Tommy Bolin

For drinking water level amounts of filtration, Berkey offers a flouride/arsenic filtration pair that works with the more limited abilities of the standard Black Berkey.
Filters few thousand gallons before replacement. Expensive. DO NOT buy from unauthorized online 'retailers' of any sort. Berkey has had a huge problem with chinnese counterfeits and Amazon, EBay , etc selling 'compatible' replacement filters.
They are also facing/have faced litigation from golddiggers testing counterfeit filters and attempting to force settlements for substandard filter performance.

If you have a propane torch, my thought is you don't need paper. We use mail circulars and the potty paper that does not make it's way into the septic, but neither is truly necessary.
Your logger is leaving the fuel you need on a waste slash pile in the woods for a bonfire.
Not only are the branches close to the tree outstanding, dense fuel wood of apparently the correct RMH size, the ends/tips/smalls are outstanding, dense kindling that lights very quickly with a torch established draft. My Fisher is located in the center of the house with a tall insulated chimney, and it draws exceptionally well. Small wood/kindling, very dry between two smaller split pieces blazes off almost instantly. The stove drafts the length of the fuel.
A short, uninsulated chimney on the eaves of a house might not draft. Your situation might be very different than mine.
I fell/skid/haul/buck/split the trees. Lil'B helps the whole process limbing and cuttting a lot of the slash we would have left into valuable firewood/kindling. I used to leave most of it years ago, because I felt it did not take much less saw fuel to cut kindling/starter wood than it did to buck trees. A big Husqvarna is not the tool for  very small wood. Her 36v Makita chainsaw is solar charged fuel free, light, perfect sized, low vibe chain, and she loves the work.
Taking large trees, splitting them to small fuel wood/kindling, throwing away the ready made fuel wood, seems a bit reversed.
We go through about 1.5 little propane cylinders/yr for all our firestarting/local workshop type dense heat needs. Like 10USD, cheap.

Disney did it better.

Thai food too broad a 'kind' of food?
For much of the population, the greens are foraged, gardened, bought fresh from local market almost daily.
Wicked hot, sour, little sweet, salty, savory, pretty much all at once. Has to be about the healthiest diet on the planet. Heavy on vegetables and fruit, less on meat.

Never seen poplar that large, nowhere close. Really nice.
Have very few in the 2ft. diameter range. Some of the black cottonwood/poplar hybrid types are pretty big here.
Do have some really nice spruce on the north side, 120+yrs.old. Lay them down live, or they will die and fall. Most of them seem to want to rot after about 80, poplar less than that. The biggest spruce in that picture was a wee sapling around the crash of 1929. 28" diameter about 85ft tall.
Dropped a 70 ft. dry spruce onto 16 in.of lake ice in Mar. just see what would happen. It bounced, I got some good firewood, skidded with the Yamaha, and 30 ft+ of milling wood that I will likely have to drive the tractor back across the ice next winter to fetch.

Spent fair amount of time in Thailand few years ago. My dad flew F-105s out of Korat in '68 and '73. I flew in on one of the last flights into DonMeuang/BKK, left from a superbly unfinished Suvarnabhumi/BKK two weeks later.
Got caught up in the redshirt/Thaksin airport protests one time flying out, my last trip ended the day of the 2014 military coup. I was in HuaHin, the country was in a bit of disarray, radio, internet, TV all down, military blockading traffic around the King's home.  Driving Thai style, I barely made my flight, barely.
I understood enough Thai to eat, navigate a bit, taught myself to read most of the sounds of the 'alphabet' but never had any real grasp of the language. Driven the country from ChiangMai to Chantaburi.

Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Well I'm sure the tools exist for a full snapshot.

Asking permission is nice, remarkably old school.

The question is, what's in it for Paul?

Nothing. Already excited about the constant scouring of the site by AI agents based on remarkable number of pageviews/huge bandwidth usage, what is the difference?
Taking advantage of interest, now, seems like a good idea.
Put together a compendium of knowledge, condensing it. Most of every page on this site is just neighborly conversation.

The information provided by AI will certainly follow the Silicon Valley model of free until they decide you are hooked, then paid subscription only.
There will be people who can afford to/or will pay, and those who can't/don't. Only the most basic, useless will be free. Agentic AI is already pay only, and prices will go up. Society, I believe, will be divided between those with assets and those without. Those with full access to instant knowledge and those without. Those with useful skills and those without.
There are those who want/tolerate community.
There are those like myself who write in order to think, and prefer a hard copy, paper. I dislike digital reading. I prefer pages to flip, tabs to keep open, time to read when there is no power/bandwidth, no glaring electronic background. Having to run precious, off grid power just to think is way, way short sighted. Kids don't seem to grow up with physical access to analogue, ad free, permanent knowledge in their hands.

Forums in general are declining from the 2010's peak, I can see that. People want instant answers. Forums can only serve those who choose them.
Folks have been migrating to the instant, effortless, critical thought free knowledge of a curated internet. Wading through opinion/chatter in search of facts is tiring. Forums will be irrelevant to anyone not seeking writing or community.

Most topics are already covered by digital downloads and podcasts on this website.

There are many publishers who will convert any digital file you send them into bound paper copy.
Here is one: https://www.iuniverse.com/en
They published a cool paperback about the 1911 baseball season I just read.

I don't envy anyone involved here on the 'stewardship' end. Community is by it's nature free, or maybe a barter of (hopefully knowledgeable) speech/conversation. Finding way to monetize community in order to keep the lights on and hopefully spread the knowledge, seems a difficult act.
Figuring out how to serve the widest audience seems fundamental.

Yes, we love it. That lake is our southern border, more or less, 400ac, of still frozen, somewhat shallow water, almost a mile of shore. Last in a little chain of glacial gouges flowing into one another. Surrounded by Crown land. Drains into the big lake, our border to the north, another mile of mostly rocky shore, with a pretty gravel beach bay, and an old tie cutters cabin from the 40's. Very deep and very cold, good fishing.
One neighbor, a 15-20 minute walk across the ice. Wolves, coyotes, moose, deer, otters all travel the ice. Our Anatolians have claimed the ice, and patrol it.
Fishing here is okay, but the trout got run out by skwafish/pike minnows. Shallow in the back, lily pads, geese love it. We think we have a pair that returns to parade their young, Weston and Wilma, we have named them. Osprey and eagles fish here.
We get flocks of mergansers in the early fall, maybe 200 or so. Did you know they cooperatively hunt? Wide flotillas of them herd the fish into bays, then the frenzy begins. They stay until the fishing thins out, a week or so.
Good fun riding the snowmobiles in winter, wide, very flat and very fast, convenient for skidding firewood back, gets me from one side of the property to the other. We ski it, or Lil'B does, I mostly founder and fall. It is our household water until the snow is on the ground. Gets a bit 'biological' in the late summer.

Poplar, yes, some of the stack over by the white truck is poplar. I wrote about it in the 'Poplar' thread. Much of the stuff right around my house has disease, some kind of trunk canker and a heart rot. I am actively starting to lay it down, as well as clean up the forest floor, open the forest up for grass/grazing, clear the environment for my spruce/lodgepole. The good stuff I have I am skidding in for milling. We have birch, very little, and all on north facing slopes, far from the house, so poplar is my hardwood. I am also looking to repurpose an area of sloped land by the house.
I intend to use a bunch of the poplar I cull to terrace the ground in a hugelkultur fashion to use for gardens, along with sawmill shreds and mulch from the bark chipper. 40x100 ft. Will give us an area to rotate garlic into.
This land is our generational bank account. 95% of it is forest, poplar, spruce and transitional. The work I do now will help the timber my son will be harvesting 40 years from now.

Where did you get the little 'mor mah' Thai script in your question?

Almost milling season. Thinned a stand of 25-30m spruce outback. Timber truss frames and framing lumber to be.
Laid down a small stand of poplar for a log deck to make stickers, keep my logs off of the ground, get enough sun to dry wood.
Back of the log deck is being further cleared for berries and fruit trees.