There are a lot of abandoned farms in marginal areas of Ontario. In the Ottawa Valley for example, upstream of where the wafer-thin topsoil gives way to an ancient beach, then the granite of the Algonquin Highlands. The Petawawa military base is on that beach. The granite bedrock of the Algonquin Highlands makes the area so unproductive that they were only summer hunting areas for the First Nations, and the origin of the Wendigo myth.
A lot of people tried and failed in the 1920’s to make a go of it. As a kid, friends and I would disappear into the woods and find old farm cabins and crab apple orchards.
Nature seems to take over in around 50 years.
Old highways and Cold War runways seem to take longer.
Nature has taken a pretty good toll on a big chunk of concrete near me, but it is in direct contact with the ocean on one side, and nature on the other… it was abandoned in the 80’s.
There are some of those around here as well. Wooden structures do not fare well once the upkeep ceases. Nature takes over pretty rapidly in the very fertile valley soil.
Both goals came after Luton lost captain Tom Lockyer early on after he collapsed on the pitch but the defender was taken to hospital where the club have confirmed he is “responsive and talking” to his family.
Then six months later
Is the risk of lifelong health problems really worth it?
It always strikes me that people claiming that anthropogenic climate change isn’t real because the climate changes naturally are akin to someone saying, “People die of natural causes all the time, therefore murder can’t exist. Ignore the 30 knife wounds in the guy.”
The air quality is so terrible and we’re about 35-40 miles south of this fire. We almost never get the winds in our city (they always go north and south of us), but we’re getting them now.
