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  1. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Yes yes, but I'm also very resistant to taking money out of my investments to pay for things that I stubbornly refuse to admit that I can't do myself ;) (Did a test of some *very light, very-protective-of-my-leg* gardening today. Will see how I feel tomorrow...)
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Satan's Spawn hasn't turned into lamb chops yet, but they will soon enough, as it's very much getting into fall here. ;) Need to get the not-yet-ready-to-plant trees that are sunning on my land into shelter within a month or so. BTW, related to that, I had an idea this year (delayed by the...
  3. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Hey all - just thought I'd drop by, as I'm working towards a botany degree now, and there's been a lot of interesting things that have come up that shed light on the above, which I thought I'd share: Icelandic soil is quite unusual. Volcanoes that erupt under thick glaciers (not a common thing...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Hi all - I just stopped by to post a couple updates :) Up until about a week ago, I've been planting up a storm - used up 80% or so of the willows and cottonwoods. The worst place was that I finally planted the high landslide-risk area with the "oubliettes" that just suddenly appear, hidden...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Particularly around the spruce, I plant low strandavíðir (tea-leaved willow v. "strandir", which makes a dense windbreak but maxes out at around 3m, to give the spruce some shelter as it grows. That said, I'm not always paying great attention; here I planted one willow, only to discover that...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Several days ago: I first drove on this newly paved section of road. Sure looks rather slick, I thought, but I pushed that aside, because surely they know what they're doing. Two days ago: I thought I was getting a head start heading out early after work. Nope - road closed. Had to take a...
  7. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Well, that's the best deal - 37 trays (a trailer's full), about 56 cents per tree. Not bad! They're from Flóra, the place with the grubs and worms, but this time I random sampled a lot of them, and didn't find a single grub or worm. Unlike last time, these ones were on plastic mats, which...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Just a few pics from the first two planting days. Loading up on cottonwood, rowan, elm, a few birch and a handful of spruce. Rowans were planted most near the house site, blending into a row of cottonwood in a gentle, always-moist channel that cuts across half the land and heads toward the...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Well, Youtube is annyoing. I uploaded the >6Gb file and waited all day for Youtube to process it.. but because apparently I clicked the wrong thing during the upload, it was presented as a "premier", was only visible live, not possible to view again, and impossible for me to change settings to...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Video uploading.... although it's long and 4K HDR, so it won't finish before I go to bed. ;) Need to decide what to do about trees. Kjarr - the place with the moderate-sized trees - hasn't had a chance to check yet, but they said that they don't think they have a ton of appropriate trees this...
  11. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Okay, the person who made the Paypal donation today... you know who you are... wow. You just bought a at least half a trailer full of trees :) I'll either go this Friday or early next week! :) A few pictures. Just finished the fence the other day, working through the rain. Today I built...
  12. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    Yes. :) Hopefully will be getting a new batch later this week or next week. I think I'm ready to switch from fence work to new planting. First need to build a "inner pen" to hold all the trees (a second line of defense just in case sheep find a way in), but that's really easy. Also need to...
  13. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    It'll happen to any long fence over time, but it's the forces on a fence that trigger it, and obviously here, we get a lot of forces on our fences. It also happens the easiest in weak, shallow soils, for obvious reasons. Solutions can be a combination of concreting and lateral bracing, the...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    While I finished the barbed wire, and cementing the posts on the east / inland side, and got the big tools and posts and wire down to the damaged section by the river on the rest, I've not felt good enough to do the hard work of hammering in posts and the like (will probably do that in a few...
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    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Just thought I'd stop by to post a few more pics from the past week :) Here the wobbly section of the fence (a couple others less wobbly) that I really need to get a Round Tuit and fix ;) Hadn't taken any pictures of the easternmost / waterfall-adjacent tree yet. Note how green the trunk...