Naked Gardening and Naked Gardening Day

[reubenT]

Well;   It's arrived.     But not in style.     rainy day.      But it's no big deal.    I've been working the garden naked every day all week.   To be continued all summer. 




"The environmentalists are re-introducing wolves."           It wasn't so long ago the government paid bounty on wolves.  they were the enemies of livestock,  and our enemies.   It was only practical for survival to eliminate them.     Them,  and the bear,  and mountain lion, where the main reason everyone picked up a gun when walking out the cabin door,   never knew when ya would meet one.     And anyone camping out in hunting trips or travel had to take precautions,  keep a fire going good all night and a gun handy.    Wasn't safe just to camp out like a lot of hikers and backpackers do now.    It's been just long enough for people to forget what it was like,   now they want to bring them back. 

[ric]

it was sunny here yesterday... i forgot all about naked gardening day.... next door had a herd of kids in allday.... so it was shorts anyway or id get earache from the mrs.   weekdays when kids are at school and neighbours at work are so much more relaxed.

[jbeegoode]

Well;   It's arrived.     But not in style.     rainy day.      But it's no big deal.    I've been working the garden naked every day all week.   To be continued all summer. 




"The environmentalists are re-introducing wolves."           It wasn't so long ago the government paid bounty on wolves.  they were the enemies of livestock,  and our enemies.   It was only practical for survival to eliminate them.     Them,  and the bear,  and mountain lion, where the main reason everyone picked up a gun when walking out the cabin door,   never knew when ya would meet one.     And anyone camping out in hunting trips or travel had to take precautions,  keep a fire going good all night and a gun handy.    Wasn't safe just to camp out like a lot of hikers and backpackers do now.    It's been just long enough for people to forget what it was like,   now they want to bring them back.

Mexican Grey wolves have been reintroduced here in the White Mountains of Arizona. They are thrilling, wild and wonderful. There is much accommodation for ranchers concerns, but ranchers often abuse their end. The wolves are not a threat or a problem. Mountain lions get a bad rap, to an extent, too. They don't trust us. They stay away. You have to "hunt" them out. Bears, depends on the type bears and the situation.

Just because you hung out with people who were afraid of these animals doesn't mean that there was always a clear and present danger. Wolve's tales are not always true, legend, gossip, tall tales mostly and Red Riding hood starting the ball rolling. If you depended on your livestock, accommodations needed to be made and that might be a gun, but now, with these reintroduction programs, science is there. They monitor the wolves behaviors and habits, move the cattle around accordingly and protect the ranchers interests. I suggest that you listen to the Feds with an open mind and then find how you feel. Things back in the day were often BS, bravado, or fear and ignorance.

I certainly have no problem with guns, but I do have concerns with certain gun owner's behaviors. Dragging a gun everywhere in nature is like wearing heavy boots, heavy pants and shirt and stomping breaking your way everywhere. It is not an attitude of knowing, learning to know intimately and being a part of nature.

D. Boone recorded encounters and the murders of 20 bears in a day. If that is true, that might have been a bear problem!
Jbee

[John P]

World Naked Gardening Day in France:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffrance3-regions.francetvinfo.fr%2Foccitanie%2Fjournee-mondiale-du-jardinage-nu-terreau-fertile-occitanie-1470765.html&edit-text=

Et pour toi, JBG, Journée Mondiale du Jardinage Nu:
https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/journee-mondiale-du-jardinage-nu-terreau-fertile-occitanie-1470765.html

[eyesup]

I read an article, I believe in National Geographic, about the re-introduction of wolves in Yellowstone Park. They were having issues with streams eroding their banks and destroying the plants that grew there which provided shelter for animals that lived in that ecology.

They determined that elk were denuding the trees and eating the grasses so that the soil had nothing to keep it in place. The herds were getting too large for the ecology. Solution, wolves. The before and after photographs of the areas were remarkable. After just a few years the river banks were recovering and re-establishing the undergrowth along the banks. The elk were still there and healthier as the weaker of the herd were being eliminated by the wolf predation. It was a win-win solution.

It does work when done correctly.

Duane

[jbeegoode]

I saw that. I had forgotten that. That was extremely powerful!

West Virginia could use wolves the way people are making road kill and complaining about their roses.

Human hunters should have their place, too, but they tend to pick off the stronger and healthy.
Jbee

[eyesup]

Yes. There is nothing like a visual to impress on the mind the significance of an event. In conjunction with the biological science done it is perfectly clear.

I should have stated more clearly, that it works perfectly when done as nature intended.

Duane

[JOhnGw]

Yes. There is nothing like a visual to impress on the mind the significance of an event. In conjunction with the biological science done it is perfectly clear.

I should have stated more clearly, that it works perfectly when done as nature intended.

Duane

Otherwise referred to as "Don't kick against the pricks."

[eyesup]

Otherwise referred to as "Don't kick against the pricks."

Yeah! Exactly!

Duane