Habitat restoration is not a skill set easily adaptable to robots. On my property, I weed 124 plant species. I must recognize most of them in their juvenile states under vastly different settings, tangled in other plants, and lighting conditions. Extraction often involves considerable dexterity, particularly when speed is at issue. The terrain is rugged and dirty, involving remote locations far from a battery charger.
Having been doing this kind of work for 25 years, I know badly habitat restoration is needed. Our forests for the most part are overstocked and impacted with weeds. Fuels have become a hazard. Our reservoirs are filling with sediment unnecessarily. Our fisheries are degraded. Our soils are in need of rehabilitation (which is a very demanding skill set). Stream channels are incised and water infiltration and retention seriously degraded, to the point of spreading desertification across much of the West. Flooding is an increasing problem. The general productivity of the system, whether for forage or cropping, is in huge areas less than half what it once was. These are serious problems involving engineering, biochemistry, hydrology, animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, machine design, chemistry... there is so much research and development to be done that it boggles the mind, and the implementation involves every skill level and manual ability.
What we need is to get the government out of land management, for which I have developed the legal bases.
I have been an engineer in highly automated electronic manufacturing involving pick and place operations, machine vision, and locomotion. Believe me, this kind of work will not be automatable any time soon and the data collection, management, and information systems needed will dwarf anything we have now. In fact, what is needed is an enormous amount of design and manufacturing work to build the infrastructure of a mobile and low-impact semi-nomadic cohort that could operate on a self-sustaining basis for long periods. I cannot over-emphasize the impact such a "society" would have on liberty, as it is the antidote to the extreme hazards to the entire nation presented by the Agenda 21 Sustained Development racket. The left is putting a gun to the heads of urban civilization and setting them up for extermination, all to save a "Nature" about which they have deep misunderstandings.
For the most part, the "thinkers" of this world have no clue of the opportunities what I just wrote present, and are unlikely to have the tools with which to perceive them. I have researched the origins of that mentality, but even if people understood its serious misconceptions, that habit of perception is so entrenched that without serious reeducation, they will have no idea what I mean, much less the capability to envision.
Regarding post #34, I suggest interested FRiends email to their gubment persons not only the post, but rather more. Go to SHEMITTA, FOR THE LAND IS MINE and then read the other data this gifted FReeper has made available - for free, too.
Federal and State lands must be returned to private ownership because AgencyPersons will not care for them as will a private land owner. Carry_Okie has traced that thread back to a point in Western history somewhat earlier than the Ancient Greeks - specifically to a mountain in a desert where data recorded in Leviticus and Deuteronomy describe conditions and decisions facing us here in America today.
The Wilderness Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act - all may be accurately termed “The Great Un-Natural Acts” in that they describe what never was and can never be.
We can do better. We can’t afford not to do better. Carry_Okie has created a starting point - the question is what will be done with what he has offered.
PS I am neither a Believer(wish I was, but ...) not do I receive anything from suggesting Carry_Okie’s works - other than the insights/perspectives I found there.
PPS Those insights/perspectives are why I suggest them to you, my FRiends.