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Cake day: September 19th, 2023

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  • It is true though that individuals often just can only do with what their system incentivizes. In Texas, we have open land valuation, and you can do that for wildlife, but strangely, for many counties, you have to do ag valuation first. So you fuck up your land for 5 years overstocking it to get the headcount they require, then you can start doing bat shelters, monarch & other migratory animal plants, brush management to create more “edge”, etc.

    Luckily, for under 20 acres, my county allows bees, and they count native boxes as a “hive”. The 8 boxes count for 7 acres the way 25 goats or 5 cow/calf pairs would, somehow. I am almost done with my valuation using only those, and the rest we just let do whatever since we work so much. And the best part is there are several species using them at least, which I wasn’t sure of. I just used logs from a downed cedar hung from trees.

    Some of that you can do in conjunction, and this landowner could have been better served talking to the USDA NRCS first to balance his goals with conservation. They can help pay, but they also make you do it super right, so you won’t necessarily save money.

    I don’t think this is good cattle land anyways, that part blew my mind. I associate that kind of land with hunting, just a few senderos cut from your stand and maybe thin cedar for water usage, leave the rest. I didn’t realize people were doing this.
















  • Pasting from my reply to a PM I just received:

    You need a client, provider, and nzb indexer.

    I use SabNZBD, Eweka.nl, and nzbgeek. It’s about $70/yr or so for the two subscriptions.

    You will configure the download client to use the provider for its connection, but the nzbs you download will tell your client which messages contain the files.

    You can search the indexer and download files that way as if you were using a torrent site. But it is really smooth and easy to use with sonarr or radarr fetching things for you. In that case, you would configure those fetchers to log into the indexer to search then send the NZB to your client automatically.