it's a sandbar with a bad horse infestation? unless you're a seal I don't know why you'd care.

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Just some feral horses eating beach grass all day. Apparently they're all really dysgenic and unhealthy because of inbreeding and the fact that there's literally no survival pressure whatsoever outside of the occasional colder-than-usual winter. Other than that it's really not all that interesting.

I wish I had an island I could release animals onto and a couple million years to watch it evolve.

>>5097801
There was also an epidemic of seals mutilated in a corkscrew pattern that scientists theorized to be the result of Greenland shark attacks

there's a fairly important weather station there because of how far out it is in the ocean

>>5097821
So you're saying there's mares in real need for genetic variety?

God brought all his finest horneses to ONE island to perform a great evolutionary experiment.

>>5097821
they also have a fuck load of parasites

>>5097821
Do they just drink ocean water or what?

>>5097857
they might get enough water from the grass if they eat enough

>>5097857
>>5097872
There are a few freshwater ponds

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>sable island
>no sables
What's the deal?

>>5097876
horses ated them all

>>5097876
sable as in sand, because it's a giant sand bar in the middle of the ocean

they're slowly evolving into seahorses

>what happens on this island
probably consanguineous horse copulation

>>5097801
>>5097821
Am I missing something? why is it infested with horses? imagine 10,000 years from now something happens to erase 99% of knowledge we have and in the future they're the only population of horses left in the world

>>5097953
Bunch of horses left by settlers who then left them there and fucked off.

>>5097955
LMAO. Kind of based

>ywn live on horse island

>>5097821
what is their tax policy?

>>5097801
>In 1901, the federal government planted over 80,000 trees in an attempt to stabilize the soil; all died. Subsequent plantings in the 1960s resulted in the survival of a single Scots pine, that only grew to a few feet tall.
>In recent years, the tree was found to have died,[51] marking the loss of the last remaining pine tree on the island.[52]

Does anybody else think they half assed this? Yes the island is salty sandy and windy, but it's also one of the warmest places in Canada (zone 8) so there should be plenty of trees to choose from that are adapted to the climate and these conditions.

>>5098443
It’s a sandbar. Trying to ‘stabilize the soil’ is a retarded thing to try and attempt in the first place.

>>5098443
most science and government ventures are ran by people who shouldn't be in charge of that venture, financed by people disinterested in that venture, with the work being done by laborers who did not sign up for that venture.

>>5098450
like this guy. This guy would have been in charge of the operation if it were done now.

>>5098443
They probably just dumped seeds in with a helicopter and kept the rest of the money.

>>5098443
Just fence in a few areas and plant beach plum and sea buckthorn.

>500 horses living on a 12 sq mile sandbar
has to be mind numbing even for a horse

It's not going to be a sandbar very long considering all the horse poop

>>5097953
The island is predicted to disappear by the 21st century due to rising ocean levels and erosion so those horses are eventually turbo fucked.

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>>5098443
There's no shelter from the wind so the trees all die, they need to be sheltered on at least one side to survive. It doesn't matter how warm it gets, they all get blown over when there's a strong enough storm.
In California the Farallon Islands have a similar issue, they tried planting trees there in the 19th century only for all but three of them to be blown down by the extreme winds, the only two trees that survived are sheltered by buildings on at least one side.

>>5098560
They'll just have to evolve to be aquatic. Weasels managed it too, so it can't be that hard.

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>>5097811
>>5097883
>>5098450
>>5098498
>>5098533
The sandbar is now open. What yall have? And why the long faces?

>>5098576
I want pure methanol

>>5098576
A shark sandwich
And make it quick!

>>5098566
What's the rent like there

>>5098576
Uhhhh... yeah, could I get some sand?

>>5098576
One sex on the beach, garçon

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>>5098576
!?!?

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>>5098450
>>5098566
>muh wind
>muh sand
How do you think sandbars grow in the first place? The entire fucking atlantic coastal plain is a giant sandbar.
Look at Presque Isle and Sandy Hook. Two examples of sandbars in the USA that are currently growing. Look on a sattelite and you can see new vegetation growing on the empty sand, and yes that's including woody plants.

I think it was a case of Canadian retardation. I looked it up a bit more and they planted willows (a freshwater swamp tree) and timber pines so no shit they all died. should have planted early successional shrubs and slowly build it up. Once they grow they shelter each other from the wind and you can move onto trees.

I mean Darwin and friends turned a literal barren rock (Ascension Island) into a cloud rain forest so it's really not that hard of a task.

>>5098576
Mare loving

>>5098765
Sable Island is the remnant of a glacial moraine, it's too far from the mainland to get a supply of new sand.
That being said, you're right, they should've planted shrubs to stabilize the island instead of going straight to trees.

>>5097801
>S(t)able island
>full of horses
Who the fuck comes up with this shit?

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>>5098576
A glass of Kumis if you'd please.

>>5098765
>>5098826
Both good points, but as anon said before wouldn't rising sea-levels make the whole ecological succession moot?

>>5098572
>underestimating the weasel

>>5098917
Global sea levels aren't rising, though.

>>5097801
>>5098904
>S(t)able island
>look inside
>actually an unstable sandbar

>>5097801
There's google street view of a large chunk of the island, you can see for yourself that it's just a bunch of grass and dunes with a few old houses in one area.