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A male Red-bellied Woodpecker searches the treetops at Lynde Shores Conservation Area, in Whitby, Ontario, Canada.
THE NOSE ASSEMBLY OF A MOCK B61-12, MOUNTED ON AN ALUMINUM TUBE TO REPLICATE THE BODY OF THE BOMB, SITS IN A STAND AWAITING MOVEMENT TO SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES' DAVIS GUN, WHICH FIRED THE TEST ASSEMBLY INTO A POOL IN ONE OF A SERIES OF IMPACT TESTS.
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The Blackwater Conservation Area is bouncing back nicely, but the signs of damage from the flooding are still visible. All that dead stuff was water hyacinths. I'm not sure exactly how high the water got here, but I know that this general area got it pretty bad.
Droseraceae - Sundew sp
Marrano Creek Track
Deep Creek Conservation Park
Fleurieu Peninsula
South Australia
Staff member Wayne Quade of the Greater Colorado Council is at his 5th Jamboree and just loves to educate Scouts and Scouters on Outdoor Ethics in the Conservation Trail program area during the 2023 National Scout Jamboree at The Summit Bechtel Reserve in Mount Hope, West Virginia. (BSA Photo by Dan Glass
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Waitpinga, southern Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
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incredibly, these are public facilities in the Eramosa Karst Conservation Area. Paid for by a local trust established by a polluting industry. Don't get me started...
The San Pedro riparian area, containing about 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, was designated by Congress as a National Conservation Area on November 18, 1988. The primary purpose for the designation is to protect and enhance the desert riparian ecosystem, a rare remnant of what was once an extensive network of similar riparian systems throughout the Southwest.
Many recreational opportunities are available within the NCA. Murray Springs Clovis Site, a significant archaeological site contains an undisturbed stratigraphic record of the past 40,000 years. Excavations were conducted by the University of Arizona from 1966 to 1971. People first arrived in this area 11,000 years ago. They belonged to what we now call the Clovis Culture and were the earliest known people to have inhabited North America. Named after the distinctive and beautifully crafted Clovis spear points they made, they were expert hunters of the large mammals of the last Ice Age. An interpretive trail leads visitors through the site. From Sierra Vista, take State Highway 90 east 6 miles to Monson Road. Turn left, and go about 1.2 miles to the signed turnoff to Murray Springs. The access road is located on the right.
The Spanish Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate is the most intact remaining example of a once-extensive network of similar presidios. These fortresses marked the northern extension of New Spain into the New World. Only a stone foundation and a few remaining adobe wall remnants mark the location of an isolated and dangerous military station. From Fairbank on Highway 82, drive approximately 2 miles west on Highway 82, turn right on the Kellar Ranch Road and travel approximately 3 miles to the trailhead. Hike about 2 miles to the ruins and interpretive displays.
The San Pedro House, located 9 miles east of Sierra Vista on State Highway 90, is a popular trailhead for birdwatchers, hikers, and mountain bikers. The Friends of San Pedro operate a bookstore and information center.
Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.
Staff with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) did a flyover around Baker and Grant counties to monitor the damage from last year's wildfires and view other conservation projects within the John Day/Umatilla Basin and the Snake River Basin. NRCS photos by Tom Watson, April 25, 2016.
An Image from a Hedgehog conservation project run by The Royal Parks Foundation - Volunteers identify visitors to a footprint tunnel.
One of definitions of conservation: - 'Preservation and repair of archaeological, historical, and cultural sites and artefacts'.
Yesterday I visited a medieval church in Llangybi, Monmouthshire, Wales. It is called St Cybi's Church. This is a painting on the north wall of the nave and it shows St Michael and the Virgin Mary with the scales of justice and mercy between them. This was partly obscured by a later mural of an open book showing the Ten Commandments. It is thought it has been added in the 17th century. The painting has been cleaned and conserved during the 1980s.
A big quick hello to all and a sorry I haven't got round to looking and commenting very much over recent months, unfortunately it'll be like that for another six or seven weeks.
This shot is the view from Namo Buddha which is located in the mountains about 2 ½ hours from Kathmandu. It is one of the most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal and one of the holiest in the world. It is known as the place where the Buddha, in a previous life as a prince, gave his body to a starving tigress and her cubs. There is a very old temple in the village of Namo Buddha, located below Thrangu Rinpoche’s land, which sits on the top of the mountain. Several lamas have determined that the actual site where the Buddha gave his body is actually on Thrangu Rinpoche’s property near the retreat center. There is a cave with statues of the prince, the tigress and the cubs on this site. Namo Buddha is otherwise known by Tibetans and people of the Himalayan regions as “Takmo Lu Jin”, which is literally “Tigress Body Generosity”.
I've been there a couple of times, most recently 14 February 2010 which was the first day of the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar.
The thing is it's not about "tiger worship" which is a real problem as it adds to the big lie that tiger body parts have medicinal properties. Yep, big problem, we're so clever but also so so stupid...
Cheers Jack
Pansy had quiet the discussion with this little fellow all about how to save water! To bad we can't pipe in all the extra snow from the East coast here to the West coast in a reserve tank - it would be a win win!!
The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.
During the Pleistocene, massive runoff spilled from the Sierra Nevada into a chain of inland seas. The system of interconnected lakes stretched from Mono Lake to Death Valley and included Searles Lake. Deep beneath Searles Lake, calcium-rich groundwater and alkaline lake water combined to grow tufa formations. Similar (modern) formations can be found today at Mono Lake to the north. Known as tufa pinnacles, these strange shapes formed underwater 10,000 to 100,000 years ago. The pinnacles did not all form at the same time. They are divided by age and elevation into three groups. The groups are dubbed the northern, middle, and southern groups because they formed during three ice ages.
The northern group is the youngest at 11,000 to 25,000 years old. These are the best examples of what are known as tufa towers. The northern group also include shapes called tombstones, ridges and cones. The small middle group claims only 100 spires, but boasts the tallest "tower", rising 140 feet (43 m). The southern group, includes 200 tufa formations aged 32,000 to 100,000 years old.
The Pinnacles are recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies. Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Disney's Dinosaur, The Gate II: Trespassers, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes. The music video for Lady Gaga's 2020 single "Stupid Love" was also filmed here.
Source: Wikipedia