI'd think you'd have a good chance of 'real' wild rice if you bought it up where it grows.
DeleteToss some wild rice seeds into runoff swales and such.
ReplyDeleteGuerrilla Gardening 101.
HOWEVER, our water catchments are mowed during dry seasons as not to become unsightly. Not wetlands per say.
Wetlands come under a mad variety of laws, state, federal and towns. Eco-terrorism is a legal term, just be aware.
And finally water quality. Some wetlands I know locally are KNOWN for Duck Itch aka septic tank e-coli contamination.
Wild rice and even fish caught there would require IMHO a careful cleaning and cooked very well. No sushi.
Sadly, the stormwater retention ponds around here are routinely sprayed to suppress near-shore water weeds.
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