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It is ridiculous how much grocery prices have increased

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DITTO used TRANSFORM!

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Now it should work lol

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Now it should work lol

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"In an unprecedented step to preserve and maintain the most carbon-rich elements of U.S. forests in an era of climate change, President Joe Biden’s administration last week proposed to end commercially driven logging of old-growth trees in National Forests.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, issued a Notice of Intent to amend the land management plans of all 128 National Forests to prioritize old-growth conservation and recognize the oldest trees’ unique role in carbon storage. 

It would be the first nationwide amendment to forest plans in the 118-year history of the Forest Service, where local rangers typically have the final word on how to balance forests’ role in watershed, wildlife and recreation with the agency’s mandate to maintain a “sustained yield” of timber.

“Old-growth forests are a vital part of our ecosystems and a special cultural resource,” Vilsack said in a statement accompanying the notice. “This clear direction will help our old-growth forests thrive across our shared landscape.”

But initial responses from both environmentalists and the logging industry suggest that the plan does not resolve the conflict between the Forest Service’s traditional role of administering the “products and services” of public lands—especially timber—and the challenges the agency now faces due to climate change. National Forests hold most of the nation’s mature and old-growth trees, and therefore, its greatest stores of forest carbon, but that resource is under growing pressure from wildfire, insects, disease and other impacts of warming.

Views could not be more polarized on how the National Forests should be managed in light of the growing risks.

National and local environmental advocates have been urging the Biden administration to adopt a new policy emphasizing preservation in National Forests, treating them as a strategic reserve of carbon. Although they praised the old-growth proposal as an “historic” step, they want to see protection extended to “mature” forests, those dominated by trees roughly 80 to 150 years old, which are a far larger portion of the National Forests. As old-growth trees are lost, which can happen rapidly due to megafires and other assaults, they argue that the Forest Service should be ensuring there are fully developed trees on the landscape to take their place...

The Biden administration’s new proposal seeks to take a middle ground, establishing protection for the oldest trees under its stewardship while allowing exceptions to reduce fuel hazards, protect public health and safety and other purposes. And the Forest Service is seeking public comment through Feb. 2 (Note: That's the official page for the proposed rule, but for some reason you can only submit comments through the forest service website - so do that here!) on the proposal as well as other steps needed to manage its lands to retain mature and old-growth forests over time, particularly in light of climate change.

If the Forest Service were to put in place nationwide protections for both mature and old-growth forests, it would close off most of the National Forests to logging. In an inventory concluded earlier this year in response to a Biden executive order, the Forest Service found that 24.7 million acres, or 17 percent, of its 144.3 million acres of forest are old-growth, while 68.1 million acres, or 47 percent, are mature."

-via Inside Climate News, December 20, 2023

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Note: This proposed rule is current up for public comment! If you're in the US, you can go here to file an official comment telling the Biden administration how much you support this proposal - and that you think it should be extended to mature forests!

Official public comments really DO matter. You can leave a comment on this proposal here until February 2nd.

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I really hate that pixel art is becoming associated with NFTs, pixel art rules

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Memories of Me….

just the first piece though.

I don’t know if this will play the way it’s supposed to, but I was drawing a memory

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Hey I just want to remind everyone not to be too hard on themselves! Sometimes your improving without even realizing it, and you shouldn’t compare yourself to others because we all improve at our own rate. Just keep learning and creating and one day you’ll realize just how far you’ve come! :3

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Hello Hello! The new year always puts me in an artsy mood so I’ve decided to draw a tree everyday this year, so far I have 4/6, but I also did a really short animation one day and this painting thing that will be in a larger animation. I’ll draw the other 2 trees later.

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Painting I did for my friend's birthday

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Ship Painting I, 51" X 43", 2017

Expensive Painting (Ship), 64" X 64", 2016

Ship Painting II, 41" X 49", 2017

Andy Dixon

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Dearly Beloved 💌

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Tried painting my dog! I’m not very good with gauche yet, but if I don’t practice I won’t ever get better!

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[Image Description: A orange-purple hued digital drawing of a sunset with shadowed mountain peaks. In the center of the mountains is a river, with a burning longship. The embers of the fire float up and blend into the stars. End ID]

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Soo did y'all know you can get a soldering iron for 8 bucks? I didn't. I do now. I'm about to burn the shit out of myself.

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what if we lived in a cozy treehouse in a magical swamp 😳 haha jk. unless...?

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