14 signs you were born and raised in british columbia

petros

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Maybe where cliffy is. On the coast there are pines in 80 year old second growth.

Around Whistler freshly planted clear cuts were the best places to hit.

When the duff if burned off in a prescribed burn and/or the land is scarified, it will take hundreds of years for the mycelium of a pine to make a come back. Although I live in a rare inland temperate rain forest. the climate is drying up because of extensive logging. On the coast the moisture comes of the ocean but this far inland a lot of it is generated by the ecosystems. Ocean moisture has to jump over the arid Okanagan to get here.

No it won't. The mycelium loves char, green rot, and dead roots.
 

Cliffy

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Kind of interesting that they need 500-1000 years to grow back when the original forest is more like 250 years old.
There are old growth trees here that were as old as 3000 years old around the Galena Bay/Trout Lake areas. There is less that 5% of the old growth left in the Arrow Lakes. The flooding of the Arrow Lakes has also radically changed the climate here. The lake no longer freezes over in winter and we get about 1/3rd to 1/4 of the average snow fall as we did about 40 years ago. The average anual temperature are also higher so the cliamte may not be conducive to the pine mushrooms recovery.
 

Cliffy

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3000 years ago was too hot.
Tell that to the trees that were there with butts in the 12 - 16 foot diameter range. There were trees there that sprouted before JC was supposedly born. Have you ever been to this area? An inland temperate rain forest is an oddity. It doesn't follow the same rules as other areas. And no, Pine mushrooms do not recover that fast. You must be thinking of some other species.
 

Cliffy

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It it's not the same species as 3000 years ago and it wasn't a micro rainforest 3000 years ago.
And you know this because...? Are you a climatologist? The trees that are there tell the story of there existence in their growth rings. They have been counted. They lived that long and there are still a few left living there.
 

petros

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If you want to know what your region looked like 3000 years ago, look at north west Washington today.

How do I know? I've learned a lot from people in every discipline under the sun who are fascinated with the goings on from surface to bedrock who tag along to get a peak at exploration tailings analyzing everything that has happened in that place for millions of years.

How about you?

If you figure there is a mycelium shortage, go buy a few boxes and inoculate. Monsanto sells it.

Monsanto BioAg | DEKALB

http://mycorrhizae.com/
 

Twila

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B.C Where you can go snowshoeing in the morning and swim in a lake in the afternoon.

Where you can ski Cypress bowl in pants and a halter top.

Black Mountain (Eagle Ridge), at the top you can watch the clouds float below you.

Stawanamous Cheif, Granite monolith. You can climb 3 peaks and watch rock climbers coming up. We did second and third peak last year and there was a hiking group there and the youngest person was 60yrs old.
 

petros

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BC where panhandling is a good paying job.

BC where jibrats scurry around stealing copper wire.

BC Where people smoke indoor weed and eat salad year round and call themselves green.

BC where nobody speaks the language.
 

JLM

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BC where panhandling is a good paying job.

BC where jibrats scurry around stealing copper wire.

BC Where people smoke indoor weed and eat salad year round and call themselves green.

BC where nobody speaks the language.

BUT B.C. by far the best province in Canada.:)
 

Cannuck

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17. You own 5 BRIC shares
18. Your favorite concert was at the Commodore Ballroom
19. You know who JP Patches was
20. You get a sinking feeling when you hear the name Cam Neely

Cam Neely.... Worst trade in the history of the NHL. I was a Nucks fan until that day.