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Gridpunk retweeted
So one divides the message about Bison. This might help.
First is the valuable part they play in the environment. They are able to help restore thousand of acres of land which have experienced various forms of neglect. The land is healing and the Bison are the first step. Several areas in various states have experienced the healing power of Bison land management. Think of your Bison fibers being added to ones garden.
Second the Bison restore the circle of life in that all the natural order of wild animals across the lands. They also requires less chemical to remain healthy no antibiotics. Other animal were are dependent on the bison soil management methods. Served as warning sign when things and how it goes bad it can be fixed. The ranchers who raise the respect the animals and the land.
Third They taste great and serve as a valuable high protein source too. thanks to the managements skill of thousands of ranchers.
Fourth a source of economic diversity, candles, soap, jewelry, hides, socks you have a list
Disappointing development.
No one likes hearing about bison being removed from the prairie, especially in Montana, where they’re part of our national story.
But the DOI’s decision to revoke bison grazing permits in Phillips County raises a question about how we manage public lands. Here’s some context:
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In the bitter winter of 1937, deep in the snow-bound forest of the Butovo firing range outside Moscow, another truckload of prisoners arrived under cover of darkness. Among them were priests, some young, some aged, including an old bishop whose beard glittered with frost.
The Communist NKVD guards, faces muffled against the cold, marched them to the edge of a long trench already half-filled with the fallen. The ground was frozen solid; the pit waited like an open wound in the earth.
As rifles were raised, the bishop lifted his voice in the Paschal troparion:
“Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death…”
The other priests joined without pause, their hymn rising clear and unbroken against the wind: no cries, no begging, only the ancient proclamation of resurrection.
An officer shouted for silence and struck the bishop across the face. Blood stained the snow, but the old man met his gaze steadily.
“We forgive you, my children,” he said quietly, “for you do not know what you do.”
The shooting began. As each priest fell into the trench, the next took up the hymn exactly where it had left off, the melody passing unbroken from voice to voice until only the bishop remained.
He made the sign of the Cross over the executioners, sang the final line alone, and stepped forward. The last shot echoed into silence.
This particular scene, of chained singing and whispered forgiveness at the pit’s edge, circulates as pious legend among the stories of the New Martyrs. It may not be a verifiable historical fact in the strict sense.
What is certain is far grimmer: at Butovo, during the Great Terror of 1937–1938, more than 20,000 people were executed and buried in mass graves. Among them were hundreds of Orthodox clergy, priests, monks, and bishops, rounded up in waves, accused of counter-revolutionary activity for their faith, and killed with ruthless efficiency. The brutality was real: night transports in “black ravens,” firing squads, shallow trenches layered with bodies, no mercy shown.
A church now stands over the site, its foundations holding small crosses and relics recovered from the earth, a quiet testimony to Christians who were murdered for refusing to renounce their Lord.
Their deaths, whether sung in legend or borne in silence, proclaim the same truth: death could not silence the resurrection.
Christ is risen. Indeed, He is risen! ☦️
There is more to chess than mastery.
Hunting, chess, and golf all fill the exact same societal niche.
They are a way for men from the social classes that require “decorum” and lend towards “Machiavellianism” to discern the deeper nature of the other men in their social circle.
Bobby Fisher tenía razón al decir que el ajedrez estaba mverto porque consistía básicamente en memorización y que el talento natural mucho menos. Se dio cuenta tarde que jugar al ajedrez es de caballeros y que jugar bien es síntoma de una vida desperdiciada.
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My daily mantra, especially on days like today:
“Gridpunk you are a bison guy who is religious and political, not a politics guy, not a religion guy.”
Anyway, bison
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Gridpunk retweeted
Oklahoma chose the bison as its state animal because no other species so clearly connects the land, its first peoples, and its ongoing story. As herds continue to thrive on protected prairies, the meaning behind that choice grows clearer. The bison stands as a reminder that loss is not always final and that recovery is possible when care replaces neglect.
Well lookee here
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins: $700M for Regenerative Agriculture
“Today is about the next step in making America healthy again… and that is talking about regenerative agriculture.”
“Regenerative agriculture is a conservation management approach that emphasizes natural resources through improved soil health, water management, and natural vitality for the productivity and prosperity of American agriculture and all of our communities.”
“Today we are launching a new farmer first regenerative agriculture pilot program, which will invest $700 million specifically to support regenerative agriculture.”
“Protecting and improving the health of our soil is critical not only for the future viability of farmland, but to the future success of American farmers. In order to continue to be the most productive and most efficient growers in the world, we must protect our top soil, from unnecessary erosion and boost the microbiome of the soil.”
“Today's announcement encourages these priorities while supporting farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture if they so choose. This is a farmer's first pilot program and the first of its kind.”
“This initiative puts American farmers first as part of the solution to make America healthy again, and by supporting and by supporting access to American grown whole foods that are critical to addressing the chronic disease crisis nationwide.”
“This new pilot is about results that last. It will make our farms more productive, our land healthier, and our water cleaner.”
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Interesting development
I swear... Colorado just gets better by the day... Colorado already can't manage it's wildlife. Lets turn some of these guys loose and see what happens. Id love to watch.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
We're excited to announce that our Parks and Wildlife Commission has approved new regulations that give bison dual legal classification in accordance with the 2025 Protect Wild Bison Act (SB25-053). Privately-owned bison will continue to be managed as livestock, while free-ranging bison migrating into Colorado will now be recognized as wildlife and classified as a big game species.
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Dope
We can refill the Great Salt Lake.
This month, Rainmaker began the largest cloud seeding project in modern American history. With Utah and Idaho, we are enhancing snowpack across 7,500 square miles of the Bear River Basin.
@RainmakerCorp deployed a fleet of specialized cloud seeding drones, boutique meteorological sensors, and radar across the region. Our dozens of mountaineering Forward Operating Specialists, many of whom were born in Utah, are working around the clock with this hardware to do one thing: make snow.
We do so not merely for better powder days at Rocky Mountain ski resorts. We're working to producing freshwater for over a million people in the region. Their farms, ranches, industry, and even their homes need more water.
Due to decreasing natural precipitation and increased demand for water, the Great Salt Lake is in a deficit of ~400 billion gallons annually. If it continues to dry, not only will Utah and Idaho's economic growth stall and fall, but toxic arsenic particulate from the exposed lakebed will go airborne and cause asthma, bronchitis, and lung cancer throughout the region.
Economizing water us is part of what it means to be a good steward of our God given resources, but reducing consumption alone will not suffice. We must make more water, so @RainmakerCorp will make more snow.
With the research-grade radar, constellation of sensors, and 3rd party assessment from academic institutions, @RainmakerCorp is bringing rigor and physical measurement of our results that is unprecedented in operational cloud seeding history.
Forecasting the weather is difficult, let alone modifying it, and we will face challenges throughout this winter. But, Rainmakers will work diligently and unrelentingly to bring water to the American people and environment across the Bear River Basin. And, we will continue to do so even after we have secured abundant freshwater for generations to come. As the season progresses, we'll update you on our progress.
Thank you to our partners in Utah and Idaho, particularly the state meteorologist, @GovCox , and @GovernorLittle .
Thank you to the Rainmakers (and their families!) that have worked so hard to standup this project. Blessing to work with you all.
Lets make it snow.
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We’re so violent, the only way we know how to save endangered species is by killing them for sport.
And it works. 🇺🇸
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Gridpunk retweeted
The problem isn't support or feasibility, it's will.
We should eliminate ticks.
A grim milestone: the first recorded death as a result of a meat allergy caused by a tick bite. A man ate a hamburger at a BBQ and was dead within an hour. He had almost certainly been bitten weeks before by a lone-star tick, which spreads alpha-gal syndrome, an allergy to a sugar found in mammalian meat.
It's now reckoned that millions could have alpha-gal syndrome in the US, as the range of the lone-star tick has spread.
