While food security is most often cited as the reason for the recent interest in bison, tribes also hope that returning bison to the land will restore ecological balance. At Wolakota, for instance, bison have been eating the yucca plants that became plentiful after native grasses disappeared, tearing them up by the roots and allowing grasses to return. The grass regeneration increases carbon capture.
The bison also is tightly connected to the culture of Great Plains tribes such as the Sioux. The animals provided food, tools and shelter for Indigenous people, and some tribes consider them to be family.
āItās a powerful feeling bringing our relatives home,ā said TJ Heinert, Troyās 27-year-old son, who lives on the Wolakota range with his family and helps manage it. On a recent winter morning he was dressed in camouflage as he prepared to hunt coyotes as part of a tribal benefit for his mother, who is recovering from cancer surgery.
China Plans to Feed 80 Million People With āSeawater Riceā
Jinghai district in northern China is hardly a rice-growing paradise. Located along the coast of the Bohai Sea, over half of the regionās land is made of salty, alkaline soil where crops canāt survive. Yet, last autumn, Jinghai produced 100 hectares of rice.
Known as āseawater riceā because itās grown in salty soil near the sea, the strains were created by over-expressing a gene from selected wild rice thatās more resistant to saline and alkali. Test fields in Tianjināthe municipality that encompasses Jinghaiārecorded a yield of 4.6 metric tons per acre last year, higher than the national average for production of standard rice varieties.
China has been studying salt-tolerant rice since at least the 1950s. But the term āseawater riceā only started to gain mainstream attention in recent years after the late Yuan Longping, once the nationās top agricultural scientist, began researching the idea in 2012.
Yuan, known as the āfather of hybrid rice,ā is considered a national hero for boosting grain harvests and saving millions from hunger thanks to his work on high-yielding hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. In 2016, he selected six locations across the country with different soil conditions that were turned into testing fields for salt-tolerant rice. The following year, China established the research center in Qingdao where Wan works. The instituteās goal is to harvest 30 million tons of rice using 6.7 million hectares of barren land.
Article goes on to speak about rising sea levels and how salt-tolerant rice will have big implications for coastline countries in the coming decades.
Either my father is having dementia times and unlocking and relocking the front door or someone’s trying to break into my house 😑 either way im going to sleep
Oh no someone in my internship project group texting the rest of us a LOT about how she just got kicked out of another project group including screenshots of texts they sent her and a gif of a heart shattering with the caption āmy heart right nowā even though up til this point weāve only EVER talked about the project in a professional way. Help
Stop she did that all day and then sent us this
I canāt decide if sheās unprofessional in an annoying way or a fun way
Got back to making kimchi again yesterday! Iāve been planning this for a while but I finally found the time yesterday to get all the ingredients I needed and make a few different kinds.
So I made up a paste of minced garlic and ginger, gochugaru and gochujang, fish sauce, chopped up spring onions and chopped daikon.
Then I used this to make a classic kimchi with napa cabbage/Chinese cabbage, a cucumber kimchi and a daikon radish kimchi.
Going to leave them to ferment for a week because its still pretty cold here.
