Early Way Of Living At Bismo

This I found at a secluded part of the woodland belonging to the Bismo area. The way of stacking together branches or sticks to bring shelter could be more than a million years old. Early landslides of stone materials near the foot of mountains because of a fault or quake in some parts of Africa could spontaneously have made a similar shaped formation by stones that were split at the foot of a mountain. Human ancestors may have seeked refuge there, and after a while exchanged the stones with branches and/or sticks and other materials like clay to make a better shelter.

This technology were developed further and brought to other places on earth. We see the similarity with Native Americans' tipi and the Sami people's gamme today.

The continued use of trees and logs this way early on may have meant depletion of woodland when there were fast population growth. Waterways like small rivers or streams got more important to bring the timber from distant places to populated areas. Obstacles like big rocks and  rockcovered slopes into the waterways were removed to get the logs easier to the areas. The main rivers to bring logs got deeper.

With the agriculture and rows of farms water from smaller rivers or brooks were brought to the grown plants at connecting fields without dividing brooks, so much of the water draining from these farms must have been collectively gathered and brought together away from the farms instead of being split into different streams (why should the early farmers bother with what happened to the water that were drained from their farms, after their plants of growth got their sufficiant part of water?). This resulted in more powerful fewer rivers, and many kinds of problems we see today.

Thick swampy ground in some part of woodland, like at Bismo, among bigger rocks, shows that there must have been periods with floods that caused difficulties to the early farmers and other people, when there were much snow that rapid melted or when there were heavy rainfalls. When the rivers got still deeper and powerfull, this problem of flooding was somewhat reduced, I guess.

More connected farmland and reduced areas of wetland and fewer, smaller rivers or brooks in our modern times, means that we again are more vulnerable of flooding (like in Russia we have seen lately). So it is important that we begin to divide our waterways much more to restore wetlands where possible, and divide waterways leaving farms and water power plants, and if necessary make artificially underground water ways even outside the densely populated ares.

Nature In Bismo Area

Some peculiar triangular shaped snow left in the mountains - melt water flowing at high speed downward to Otta river.

Just a little of the melt water is used to make electricity, though. But lead to Otta river, so it will collect an exaggerated amount of water in addition to the many sources of water elsewhere.

This resulting in too much noise from the river, making it impossible to sleep in a tent nearby (I tried and failed!) So a dividing and regulation of the river Otta in different smaller streams near Bismo should be a part of a nature plan there.
Further in the plan there should be still ponds based on man-made deep backstream channels leading from the river to the foot of the hills and mountains. Then beavers, that probably were part of the Bismo area earlier, should be re-introduced to the ponds near tight woodland, so there would be more biological diversity and stable climate there, instead of sudden windy, rainy and frosty conditions there today.
Other regulations, like fish ladders, could be introduced in the plan, especially if more power plants are put in work.

See these sources of interest:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/6992.html

http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/advisorynotes/37/37.htm

People In Bismo Area

Near Nordberg School, at the the less traveled road, is this memorial pilar in honour of Sylvester Sivertson, the great poet!

The country festival at Skjaaköygarden (Nordberg) this year featured Joy, Steffen and Becky among many more.

The Gaping Truth !

Yours truly (Me) and not unknown Becky H... at a country festival earlier this Summer!