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There’s a book about this, it seemed really interesting because the tiger stalked him for days I’m pretty sure.
Edit: found it https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
This will be good. If you have interest in this topic and famous Brits, you should read Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams (Author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).
He travels the world and experiences some of the most endangered animals and writes about them and the experience in the way that ONLY he can. (it was written in the late 80s, so some species he writes about are in fact now extinct)
Tigers are vengeful as well as thoughtful when it comes retribution and payback... Check this book out. It's a great read. I remember reading a part where a tiger brings a tribute to a character in the book because it figured out that person helped him out earlier.
Markov wasn't the only person this tiger ate. There's an excellent book about this incident, called The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. It's a fascinating read, and is full of information about the plight of tigers and other wildlife in the Russian Far East as well as human struggle for survival. Highly recommended.
Have you guys ever read The World Without Us ? If I remember correctly, the Pyramids could last a million years, Mount Rushmore over 2 million. By far the oldest human structures.
Like the buildings are described in the book, The World Without Us but with people still living in the buildings. The moisture and the roots will get into the cracks in the concrete and tear the building's apart. This will be a shitshow.
Believe it or not tigers are known for revenge kills and keeping grudges. This book details a very specific case of that. Amur tiger wounded by a poacher and he stalked him for days and even went to his house and destroyed everything in it and then waited for the the guy to come back and killed him too.
that's a good question, I don't think anti-natalism applies to plants per se, however, I personally do not enjoy harming/destroying plants or, for that matter, any living being.
With respect to planting and growing plants, I'm all for it. If I could safely be a fruitarian I would; sadly, it's not healthy to do it full-time.
FYI: plants do communicate with each other (I could recommend some books/docs for you to read/watch, oh, what the hell, I'll just share it now: a great book by Peter Wohlleben, the hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate, discoveries from a secret world) and The Nature of Things documentary: what trees talk about: a revealing look at the lives of trees)
The top 5 bowel movements of my life have been outdoors. Seriously, a spade, some paper, and some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet. Somebody even wrote a book about it...https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-3rd-Environmentally/dp/1580083633
But to just go willy nilly in your neighbors yard?
>A bit farfetched.
For further reading consider reading Hidden Life of Treesand this all starts to connect.
I studied Biology and Bitcoin (the network) is a really good analogue for how mycelium function that allow forests to thrive and transport water and nutrients many Km away, as do synapses of the brain to be able to keep the organism alive to do a myriad of metabolic functions.
I've made this very analogy in what seems every 2-3 year cycles, after first realizing what it was we were really building in 2013 or so. Sadly, that was our eternal September with the fist wave of idiots when btc broke 1200 and this place really started to go downhill.
Time you should do some reading, my know it all friend. You can start here: https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049 The Tiger is a true story of how a pissed off tiger stalked and killed modern armed hunters:
Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous.
Read that book and come back here once you get a real idea just how scary a big cat can be. I hunt, and it even creeped me out.
All ya'll should read 'Cadillac Desert'.
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Also I was annoyed by the one farmer that complained about ground water restrictions taking acres out of production. How many acres will go out of production when it becomes too expensive (if not impossible at any price) to pump out ground water?
I suggest reading the book Cadillac Desert about the Southwest and how its tricky relationship its water came to be.
Long story short. US government knew there was a lot of land, a somewhat inhospitable climate, and an unpredictable snow-fed river in the American southwest. During the depression and through WWII they began building dams all over the Southwest with the aim that none of the Colorado's water "go to waste". The Colorado valley was supposed to become a modern cradle of civilization, and all of it was made possible by securing its water. It is one of the reasons Arizona is more than three times New Mexico in population---New Mexico does not have nearly the same water resources---and why Los Angeles became powerful and influential...but only in the 2nd half of the 20th century. The massive damming operations elsewhere in California have helped the State produce the majority of fruits and vegetable in the US.
So it was never a matter of 'muh free land'. It was land with untapped potential. It was very valuable land when the right technology was introduced to it.
Quarantine restlessness is definitely a big reason how I stumbled on the PCT, too. It's encouraging to see that you didn't phase right out of it and wen ton backpacking trips, too. As I mentioned, that is where I'd like to get. However, I definitely do not relate to you about having outdoor experience. Do you have any resources (such as books, guides, etc. -- I've recently stumbled on How to Shit in the Woods which looks promising)?
And yes, this thru hike is such a commitment, I'm sure careers are holding a lot of people back. I hope you enjoy your future hikes, though! Thanks for your anecdote.
How to Shit in the Woods, 4th Edition: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984857134/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_AS6LFbWQ5X5T7
It’s up to the fourth edition 😂😂 I love this book. It makes a fabulous gift!
If you're interested in this, you may like the book <em>The World Without Us</em> by Alan Weisman. It looks at how long signs of our civilization would endure if all humans disappeared overnight.
Check out The Hidden Life of Trees to be truly amazed.
I use dailies specifically because of backpacking. I actually usually wash my hands before I go to bed (I use Dr. Bronners but Campsuds is also popular) if I can't because water is really scarce I'll sanitize before bed. Then I'll put new contacts in first thing in the morning. I'm sure my eye doctor would not like that but I've never had an incident.
"How to Shit in the Woods" by Meyer (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984857134/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_NCWBBBKKQVZZJ23K04S3) is a pretty good reference on environmentally acceptable waste disposal but generally you're always okay carrying our your TP and wipes. Depending on the bioactivity of the soil and human use load of the area you may be okay burying your TP if you dig an adequate hole. You are never okay leaving wipes.
Depending on trip length I may go to a restaurant if I go through a town but I would also eat something so I don't really feel bad about using their restroom as a customer.
There is a book written 30 years ago that has sold 3 million copies called How to Shit in the Woods. Are you aware of that book? If so, how is yours different?
Have you read this book? https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discoveries-Secret/dp/1771642483
Where are you hiking forests? What country?
I LOVE Douglas Adam's take on this bird, in the wonderful book Last Chance to See.
Cadillac DESERT, BY MARC REISNER
https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-Revised/dp/0140178244
The book Cadillac Desert predicted all of this.
It was written in 1986...
And it’s all true to an extent.
That section appears to be influenced by the research and experience that the book below was based on. Highly recommend it - you’ll never look at a tree the same way again!
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discoveries-Secret/dp/1771642483
The true price of an acre-foot of water includes the cost of capture, storage, and transportation. For more than a century taxpayers have been paying for dams that solely benefit large farmers. More often than not, the true cost of collecting each acre-foot of water (cost of dam construction, operations, pumping) exceeds the price paid by farmers 10-1.
This is an incredibly well-documented phenomena in the west.
There's a legal difference between "groundwater" and "surface water". The boundary between the two is...fuzzy.
Surface water is regulated strongly, and is responsible for a lot of fun legal fights all across the west (Recommend the book Cadillac Desert if you want to learn more), but groundwater is much less regulated. If you're a hydrologist, all groundwater was surface water at one time, but if you're a farmer or a lawyer then the difference has a bit more nuance.
There's a very good book which describes what has happened to the Colorado and while it's several years old at this point, most of its predictions for the future of the river are clearly coming to pass. It's called Cadillac Desert
If the government disappeared tomorrow, we'd be enslaved by someone else before long, and would basically recreate a government eventually because the need would still be there.
As for the human race, you're right, the earth will continue just fine without us. There's even a book about this, "The World Without Us," about how nature would reclaim the earth if humans weren't here.
You might want to look locally for guidance — is this a park, private property, wilderness area, or? Different ecosystems have different guidelines; different jurisdictions have different rules.
If you do the bucket you gotta pack it out — it’s not cool to bury all that plastic from the bags. If you do cat-holes do it right.
There’s a great book called How to Shit in the Woods.