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  1. “𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒”, Award-Winning Art 👉 buff.ly/4gIiMXY

    #Appalachians #redbarn #oldbarn #BarnsofAmerica #AwardWinning #fineart #BuyIntoArt #SheliaHuntPhotography

  2. Name for Southern Appalachian antifascist organization:

    Hellbenders

    "We're not going straight to hell. We'll take the scenic route."

    @redstateinsurgents

    #Hellbenders #TVAC #RedStateInsurgents #Appalachians #Antifa #Antifascist #AntifaAF #ResInt

  3. Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the #Pyrocene

    by Stephen Pyne, The Conversation, January 22, 2025

    "#LosAngeles is burning, but it isn't alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in #Colorado, the southern #Appalachians and the island of #Maui, along with #Canada, #Australia, #Portugal and #Greece. What wasn't burned was smoked in.

    "Is this another case of a future not only dire but strange, without a narrative to join past to present or an analog for what is to come?

    "I'm a historian of fire, and my reply is that we have both a narrative and an analog. The narrative is the unbroken saga of humanity and fire, a companionship that extends through all our existence as a species. The analog is that humanity's fire practices have become so vast, especially in recent centuries, that we are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age."

    [...]

    Welcome to the Pyrocene

    "Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, complete with the pyric equivalent of ice sheets, pluvial lakes, periglacial outwash plains, mass extinctions and sea-level changes. It's an epoch in which fire is both prime mover and principal expression.

    "Humanity's firepower underpins the #Anthropocene, which is the outcome not just of #anthropogenic meddling but of a particular kind of meddling, made possible by humans' species monopoly over fire. Even climate history has become a subset of fire history.

    "Fires in living landscapes, fires burning lithic landscapes—the interaction of these two realms of fire has not been much studied. It's been enough of a stretch to fully include human fire practices within traditional ecology. Yet humans—the keystone species for fire on Earth—are merging the two arenas of earthly burning with a give and take that is reshaping the planet in what resembles a slow-motion #Ragnarok.

    "Add up all the effects, direct and indirect: the ice driven off by fire, the areas burning, the biogeographical #migrations as biotas move to accommodate changed conditions, the collateral impacts with damaged #watersheds and #airsheds, the unraveling of #ecosystems, the pervasive power of #ClimateChange, #RisingSeaLevels, a #MassExtinction, the disruption of human life and habitats. The result is a #pyrogeography that looks eerily like an ice age for fire. You have a maturing Pyrocene.

    "If you doubt it, just ask California."

    Full article (it's a good read):
    phys.org/news/2025-01-human-er
    #Wildfires #UncontrolledFires #HistoryOfFire #PyroceneEra #ControlledBurning #ClimateCrisis

  4. “𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒” Award-Winning Art 👉 buff.ly/4h3ELc9

    #Appalachians #redbarn #oldbarn #BarnsofAmerica #AwardWinning #fineart #BuyIntoArt #SheliaHuntPhotography

  5. “𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒”, Award-Winning Art 👉 buff.ly/4gIiMXY

    #Appalachians #redbarn #oldbarn #BarnsofAmerica #AwardWinning #fineart #BuyIntoArt #SheliaHuntPhotography

  6. @wikitree

    #Appalachia is my home and heart.

    Join me and two members as we discuss how we are doing #Genealogy for #Appalachians.

    We aren't selling anything. We aren't giving away prizes.

    We might share some #Biscuits, #SweetTea, #FamilyHistory, a few #laughs and some #tears over our #Ancestors.

    We are a #Community. We love Genealogy.
    We tear down #BrickWalls. We #care.

    #WikiTree allows us to do that for free so it's available to all.

    Spend 45 minutes with us. See our passion.

  7. Thanks to the article linked by @AnthonyPWalker at iopscience.iop.org/article/10. we see that the Central #Appalachians are a hotspot of above-ground #carbon storage worldwide. Why is the @forestservice attacking our #ClimateForests with projects like the #UpperCheatRiver #clearcuts?