There is this nature reserve I like to go to nearby. They have a whole row of these setup explaining stuff about the region, the plants, what they do to preserve it (which is a lot). There’s also some along the walking route with relevant explanations about some of the plants and animals present at that location.
Until one day some fucking asshole during Covid got a lot of shitty anti-vax stickers and plastered them all over the place. All over all of the info signs, the walking route markers, basically anywhere they could. It must have been hundreds of stickers.
Next time I came there I reported it, but they said they were aware. People had tried to remove the stickers, but they were those really shitty paper stickers that just fell apart instead of coming off. They also weren’t water proof, so withing two weeks they weren’t even readable any more.
Some time later the people managing the place attempted to remove the stickers but it didn’t work. In the end they used such a strong chemical it not only removed the sticker but also damaged the plastic underneath. Those things were constructed of a metal plate with the prints on them and sandwiched in between acrylic. The kind of thing that will hold up for years outside and is easy to clean. The acrylic was also treated with an anti-graffiti coating, but that didn’t help against those shitty stickers I guess.
The signs were all but destroyed at that point and a forest manager told me they didn’t have the funds to replace them all. Some of the sings have since been replaced, but there are still a lot left damaged.
It ruined my peaceful place and made me hate anti-vaxxers even more. I used to go there to escape from all the awful stuff in the world during Covid as it was one of the things one could still do to not be locked in place all the time. People suck.
Use goof off or goo gone. Adhesive removers. Gone real quick.
But yeah fuck those idiots.
Or 91%+ iso, or mineral oil.
And scrape with razor blade.
And do small test patch of chems in an inconspicuous area any time you have a new chem/surface combo.
But yeah.
I’ve only ever seen them at hiking trails, so yes. I’d rather be hiking than doing anything else
Had them in some small towns I lived in growing up that were used for a public board. Yard sales, missing stuff, other events or official notices.
Oh I’ve never seen that, maybe it’s regional
These are small towns. Like between 200-1000ish people. East Coast of Canada for me.
Like you live in an open world RPG and the generated quests have a place to show up
I am on an elementary school’s parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.
It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.
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Lmao a lot of em too
Depends on the hike. Sometimes I hike to where my phone is charging because I feel it’s charged long enough and I don’t want to spoil it. It should be as tired as I am. 20 percent? You’re more charged than I am get your ass over here.
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This thing means - “Beyond this point remains some collection of natural items that rednecks have yet to destroy, or that venture capitalism has failed to monetize, yet.”
Ah yes. The redneck. A worldwide phenomena.
National parks are kind of hard to monetize for VCs if private capital isn’t allowed to own them
It won’t be long till that is the case
(They’re not talking about National Parks… yet.)
Well, shit.
I give it less than a year before they start (at least attempting) to sell the land that National Parks reside on.
Maps with hats.
They can also have pockets, sometimes. It’s peak something or other
And dog poo bags, around here. And hopefully there’s a trash bin near the trailhead.
Won’t lie, I saw the scent h and my brain went: guillotine
You are here 🔴
HOW THE FUCK CAN THEY POSSIBLY KNOW THAT
Modern surveillance state.
Why did my dumb ass think this was a cute lil baby guillotine at first
You’re spending too much time on Lemmy.
IRL wiki about the shit around me?! Fuck yes!
I love being able to read the tour guide at my own pace rather than have it said to me. These structures are great.
I never gave these things a second thought, but yeah, they are pretty awesome actually.
Take a bee, leave a bee?
This is actually a so-called “insect hotel”! 😁
I was mainly just beeing silly, but I had thought of making one of these, and it seems that there is a lot that actually goes into having a good one. Proper size holes and the correct materials and all that. I suppose local insects require a number of specific things. I think I may go pollinator garden instead, but even finding the right types of plants seems daunting.
My original joke of the take a bee, leave a bee seems to have some basis in reality though! I found this blog post as the result of a reddit post and some insects do come and take some of the nesting insects! In addition to some hibernating or laying eggs, parasitic insects also love them, as one would enjoy a nice new supermarket in town! Seems similar to hawks staking out unsheltered bird feeders.
Ah yeah I wasn’t sure, did make me smile though :)
Thanks for sharing the extra posts, very interesting!
It’s always interesting to learn about the talents of underrated animals like insects! The world around us is so amazing when we give it a closer look.
100%
For your pollinator garden, see if there’s a nursery that specializes in native plants of your region. They’ll be able to help you figure out what you need and where to plant them.
Good reminder! Many of my garden centers have shut down, but there are 2 on my drive from work I havent checked out.
For anyone in US/Canada, someone here gave me this Xerces guide to regional pollinator plants that has sooooo much info. I definitely want some milkweed. We had a resurgence of monarch butterflies last year and it was really nice to see.
Make sure you buy the right kind of milkweed for your latitude! The monarchs need different things during different stages. And don’t get the “tropical” or “Mexican” milkweed if you live above the Mexican border.
I did see there were quite a number of species! That’s what makes all this so daunting! I just want to throw out some scoops of seed and attract bees and butterflies…why must it be so complex?! 🤯
I literally just bought this as a gift to my dad 😅
You are here! I love it when they have a little local bird guid on there too.
Little lending libraries have that vibe and are also awesome.
My only problem with these are that the plastic on them is always somehow smudge/frosted enough that you cant read a thing.
Plastic? We have plenty of them here and none is out of plastic.
Is their not a plastic sheet covering the posted maps and signs? Like the structure is wood, but most I have seen have a plastc covering over the display.
And ya sometimes the scratches and smearing and graffiti makes it unreadable.
The bougie ones have glass… That might be what they are referring to.
I do a lot of hiking and most often it’s plastic. Weirdly you find the glass covered ones in usually boring trails in small towns that seem very rarely traveled. I have even seem some that are just cork board, with nothing covering it. The pages are either lamented, or less desirably slipped into a 3 ring binder type sleeve and stapled.
Those lesser traveled locations probably have lower rates of vandalism. Also, lower budgets, glass is cheaper than acrylic or polycarb.
We mostly have metal plates or a pin board with glass. People take care of them.
At least here the actual papers and stuff pinned to them are covered by a locked hinged window made of plastic.
We would use a secure glass for this purpose. Plastic would be seen as “cheap” and unwelcoming.
I think it’s partly UV and partly being cleaned with paper towel. I think cotton is much softer on a micro level.
Maybe that’s a reason not to put plastic on them.
I mean, they exist for how long already?
Gives information and keeps me from getting wet. 10/10 excellent structure
As a trail maintenance volunteer, I am biased, but yeah, I like them too.
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What is that? A sort of trellis for vines to grow on? Drying rack?
To put grass there to dry. Very common in Slovenia.
Is the grass for livestock bedding or roof thatching? Wouldn’t think it would be enough for hay/feeding.
It is/was for feeding mostly. Even today there are a lot of these out there some very long, even though they aren’t used extensively anymore. Most were torn down, but in Slovenia you can’t go far without seeing one. Like some countryside ornamens.
Huh. Neat! Seems like a labor intensive way to produce hay, guess modern baleing technology has made them obsolete. (By modern, I think square hay balers happened in 18XX sometime and were horse or mule drawn.) Probably was real expensive until sometime last century.
Got a picture of a millstone I recently found but Lemmy isn’t letting me upload it right now. I love old tech.
Yes pretty neat! All this old “tech” makes me imagine a world when time was moving slower.
I dream of silent days when I’d work with friends to put hay on these things and not questioning my own existence because I made a living designing pointless digital products, now have to beg companies to hire me to design pointless apps for them under the threat of the huge mortgage I had to get to renovate my parents house, because my salary could never be enough to buy something.
Just sun, drying hey, bees, silence…
Yes and no, I think.
Totally get the draw of simpler and slower paced life with fewer distractions, clear responsibilities, greater self reliance, comprehensible social and technological world…
Small pox, tuberculosis, black lung, crazy uncle locked in the woodshed, whipping and beating of children and women, pervasive religion, famines, limited food choices in winter, illiteracy, and wool underwear: not so much.
I guess everything is a trade off; but, humans certainly didn’t evolve to live in a society this complex.
I think we’d be much happier living in small interconnected communes of less than 100. Most agrarian, with some dedicated to manufacturing or medicine or whatever. Stable and smaller population size. Don’t know if we could produce microchips, chemical synthesis, satellites, and high tech modern staples. Maybe we could. Sounds like heaven.
Cow towel rack.
Sounds like something from a Far Side comic.
Kozolec supremacy.
