Liam Parfitt
@mastodonforest.bsky.social
Slightly feral, interested in all things hyperborean, plus megafaunal extinctions.
Moose generally help out forestry as they are very selective towards deciduous.
April 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Moose generally help out forestry as they are very selective towards deciduous.
Yes. In a warehouse full of bones. Very cool.
April 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Yes. In a warehouse full of bones. Very cool.
I've seen mule deer nibble doug fir and the odd bit of young lodgepole. Likely they can take some mixed with other things. Moose in Ft St James area can handle 50 percent abies.
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I've seen mule deer nibble doug fir and the odd bit of young lodgepole. Likely they can take some mixed with other things. Moose in Ft St James area can handle 50 percent abies.
De extinction doesn't really exist. An Asian elephant with teeth tweaks better fat storage and some hair would be a great start. It's more like ecosystem improvement. Restoration implies going backwards. Rewilding implies proper nutrient cycling and functionality
February 1, 2025 at 5:28 AM
De extinction doesn't really exist. An Asian elephant with teeth tweaks better fat storage and some hair would be a great start. It's more like ecosystem improvement. Restoration implies going backwards. Rewilding implies proper nutrient cycling and functionality
Perhaps you guys should have had a primary. No we are stuck with your man child.
February 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Perhaps you guys should have had a primary. No we are stuck with your man child.
Let's hope the mastodon isn't too far away in the deextinction program!
February 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Let's hope the mastodon isn't too far away in the deextinction program!
It's a bigger problem than people realize. Spruce has high albedo, low biodiversity and high fire hazard, and no predators so extends itself across the boreal. With a mastodon we'd see less fires and much more proteinz biodiversity and carbon storage, and a lower albedo.
February 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
It's a bigger problem than people realize. Spruce has high albedo, low biodiversity and high fire hazard, and no predators so extends itself across the boreal. With a mastodon we'd see less fires and much more proteinz biodiversity and carbon storage, and a lower albedo.
I watched rocky mountain goats which are more related to antelope eat a lot of birch leaves, and mix some abies in, but the seem to avoid spruce, be curious about real goats. Spruce is the least digestible tree there is. In Sweden the moose love pine but won't touch spruce.
February 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I watched rocky mountain goats which are more related to antelope eat a lot of birch leaves, and mix some abies in, but the seem to avoid spruce, be curious about real goats. Spruce is the least digestible tree there is. In Sweden the moose love pine but won't touch spruce.
The biggest difference is that Mastodons could eat spruce, and today nothing can. Canada is about 63 percent spruce currently, and it's much thicker than it was previously. Moose depended on Mastodons to make the forest less sprucey and more deciduous.
January 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The biggest difference is that Mastodons could eat spruce, and today nothing can. Canada is about 63 percent spruce currently, and it's much thicker than it was previously. Moose depended on Mastodons to make the forest less sprucey and more deciduous.
I bet it didn't eat the tips of trees only.
January 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I bet it didn't eat the tips of trees only.
First thing to do is to switch forestry practice away from mimicking large fires to mimicking mega herbivory. A mastodon maybe 30 years away but a change in forestry starts in the morning. Check out moose pellet density in 4 types of forest.
January 31, 2025 at 5:49 AM
First thing to do is to switch forestry practice away from mimicking large fires to mimicking mega herbivory. A mastodon maybe 30 years away but a change in forestry starts in the morning. Check out moose pellet density in 4 types of forest.
Bison latifrons, priscus and bison bison athabaskae are all the same species if a species is when animals can have young. The best news is the Yukon herd is now 250 percent over target and growing rapdily! Here is some winter grazing.
January 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Bison latifrons, priscus and bison bison athabaskae are all the same species if a species is when animals can have young. The best news is the Yukon herd is now 250 percent over target and growing rapdily! Here is some winter grazing.
The issue in the boreal is fires reset to 0 often over 10k hectares. The forest grows all at the same time and often has very limited spacial variation over extremely large areas. Definitely misses the megafauna.
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The issue in the boreal is fires reset to 0 often over 10k hectares. The forest grows all at the same time and often has very limited spacial variation over extremely large areas. Definitely misses the megafauna.
Unlikely this century. One cool thing is the moose were moving in within a months and are helping to keep the willows lateral at 150cm height. It's the biggest browser we have left! Mastodon makes it look small though.
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Unlikely this century. One cool thing is the moose were moving in within a months and are helping to keep the willows lateral at 150cm height. It's the biggest browser we have left! Mastodon makes it look small though.
Perhaps the garden of eden represented when mammal populations were 2 orders of magnitude higher than they were at start of holocene.
January 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Perhaps the garden of eden represented when mammal populations were 2 orders of magnitude higher than they were at start of holocene.
Read this 3 times in last 2 years. He inspired Dr Charles Scweger who wrote this journal article on boreal forests and why they are so different. Changed my life.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379111000357
January 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Read this 3 times in last 2 years. He inspired Dr Charles Scweger who wrote this journal article on boreal forests and why they are so different. Changed my life.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379111000357
We are playing with 20 percent of the tools we used to have.
January 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
We are playing with 20 percent of the tools we used to have.
It can be succinctly argued here that humans did more to change boreal forests 12,000 years ago than they are doing today. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-glacial and interglacial pollen records over the last 3 Ma from northwest Canada: Why do Holocene forests differ from those of previous interglaciations?
We synthesize pollen spectra from eleven dated stratigraphic sections from central and northern Yukon. Palaeomagnetic and tephra dating indicates the …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It can be succinctly argued here that humans did more to change boreal forests 12,000 years ago than they are doing today. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...