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Caffeine in fallen leaves apparently prevents other seeds from germinating. Tannins in oak leaves changes the pH of ground preventing some plants from growing. Fallen pine needles are not a very good growth medium for anything. This from memory, I guess the list is a lot longer.

That fits what one sees, the bright area goes through the whole thickness which high probability means that the low carbon outer layers are totally missing there and the high carbon core has been 2/3 broken possible from the beginning. That is a starting material defect, the plate from which...

OK, from what I can see: rectangular section of the stick tang, the final break happened in the bright area on the left; brittle fracture with a few striations so it did not happen all at once but at least in a few stages. Then the strange part: something like shear lips on both long sides but...

I have to start reading all that. My aim is as mixed species forest as possible and if possible to find a half way stable configuration. The latter is nearly impossible here because of Norway spruce, it tends to conquer everything except the driest areas. In the south the present view is that...

No problem there, this really is a different subject.

In Finland about 101 % of forestry papers are industrially oriented. While there may be some I have never met a study of how to found or take care of a non_industrial_production forest area. I have my own experiment on about 5 hectares but it has been guess work all the way. Are there real...

Hmmm ... how have you found a place to sleep half way safely if your normal travel is rudely interrupted? My first thought is that it has gotten more and more difficult (if no hotels available).

After some changes in legislation there are reports that some 50 wolves have been shot in the last week or so. So far no reports on suspicious changes in species after death ...

Slightly convoluted but about par on this thread ...

No one in particular, around post #18 somebody made a question about The Buck.

The fact many people tend to forget when speaking about the dollar as world's reserve currency is the huge amount of them tied into crude and less crude oil. That is the reason why US is fighting to retain Dollar as the reference currency for oil.

As both silver and copper have similar effects on microbes (ie. killing them) one would expect that an alloy of silver and copper would behave nicely as a bullet as it should have the killing power and greater strength than pure silver. Apparently casting the bullets is a little tricky as the...

I would prefer a half way heavy working knife like a parang or variations thereoff. A billhook with double edge works, one has to be a bit careful with that beast though but it is handy.

The idea of stump treatment is to stop the spread to new root systems, it does not stop or eradicate existing fungus.

A worry: I might have Heterobasidion annosum fungus in some parts of my lot. Next to impossible to get rid of. The standard cure is to cut off all pines and spruces in the area and and let birch to conquer and then wait. Not an idea I like. Have to be careful when cutting anything in the...

Methyl eugenol has a very high boiling point which would indicate that at room temp it evaporates at a slow rate. From the woods I am more familiar with juniper seems to retain its distinctive smell longest, several years, but it does fade. In fact that one can smell something means it is...

Green and with just a wiff of stevia in it. I can well relate to the idea of smells bringing up memories, only not any more. That bloody Covid took out almost all of my sense of smell, only occasional and fleeting sensory indications that smells still do actually exist.

I think there is a minimum set of skills required but beyond that short term some prepper set helps and long term I think a set of social skills (and of course how to for food) might pay off. Even in our quite sparsely populated country if I have to fall back to my trekking, hunting and camping...

My understanding is as H30 said, I have seen many reindeer herders to actually carry three knives, the big one, one about 15cm and the smallest one about 8-9cm. Those carried on person, I suspect that a smallish axe might be carried in reindeer ahkio or nowadays in snowmobile. The knives are...

You people do not think like engineers, of course you have to charge yourself the same polarity as the tick to repel it!