#Coho the third

[da-7-kings]

temp intro post

ok, I’ve now been on tumblr to get my shit together, and I’m now making an intro post.

THIS IS A ROLEPLAY BLOG FOR MY KING SALMONID OCS. (Four of which have original designs)

characters:

Coho the third —- cohozuna

Borris —- Horrorboros

Joe —- Megalodontia

DeDee —- Dunkelofurr**

Alli —- Axhead**

Tim, Timmy, Timothy —- Hydrasuar** ***

Zenevr —- Bigfry** ****

update: no longer using color. Weird glitch keeps happening when I try to color text. Will use character names in the future.

**custom king salmonid

***they are 3 different heads joined onto one body (hydra)

****leader.

character lore below the cut

Character lore

(it isn’t insane lore, will flesh out as I go)

Coho the third- (pretends too) speaks in a proper British accent. Likes eating crumpets and drinking tea. He dislikes fighting, but is not afraid to do fight. Very genuine guy, except when you ask him about his accent.

Borris- A very famous salmonid film director. Started out filming p*rn but then branched out to not p*rn. He’s chaotic and loud, and likes explosions.

Joe- genuinely a chill dude. He likes making puns. He has a New York accent. (i.e. fugedabouit). Greatly dislikes fighting, but gives hell if he fights.

DeDee- levelheaded. He’s the sniper of the group, usually picking off his targets before they even start the fight. He isn’t one to initiate conversations, but has a bunch of stories to tell if you ask him.

Alli- She is a big softy, allowing lesser salmonids to ride her ax shaped head. She sucks at aiming her harpoons, so she usually just swims on the ground or jumps.

Tim- early bird. LOUD. Loves to tell slanderous lies for the fun of it. Will frequently debate Timmy over what is true. Left head of his hydrasuar

Timmy- unintentionally loud. Just say something and he’ll quiet down, but he becomes pound again over time so there’s really no point. He is however, a dumb sweetheart, and (usually) always tells the truth. Middle head of his hydrasuar (and in control of the body)

Timothy- Night owl. He is antisocial, usually just tending to plants. He is also quiet because his voice is usually drowned out by his brothers. Is the only one of his hydrasuar that dislikes fighting (left head. Can control the body in some extreme scenarios.)

Znevr- The crazy leader. He is quick to temper and headstrong, but cares about is siblings. He is extremely intelligent, having been able to repair the octo expansion laser, and make it more deadly and energy efficient, from scraps.

[reasonsforhope]

"In Northern California, a Native American tribe is celebrating the return of ancestral lands in one of the largest such transfers in the nation’s history.

Through a Dept. of the Interior initiative aiming to bring indigenous knowledge back into land management, 76 square miles east of the central stretch of the Klamath River has been returned to the Yurok tribe.

Sandwiched between the newly-freed Klamath and forested hillsides of evergreens, redwoods, and cottonwoods, Blue Creek is considered the crown jewel of these lands, though if it were a jewel it wouldn’t be blue, it would be a giant colorless diamond, such is the clarity of the water.

Pictured: Blue Creek

It’s the most important cold-water tributary of the Klamath River, and critical habitat for coho and Chinook salmon. Fished and hunted on since time immemorial by the Yurok and their ancestors, the land was taken from them during the gold rush before eventually being bought by timber companies.

Barry McCovey Jr., director of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Department, remembers slipping past gates and dodging security along Blue Creek just to fish up a steelhead, one of three game fish that populate the river and need it to spawn.

Profiled along with the efforts of his tribe to secure the land for themselves and their posterity, he spoke to AP about the experience of seeing plans, made a decade ago, come to fruition, and returning to the creek on which he formerly trespassed as a land and fisheries manager.

“To go from when I was a kid and 20 years ago even, from being afraid to go out there to having it be back in tribal hands … is incredible,” he said.

Part of the agreement is that the Yurok Tribe would manage the land to a state of maximum health and resilience, and for that the tribe has big plans, including restoring native prairie, using fire to control understory growth, removing invasive species, restoring native fish habitat, and undoing decades of land-use changes from the logging industry in the form of culverts and logging roads.

“And maybe all that’s not going to be done in my lifetime,” said McCovey. “But that’s fine, because I’m not doing this for myself.”

The Yurok Tribe were recently at the center of the nation’s largest dam removal, a two decades-long campaign to remove a series of four hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River. Once the West Coast’s third-largest salmon run, the Klamath dams substantially reduced salmon activity.

Completed last September, the before and after photographs are stunning to witness. By late November, salmon had already returned far upriver to spawn, proving that instinctual information had remained intact even after a century of disconnect.

Pictured; Klamath River flows freely, after Copco-2 dam was removed in California

“Seeing salmon spawning above the former dams fills my heart,” said Joseph L. James, chairman of the Yurok Tribe, the leaders of the dam removal campaign along with the Karuk and Klamath tribes.

“Our salmon are coming home. Klamath Basin tribes fought for decades to make this day a reality because our future generations deserve to inherit a healthier river from the headwaters to the sea.”

Last March, GNN reported that the Yurok Tribe had also become the first of America’s tribal nations to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding involving Redwoods National Park.

The nonprofit Save the Redwoods bought a piece of land adjacent to the park, which receives 1 million visitors annually and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, and handed it over to the Yurok for stewardship.

The piece of land, which contained giant redwoods, recovered to such an extent that the NPS has incorporated it into the Redwoods trail network, and the two agencies will cooperate in ensuring mutual flourishing between two properties and one ecosystem.

Back at Blue Creek, AP reports that work has already begun clearing non-native conifer trees planted for lumber. The trunks will be used to create log jams in the creek for wildlife habitat.

Costing $56 million, the land was bought from the loggers by Western Rivers Conservancy, using a mixture of fundraising efforts including private capital, low interest loans, tax credits, public grants and carbon credit sales.

The sale was part of a movement called Land Back, which involves returning ownership of once-native lands of great importance to tribes for the sake of effective stewardship. [Note: This is a weirdly limited definition of Land Back. Land Back means RETURN STOLEN LAND, PERIOD.] Studies have shown around the tropics that indigenous-owned lands in protected areas have higher forest integrity and biodiversity than those owned by national governments.

Land Back has seen 4,700 square miles—equivalent to one and a half-times the size of Yellowstone National Park—returned to tribes through land buy-back agreements in 15 states." [Note: Since land buyback agreements aren't the only form of Land Back, the total is probably (hopefully) more than that.]

-via Good News Network, June 10, 2025

[delightfuldevin]

Forgot to mention that I saw on SplatNet that next weekend will be a gold rotation with the Triumvirate! Third chance to beat them!!

[olderthannetfic]

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I'm talking about a book I have read (I got an ARC so that I could leave my own review), which you quite obviously have not, and yes, that informs my opinion of the text.

Spoilers beyond this point, though it is all stuff that the author felt she had to put on twitter just in an attempt to stem the tide of harassment, though it didn't work and she ended up locking her account.

If Pocahontas ended with Pocahontas realizing that John Smith was guilty of far greater horrors than she had actually been aware of, and then she killed him in the sequel and ended up married to someone from her tribe, I wouldn't call that movie a colonizer romance, either. (Molly revealed the title of the sequel, and if the enemy prince doesn't die given that title and the ending of the first book I will eat my hat.)

And yes, even if she had written a colonizer romance (although much like CoHo's It Ends With Us being marketed as a romance when it wasn't, the turn of the novel's plot was supposed to be a hard-hitting plot twist that reveals the novel is not at all what it was initially painted as because that is part of the story being told--the FMC deluding herself until she can't anymore), she wouldn't deserve to be harassed for it, but like... it is genuinely important to note that the plot twist was framed in the reviews in question as if it were somehow a romanticized war crime and not the blatant horror that it is. That's why there's an objection to it being labeled this way by people who did read it, but apparently missed the big glaring neon sign saying everything you thought you knew this series would be about is wrong.

If the enemy prince in question gets a redemption at all, I will be very surprised. I heavily suspect, based on framing throughout the story and the way the ostensibly 'central romance' shatters in the third act, that her actual main romantic interest is another character in the story she is enemies with at the start, but who is one of her people, not the enemy nation. Which, again, will not make it a 'colonizer romance' at all, but a story of the horrors of colonization and war and what can lead someone to becoming a collaborator, hoping to be able to at least save her own family, and ultimately realizing that the only way to survive is to fight back.

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[khonichudail]

ok random opnion but i hate when someone's entire personality is being chronically online. It feels weird ngl. Like all the chronically online ppl sorted out in diff category are the same to me. Very 2 dimensional but even 2d charchters have more depth than these npcs.

The first category being the coho lovers smut toxic romance lovers. Been there done that.

the second category often mixed w the first category is Taylor Swift Harry styles and pop music lovers. been there done that. (still love these two fr they're great)

the third category is my brdr the hindutva #jaat gangster #desihai #haryanvi type of ppl. It's j cringe and lame. stfu u are annoying.

the fourth category is men who say shit like women. or women detected opnion rejected. These are also often mixed w the third category.

The fifth category is the v political person who thinks they know everything and looks down on everyone.

I can litreally go on and on ab these categories.

Maybe I'm j in a hating ppl mood because like wtf is this post sneha 🤡⁉️

[amies-books]

welcome to my blog <3

Welcome! I wanted to do a little "meet the blogger" before I started posting reviews so here it issssssss. (I suck at talking about myself so we're dong this Rapid-Fire-Style) 

The Basics

I'm 23 and a Capricorn through and through

I'm a mama to a sassy two ear old that thinks she's twenty-two

I live in NC with my hubby, our daughter, and our 3 pups.

I love anything crafty but especially knitting, decorating my planner, and doing puzzles. (are puzzles considered crafty? probably not BUT I still love them all the same.)

I love playing cozy games on my switch and sometimes on my PC!

I work in marketing and I'm able to work from home full time so I spend my "work hours" on Facebook, Instagram, and Canva of course.

My Books

I'm not too picky about the genres I read but I am a "hype fixating mood reader" so I pick one genre and stick to it for a month or so before switching.

1100% believe a bad day or bad mood can be fixed by laying in bed with a cozy blanket and a good book.

Some of my favorite genres are Romance, Thriller, Fantsay/ Romantasy, horror/scify, and cozy mysteries.

Ilove well written spice in my books.. especially if theres also an age-gap, fake dating, or grumpyxsunshine.

I'm president of the "Ban-Third-Act-Breakups" club.

I also enjoy a good "taboo" book every once in a while (like Tampa or Tender is the Flesh)

I am anti pregnancy-trope and also have a strongggg dislike for second chance romances.

Also, if I book has infidelity or a "home-wrecker" in it, I will instantly DNF.

My Reading Journey

• My reading journey as an adult started with seeing Haley Pham read The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager. I was a new mom looking for something to do as a hobby that was just for me so I decided to order a copy and try out reading. I ended up finishing that book 48 hours after is was delivered and I was HOOKED. From there, I tried It Ends With Us by CoHo and then tried Birthday Girl Penelope Douglas. Not long after, I became addicted to buying and collecting books. So, now a little over a year later, I have over 350 books in my personal library and have read about 140 books!

I'm so excited to start posting on here and sharing my book reviews and recommendations! If you've read this far, I appreciate you and hope you have a wonderful day 🫶🏻

[andrew-shippin]

Okay, someone in a heart attack support group that I follow asked about my diet since my 4 heart attacks in March. Additionally, because of my "cavalier attitude" about what happened in March many people seem to think I am not taking the four attacks very seriously. The truth is I am taking them extremely seriously. However, I prefer not to wallow in depression, and what could have happened. Rather, even though it's more challenging, would prefer to look to the lighter side, and try to move forward. An evening meal such as this one I prepared last night, is growing more and more common for my dinner these days. It's a baby #spinach #salad with low sodium wontons, and a tablespoon of Blue Cheese dressing and another of Raspberry Walnut. The fish is smoked #Coho #Salmon. My choice of Beer is a was single Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald #Porter. This is the third time I have had this 10 minute meal combo, and it is actually very tasty. It's true there are even healthier meals than this, however when you consider the processed garbage that was passing as my dinner in the recent past it is a massive improvement.

[mollyrabus03]

Sound Salmon Solutions: Education Intern - Molly Rabus

Hello everyone! This is Molly, and I am interning with Sound Salmon Solutions as one of their Education Interns.

Sound Salmon is a Salmon Conservation Non-Profit run out of Mukilteo, WA. Their office is about 10 minutes away from their actual hatchery, but along with everyone else at Sound Salmon, I do a lot of work in their office. It’s a pretty decent trip to Mukilteo every Thursday morning. I have to leave between 6:40-50 am in order to get there between 7-7:30 am. This has been quite the adjustment for someone like me who likes to stay up late and wake up late, but I am adjusted (sort of). Once I am there, I stay up here for an entire 10 hour work day! Brittany, my site supervisor, usually has some tasks for me once I get there, and then I leave to whatever elementary school we are teaching at that day. I drive to the school with another teacher, usually either Susan or Megan, and we usually have our first lesson at 9:30 am. After an hour lesson, we usually have a lunch break, and teach the second lesson at around 11 am-12 pm. We have three lessons we teach; lesson 1 which goes over basic salmon knowledge, ecology, and human interactions with the land in relation to salmon. Our second lesson is centered around an activity, or rather a model, that allows students to act as salmon journeying through the salmon life cycle. They find that it is VERY hard to be a salmon in this world, especially with human-made threats like dams, pollution, and over-fishing. I have seen many-a-tears in this game, but it is a really fun one to do (and of course the kids always love it). The third and final lesson is a wrap-up of what we have learned, leaving kids with the knowledge to be fantastic salmon stewards by educating others on the impacts on salmon and doing what they can to keep our waters clean.

 I have been to and helped teach at Spruce Elementary, Cherry Hill Elementary, Carnation Elementary, and Columbia Elementary. Overall, I would say that Carnation Elementary is my favorite school because I really enjoyed the teachers there. As a part of the Salmon In School’s program, many schools are granted a tank of Coho eggs to take care of for about 3 months, helping them to mature enough to be released into a local body of water (usually a creek system). The teachers at Carnation are amazing and treat/care for the salmon babies so well. It’s really amazing to see how much they care about their fish in light of having already so many responsibilities and tasks on their plates. When lessons are done, we head back to the office where I work on more tasks until 5 pm. One of the most common tasks that I’ve gotten very acquainted with, is testing the water quality of their tank, and completing a ~10 gal water change. I test the PH, Ammonia, Nitrate, and Nitrite levels. Since a tank is not able to naturally filter new water through, a water change is needed to keep the salmon at comfortable levels. The most common is a high PH, which is often what we have to remedy in schools with a PH balancing solution or a change in water. A large problem with school tanks was a high PH, and we found out it was because of their sink water being out of a normal range.

One interesting thing I’ve found out while working with my organization is how many women and non-binary folk are a part of this specific organization. As a woman, I immediately felt so safe and welcome. They are all super sweet and it has been nothing but lovely to me working in the same office. Additionally, they love to bring their dogs to work! It just gets better and better! My favorite dog has got to be Indigo, she is a sweet chocolate lab that loves to greet everyone and sleep in her little cot next to her owner’s desk. It is such an awesome vibe there and I am going to miss it so much.

One challenge I faced in my internship is just managing my time with SSS, my other classes, my capstone research, and my personal wellbeing. Burnout is something I’ve been struggling with, and it is especially more challenging to stay on top of things when seasonal depression is trying to pull me down. I’ve also been dealing with a lot of family stressors that have made it more difficult to stay on top of my game, but I am adamant that things will get better. I am receiving support from my site supervisor, P Sean, my faculty advisor, my friends and roommates, and my family. Things look a little daunting with it being week 8 and I have yet to complete data collection (interviews with teachers) but I am taking steps to make sure I get things done in time. Teachers are busy and don’t want to add extra stuff to their plates, but I am going to continue reaching out to a select few who are most likely to offer help (based on advice from Brittany) as well as my own connections to environmental educators I have interned with before (shout out to Kim and Chris from Wolf Camp). I am also keeping a calendar of important deadlines I need to hit in order to stay on top of my schoolwork, deliverable deadlines, and internship work.

Q1: Based on my research question, what do you feel are the best ways to teach the subject of climate change to elementary schoolers? Please elaborate on a time you feel that you were taught climate change in an effective and engaging way (whether it be elementary school, science camp, or a college class).

Q2: In light of Trump’s defunding of federal environmental organizations and the acceleration of climate change, how can nonprofits, such as Sound Salmon Solutions, better adapt to a changing political AND environmental climate? What will happen if we don’t take effective action, and what does effective action look like?

Pictured: Megan, one of the educators at Sound Salmon, showing me how to feed the fingerlings at the hatchery.

Pictured: Said fingerings are being counted and their weight measured to figure out how much they should be fed.

Pictured: Exciting stuff! (Apologies for the blurriness).

[fortuna-majoris]

To anyone who wants recs or wants to know what is worth reading

1. Haunting Adeline: I haven't read it so no opinion

2. Cruel Prince: I personally liked all three of the books but if you want romance, it might not be your cup of tea because it mainly focuses on politics and how to get the throne with romance as sub plot. Bamf fl and a malewife ml. (ML did bully FL but FL got back to him by poisoning his food with salt, also you might not like the ML in the beginning but he grows on you). It was a 4/5 for me (could've had more romance but its just me)

3. SJM: Tried reading but slept after just one chapter

4. Ice Breaker: There are two stories with the same name, one is mlm rivals to lovers and the other one features a straight couple. Idk much about the straight one but the mlm one is good. Not world changing good but it is worth a read. It is a rivals to lovers ice hockey romance between two players on the same college team but are rivals for the 'First Pick of their season' 3.5/5 (not very memorable tbh, good and cute story but not memorable)

5. SHoEH: A very good book with good bisexual representation. Features heavy homophobia (internal and external) and the concept of domestic abuse (emotional and physical) by an ex-partner. Lavender marriages, spouse death, the cost of being a bisexual starlet during a severely homophobic era. Misogyny. Kinda dark but it is a very good read so 5/5.

5. AGGTM: I would recommend this to anyone who wants to get into the Crime genre of YA literature. As a desi girl, I loved the desi rep in this series and how in the first book, the FL calls out a reporter who is obviously a racist towards a dead desi guy. Love the formatting of the book where we read FL's thoughts as well as her murder board/log. It contains, animal death, murder committed by a MC, graphical murder committed in front of FL, Blackmail, Stalking, Threats, Sexual Assualt, Drug abuse (off screen) and trafficking, bullying and its affects, Murder threats, Sexual relationship with teachers (it is gross she was 17/18 and he was a widower and had a daughter her age), abusive relationship (marriage and parental abuse (verbal)), body shaming, aftermath of rape, racism. A solid 5/5 (I hate/love the ending of the third book because it is so on point for the series and I am not even kidding)

6. CoHo: Read one chapter of It End's with Us and dropped it because it was so bad but many of my classmates love her works and also I have read better fanfics than her books. 0.5/5

7. Anna Huang: Read one of her books (Twisted Hate) and tbh, you need to turn off your brain and only switch it on during smut scenes. This is for the people who want unrealistic smut scenes but with regular humans and nor fae or any other mythical creatures. The FL was a snarky character and I did love love the banter between the FL and ML but that was it. 2/5 (my dirty talk peeps will love the smut scenes)

I haven't read any of the other mentioned so I have no opinions on them but here are a few books I would recommend (most of them are ya and don't really feature smut)

1. Made in Korea (Sarah Suk): Asian rep, sneaky business tactics and rival business owners to lovers. FL's uncle works in some Korean beauty factory and sends her and her sister products every month and they sell that product in their school (they do have a pretty successful business tbh). The ML(who has recently joined the school)'s mother is an agent for a kpop band or smth and gives her son their merch/beauty products to give to his friends in his new school. He starts selling them and enroaches FL's market. Love this book 4.5/5 (this was the book that actually got me into ya romance tbh)

2. Today, Tonight, Tomorrow (Rachel Lynn Solomon): Jewish rep, overachiever FL, academic rivals to lovers except this is like their last day in school. Their school has a tradition that the Juniors will organise a city wide treasure hunt/hunting game (not literally, the players have an armband and each get a name of their year mate they have to take the arm band of the person they have and after that, the victims target becomes their target) a day before their graduation. The FL plans to defeat the ML in this game because he became the Valedictorian instead of her. She overhears a classmate of theirs planning to defeat her and the ML along with a few others in their class and also overhears an anti-Semitic comment about her. The ML and the FL team up and she discovers that everything, including the ML, has layers and maybe it is ok not to plan everything. The FL is also a huge romance books fan and wants to become an author in that genre (her parents write books for children and tweens, mom writes and dad illustrates) and everyone shames romance books so she hasn't told anyone about it. This book will change your whole worldview on romance literature and how it is actually very rooted in misogyny for people to shame romance books. 5.5/5 (I absolutely loved the chemistry between the leads and also loved her relationship with her friends and family) (contains smut at the end) (also anything by RLS is amazing)

Regret it or was it worth it?

[weather-usa]

Climate of Minnesota

Minnesota has a diverse climate, with the northern two-thirds experiencing a humid continental climate characterized by warm summers and icy winters, while the southern portion falls under the hot-summer subtype, with hot summers and cold winters. Proximity to Lake Superior and the state's latitudes play significant roles in shaping its climate.

The best time to visit Minnesota is from May to September, covering late spring, summer, and early autumn. During this period, the Great Lakes contribute to pleasant temperatures, making it ideal for outdoor activities. Fall, in particular, offers beautiful foliage and mild temperatures, attracting crowds to enjoy the scenery and engage in fishing and hunting.

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On the flip side, the worst time to visit Minnesota is during the winter months from December to February. Severe cold, heavy snowfall, and blizzards characterize this season, particularly in the northern highlands near Lake Superior. Short days and limited sunshine hours add to the challenges of winter travel.

Spring in Minnesota marks a transition from cold to warm weather, with temperatures gradually rising and supporting the growth of lush landscapes. Summer brings warm to hot conditions, with occasional rainfall and hailstorms. Autumn delights with vibrant colors and cooling temperatures before winter sets in.

Winter in Minnesota is dominant, with temperatures plummeting and heavy snowfall blanketing the landscape. Ice storms are common in the south, while the north experiences prolonged periods of snow cover. It's a challenging time marked by extreme cold and snowy conditions.

Minnesota's original vegetation comprised needleleaf forests, hardwood forests, and tallgrass prairies. The northeastern third of the state was covered by needleleaf forests, featuring pine, spruce, fir, and tamarack in bog areas. The Big Woods, a belt of hardwoods, stretched from southeastern Minnesota to the Canadian border, consisting primarily of oak, maple, basswood, and other species like ash, elm, cottonwood, and box elder along stream valleys. South and west of the hardwood forest lay the tallgrass prairie, much of which has been cleared for agriculture and urbanization, although about one-third of Minnesota remains dominated by second-growth forests.

See Weather Forecast for Minnesota today: https://weatherusa.app/minnesota

See more: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/07/weather/weather-changes-total-solar-eclipse-climate/index.html

Minnesota is home to a diverse range of mammals, with species like deer, foxes, raccoons, porcupines, minks, weasels, skunks, muskrats, woodchucks, and squirrels commonly found throughout the state. Species such as black bears, moose, elk, wolves, coyotes, lynx, bobcats, otters, and beavers are predominantly found in the northern regions. The state also boasts a variety of bird species, including year-round residents like chickadees, woodpeckers, grosbeaks, nuthatches, cardinals, sparrows, and jays, as well as migratory songbirds like robins, orioles, thrushes, meadowlarks, and red-winged blackbirds. Migratory waterfowl such as ducks, geese, gulls, coots, herons, and egrets are common, with the common loon serving as the official state bird.

Minnesota's waters are home to a diverse array of fish species, with the walleye designated as the state fish and being the most popular catch among anglers. Other important game fish include northern pike, muskellunge, bass, lake trout, crappie, sunfish, and eelpout. Brown and rainbow trout are found in many streams, while the deep, cold waters of Lake Superior contain species like lake trout, whitefish, coho and chinook salmon, steelhead, smelt, herring, and ciscoes.

Minnesota's soils vary in fertility and composition based on the region's original vegetation. The most fertile soils developed under the original grasslands of the south and west, enriched with organic matter and soluble minerals. Soils beneath the original coniferous forest in northeastern Minnesota are light-colored, acidic, and low in organic matter. In contrast, soils under the original hardwood forest, which formed between the prairie and the coniferous forest, exhibit intermediate characteristics in color and natural fertility.

The climate in Minnesota exhibits significant temperature variations seasonally and regionally. Southern Minnesota experiences hot summers, while frost is possible in any month in the northern regions. See more: https://weatherusa.app/zip-code/weather-55408

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In July, average daily maximum temperatures range from the mid-80s F (about 29 °C) in southern Minnesota to the low 70s F (about 21 °C) along the shore of Lake Superior. In January, average daily highs range from the mid-20s F (about -4 °C) in the south to about 15 °F (about -9 °C) in the north, with record-breaking lows occasionally occurring. For example, in 1996, a temperature of -60 °F (about -51 °C) was recorded near the northeastern city of Tower. The frost-free period varies from fewer than 90 days in parts of the north to more than 160 days in parts of the south.

Annual precipitation ranges from less than 20 inches (500 mm) in the northwest to more than 30 inches (750 mm) in the southeast. Seasonal snowfall varies from less than 40 inches (1,000 mm) in the western part of the state to more than 70 inches (1,800 mm) in the northeastern tip. Many areas of Minnesota experience continuous snow cover for at least 90 days, typically from mid-December to mid-March.

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[orubyru]

Salmon in Schools!

Hey yall! I hope your internships have been as fun as mine. I’ve been having a blast over at Sound Salmon Solutions, an RFEG (Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group) in Mukilteo, as an Education Intern. Every Wednesday, I get up at 5am (yeeesh), make my breakfast and lunch, and leave the house at 6am to drive to our Mukilteo office. Once I get to the office, I usually have a bit of time to do some water quality checks on our home salmon tank (pH, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate levels) and then I meet with the education team (and Faith, the other PoE intern, shout out Faith!) to go over the day. We visit one school a day, sometimes going to multiple classrooms. SSS’ Salmon in Schools programs provides the schools with a salmon tank & 100 eggs, and then over the course of a couple months the students get to watch the eggs grow to alevin, then fry, then they get to release the fry in a local stream. I even got to deliver some– I carefully transported these chum eggs from the Stillaguamish tribe hatchery all the way to an elementary school's tank.

 It’s an amazing process that engages and involves Washington schoolchildren directly in measures to protect and promote salmon populations. SSS has three main lessons that they teach: Lesson 1 focuses on the salmon life stages, Lesson 2 is comprised of an outdoor game where kids get to BE salmon and dodge different predators and other dangers like dam turbines, and Lesson 3 focuses on environmental stewardship; the kids get to go outside and make their own mini-rain gardens comprised of a coffee filter, a mason jar, and all sorts of natural resources like rocks and native plants. In addition to the hands-on aspect of this internship, I’ve also been spending a good chunk of my time researching and writing a childrens’ theater script about salmon for SSS! My theater background and time at Seattle Childrens’ Theater inspired me to think differently about how environmental pedagogy can be approached in the classroom and outside of it, and so I’ve been exploring how Theater for Young Audiences can enhance and more deeply engage children in the stories of their local ecosystems. Working title for the script is “Small Fry” but I’ll probably be changing it, haha! Engaging in environmental education in all these different ways, while also getting to know how a nonprofit works and participating in hatchery management has been INVALUABLE. While I don’t know if I’ll end up working at an RFEG, I’ll be taking these lessons with me wherever I head next.

I didn’t grow up in Washington, so I never participated in Salmon in Schools programs or learned about salmon’s importance in the ecosystems of this area. It’s been amazing to learn about the role of hatcheries in raising salmon to replenish and supplement the wild salmon populations, and I’ve also gotten really familiar with the different life stages and physiologies of salmon! Just last week, we helped transfer the fry from their egg trays to the bigger troughs because they were getting WAY TOO BIG for their trays! So I spent the morning freeing the fry from their containers. It was absolutely magical to see 80,000 coho salmon swim in their two troughs. I got a little emotional, even, because I was part of that process. Look how cool!:

While this internship has been really fun, it’s come with some challenges. I’m pursuing departmental honors, so I’m doing 8 credits; this means I’m doing up to 10 hour days out in Mukilteo, then an additional 14ish hours outside of that doing research, writing the script, and doing analysis for SSS every week. It’s been hard to strike a balance and manage my time well, but I’m getting the hang of it now. Also, I’ve been struggling a bit with the script, in a couple ways: First, I have never written a children’s theater script before! AAH! Second, I’m writing it as I go, picking up more salmon knowledge on the job, which is cool but also means that I’m not an expert. Third, I’m struggling with incorporating the Indigenous perspective into the piece. I know that I want to emphasize the Indigenous peoples of Washington as interconnected with the wellbeing of salmon, but being not of Indigenous background myself, I’m hesitant to write those perspectives even though I’ve read a lot about them. I want to go about it in a respectful and holistic way, but right now I’m feeling like I don’t want to overstep or impose my own agenda. I’ve talked to my site supervisor and she said that I should just write and then reflect on it later, rather than get stuck now, so that’s what I’m doing.

Have any of you been feeling similarly about doing environmental work on stolen lands? How have you been grappling with or facing that? How have you been honoring and acknowledging Indigenous peoples of Washington in the work you’re doing in the internship, or in your lives?

[thingsmysplattershotjrtoldme]

had a dream about new Salmon Run waves

First on just had several more bosses, including a half size Coho you had to blow up with explosive crates (it could also hear your location through the switch's mic). Then there was a super hungry one that you ethier had to feed giant rocks to or have one player constant sacrifice themselves to blow him up from over eating. There was a long snake like one (don't remember how to defeat it) and I think like one more new boss to defeat. This was also the only wave that focused on collecting golden eggs

The second wave I don't remember much of aside from collecting pink crystals that apparently powered the egg basket and the Salmonid were collecting them too

The third one had completely docile Salmonids until the last twenty seconds. Basically you had to collect power eggs from trees with the implications that they were fruit instead of eggs. Near the 20 second mark, a player would find an injured Smallfry that would trigger all the Salmonid to immediately go on the defense. There where two ways to defeat this round, one - run like hell to the basket to get picked up by the helicopter, or two - find the biggest cohock and a safe place to give the Smallfry back (unlike story mode you couldn't throw it and it acts like a golden egg with you unable to pick up any other collectable until you deposit it, or give it back to the Salmonid in this case) which would end the wave early and make the Salmonid return to their docile state. This was also the much harder option because all Salmonid entered a rage state that one hit from ANY Salmonid would take you out and keep you from respawning for TEN SECONDS.

Honestly a really cool dream, wish some of the new bosses were real

[da-7-kings]

Coho the third- Well, whatever the truth may be, it looks to be a great landmark.

Borris- Maybe I can wrap myself around that

Joe- That was confusing would oui agree?

Allie- maybe the smallfries I’ve been seeing would like to go there!

Pod- It looks pretty.

Tim & Timmy- LETS RECK IT!!!

Timothy- let’s…. Not….

Zenevr- Whatever. I’ll add that to the list to smite.

SPLATOON LORE FACT OF THE DAY(?):

The Squid Sisters are time-travellers. They have performed for a human audience.

How do I know this?

Well, this promotional art from Japan Expo 2016 depicts them posing in front of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris.

The Eiffel Tower is a human artifact which the Alternans reconstructed because they missed the original.

This is why you can see it sticking out of the Crater in the Splatlands.

The fact that the Squid Sisters are posing in front of a standing, intact Eiffel Tower means they must be taking the photograph in the original, human-inhabited Paris (where the concert took place).

Splatoon's promotional artwork is diegetic, and unless there's something contradictory about it with the game, we can assume it's canon.

The Squid Sisters, therefore, must be time travellers. It could be part of their Agent work, or something (like the telephone which dictates the Splatfest themes, referred to as God in the game files, or ORCA) temporarily BioShock Infinite'd them back in spacetime to human Paris.

Quod erat demonstrandum!

[letluigisaythefword]

i think i just had several strokes, saw a l'manberg flag irl for the first time

so im riding in my dads car to go to board game night, and i look out my window and got a glimpse of a l'manberg flag on someones wall as we passed

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Why Forests Need Salmon

(Originally posted at my blog at https://rebeccalexa.com/why-forests-need-salmon/)

One of my favorite fall activities is to check local streams for salmon runs. Here in the Pacific Northwest, and extending north into Alaska, we have seven species of anadromous Salmonidae: chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta), coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), coastal cutthroat trout  (Oncorhynchus clarkii clarkii), and steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). My favorite run is the chum salmon that run up Ellsworth Creek in southwest Washington each fall, but I’m honestly just happy to see any migrating salmon. And as I hike through stands of ancient western red cedar (Thuja plicata), I like to think about the many ways in which these and other forests need salmon for their ongoing health.

Anadromous fish are those that are born in fresh water, spend much of their adult lives in salt water, and then return to fresh water to spawn. Some, like Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and some populations of American shad (Alosa sapidissima) are iteroparous, meaning they can make this journey multiple times in a lifetime. Pacific salmonids, on the other hand, are semelparous, meaning that they spawn once and then die shortly thereafter. (From here on out I am going to use “salmon” as a general, casual term referring to both the Oncorhynchus species, and the steelhead and cutthroat trout.)

Pacific salmon were originally freshwater fish that inhabited lakes and slow-moving rivers. Somewhere around 25 million years ago, the climate cooled significantly, with average temperatures dropping almost twenty degrees F. We’re not sure at what point after this the salmon began expanding into brackish estuaries and then the Pacific Ocean itself, but when they did they found rich sources of food unlike what they had access to in fresh water. Over time, they evolved a life cycle that let them be born in the relatively safe shelter of freshwater streams, and then go out to the ocean to feast on the banquet found there when they were large enough to have a better chance of survival.

Eventually salmon runs could be found in streams as far inland as eastern Idaho, eastern British Columbia, and the southern two-thirds of Alaska (with some Alaskan runs even crossing over into Canada!) And until the arrival of European colonizers, these streams consistently provided indigenous people all along the Pacific coastline an incredibly important source of food, cultural and economic trade, mythos, and more. Unfortunately, the newcomers overharvested the salmon, dammed and destroyed streams and other habitat, and of course spearheaded the causes of anthropogenic climate change.

Indigenous people fish for salmon at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River. As the single longest continuously inhabited community in North America (over 15,000 years!), this location was a home and hub of cultural activity for many indigenous tribes and communities across the region before it was flooded by the completion of the Dalles Dam in 1957.

All these factors have led to a precipitous decline in the size of both salmon runs, and the salmon themselves. This isn’t just detrimental to indigenous communities, though. It also threatens the health of forests all throughout the salmons’ range.

A forest isn’t just made of trees. It’s composed of entire plant communities, fungi (including mycorrhizal species), and the animals, bacteria, and other living beings that share space with them. When salmon travel up and down the waterways as fry, and then later to spawn as adults, they have a direct impact on that ecosystem.

Salmon fry are an important source of food for larger fish, amphibians, birds, and other beings that seek food in the water. In fact, part of why salmon lay so many eggs (over 5,000 in the case of chinook!) is because most of the fry that hatch will never make it to adulthood. But adult salmon aren’t safe from predation on their return trip to their birthplaces. In fact, they are caught and eaten by a wide variety of animals from bears to eagles, wolves to osprey, sea lions to bobcats.

Bears are of particular interest here. Brown bears (Ursus arctos) are well-known for gorging on summer and fall salmon runs to build up massive amounts of fat in preparation for winter hibernation. (Katmai National Park even celebrates their bears during Fat Bear Week every October!) You can watch video feeds of several bears hanging out in their favorite fishing spots by waterfalls and in the flow of the river.

Imagine that you are a young bear, perhaps recently forced to independence by your mother who is now focused on your younger siblings. You have to not only start catching fish without her protection from bigger bears, but you also need to make sure those stronger bears don’t steal your catch. What’s the best thing to do? Run far away into the woods to eat your salmon in peace, then leave the remains among the trees and head back for more.

If the fishing is good, bears will often eat only the fattiest parts of the salmon like the brains and skin, and then leave the rest behind for scavengers. The nutrients in the salmon then disseminate throughout the forest, whether carried in the digestive systems of animals, or broken down in place by decomposers. This helps make the nutrients available to the plants, particularly trees which may store massive amounts of nutrients in their trunks; when the trees die, they essentially become a food pantry for younger beings like new seedlings, fungi, and so forth.

Now–what’s so special about the nutrients in salmon? Well, remember that these fish spend years out in the ocean. And the ocean has an entirely different balance of nutrients floating around in it compared to what’s found in fresh water or on land. The salmon are essentially the only way these ocean-borne nutrients can make their way into the forest in any meaningful amount, and they do so on a regular basis each year. The trees near salmon runs fished by bears may be 300% larger than usual, and salmon also provide nearly three quarters of the nitrogen in the forest. That’s a pretty impressive contribution!

This isn’t just about how forests need salmon; it’s a reciprocal relationship. While the salmon’s immediate habitats are aquatic, these streams, rivers, and other waterways are directly affected by what happens on the land around them.

Every waterway has a watershed–an area of land from which precipitation drains into that waterway. These watersheds nest within each other; the watersheds of small streams are nested within the watersheds of the rivers the streams feed into. That water carries things with it, from soil to pollutants. So the health of the land has a direct impact on what is found in the water.

But it goes beyond what’s washed downstream, and into how it’s washed down. In a healthy forest, for example, the soil is able to absorb a significant amount of precipitation that falls throughout the year, keeping it from simply cascading down hillsides to create flooding and landslides. Water is also stored in the various living beings in the forest; again trees are often the champions with their great size, but smaller plants help with water retention quite a bit as well, both through internal storage and preventing evaporation from soil. A forest that is badly damaged, such as through a clearcut or wildfire, won’t hold water as well. This can lead to floods, landslides and other erosion, and increase the impact of summer droughts as the land simply can’t store as much water, or for as long.

All of this affects the salmon directly. If the watershed is no longer holding and releasing snowmelt, rain, and other water in a controlled manner, this can lead to flooding in waterways which can wash away salmon eggs and fry. Increased erosion buries the gravel that salmon lay eggs in with silt, smothering the eggs so they never hatch. When a riparian zone–the land along a waterway–is stripped of vegetation, the water loses crucial shaded areas that keep temperatures cool. Salmon easily overheat when temperatures rise even a few degrees. And drought can dry up smaller streams, stranding and even killing young salmon while preventing adults from reaching their spawning grounds.

While not every single salmon run exclusively travels through forests, many of them do. And many spawning grounds are found in forests, or at least areas with significant tree cover in riparian zones. Salmon must have healthy forests in order to continue to survive, and the loss of these forests is just one of many factors contributing to their severe decline.

Thankfully, I am far from the only person concerned about the safety of our wild Pacific salmon. There are numerous organizations working to protect and restore salmon habitat through dam removal, preservation and restoration of aquatic habitat and surrounding land, regulations on salmon fishing, and educating people about sustainable seafood options (or just not eating seafood at all.) And even habitat restoration efforts that aren’t directly in salmon-inhabited waterways still have a positive impact on the forest ecosystem as a whole.

We know that forests need salmon, and salmon need forests. To protect one is to protect the other, and long may they both thrive.

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[sunnypogue]

buttons (part one)

here’s the start of my coho!rafe + bratty girlfriend series. i’d like to thank every obx cast member who posted pictures of drew this week for the inspiration. if you have a particular idea or scene or trope or whatever you wanna see outta this, hit me up. i’m thinking it’ll just be a lot of smutty one shots - but this is the all important opening scene.

read part two HERE.

warnings: 18+ (minors do not interact with my blog thank you!)

“I thought you left your card at home?”

You glanced down at your hands, two drinks sloshing around as you navigated your way back to your boyfriend.

Shrugging, you passed one off, taking a long sip from yours before speaking.

“I did, but I know the bartender here. He hooked it up.” You took another sip. “Really hooked it up, actually. This shit is strong.”

Rafe leaned down to sip at your straw, fending off your weak swats to his shoulder. “Jesus – is that tequila and rum?”

You shrugged again, pulling the drink close to your chest. “Like I said – he hooked it up.”

Rafe rolled his eyes, swinging an arm around your shoulder. “Friends in high places, I guess.” He went to sip at his significantly weaker drink, condensation running down his arm as he tipped the glass back. “How do you know him?”

“We went on a couple dates.” You glanced up at your boyfriend, gauging his reaction. “Before I met you. Obviously.”

Clenching his jaw, Rafe stared straight forward, shoving his empty glass onto the high top next to him. “Define a couple.”

“Relax,” you chided, patting his chest. “Like two. We met at a party, he wasn’t bartending yet, clearly didn’t work out because,” you paused to gesture at Rafe. “I’m obviously with you now.”

“But you still talk to him.” Rafe grumbled, “Or get dangerously strong drinks from him. For free.”

“This coming from the guy who almost put me in the hospital with the amount of vodka he put in my drink last weekend?” You shot through a grin, relishing in the fact that your boyfriend was getting a bit territorial.

“That was meant for Clark and you know it. And I don’t see how that matters considering I was there to make sure you were fine and bartender boy over there is just giving you alcohol poisoning with zero supervision!” Rafe yelled, eyes flicking over to the bar.

“Okay dad,” You rolled your eyes, finishing the rest of your drink.

You closed your eyes briefly, letting the buzz roll through you, swaying gently to the Peaches remix blasting in the background. When you opened your eyes, you met your boyfriend’s unamused glare. Your stomach flipped.

“You really wanna go there?” He growled, leaning into your space. To a third party, it would look like he was leaning in to be heard over the music, body language confident.

You, however knew exactly where this was headed – and while you knew you were pushing Rafe’s buttons with your nonchalant attitude, you couldn’t help but match his posture, leaning in and looking up with a grin,

“Where we goin’, daddy?”