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Mt. Adams and the Milky Way as seen from Takhlakh Lake, during a fun summer trip. I was surprised how loud the huge chorus of bullfrogs was while I was capturing this shot.
"The Golden Hour"
Moose of Grand Teton
Moose are the largest member of the deer family and love cold weather. They frequent marshy meadows and edges of lakes and streams. About 800 Moose inhabit the southern part of Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park and surrounding national forests. Moose are most heavily concentrated in Grand Teton Park.
To keep from sinking in mud while feeding, as the animal lowers its foot, a large dewclaw spreads to better support the weight. Similarly, the odd-looking crook of the hind leg allows a Moose to pull the leg straight up, more easily releasing it from deep, sucking mud.
Bull Moose lose their antlers anytime between December and March. Most of the Moose drop them in January. Immature bulls may not shed their antlers for the winter but retain them until the following spring. Female Moose do not have antlers.
A new set of antlers begin to grow the following spring, nourished by the covering of furry skin known as velvet. They take three to five months to develop fully – the velvet is then scraped and rubbed off against bushes and branches. The antlers are then ready for battle. Generally, each set of antlers will be larger than the one before.
Birds, carnivores, and rodents eat dropped antlers as they are full of protein and Moose themselves will eat antler velvet for the nutrients.
Take note—cow Moose with young can be particularly dangerous.
For more info: www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/about-moose/
We started to see sagebrush again, about a dozen miles from where we last saw it at the end of the Southeast Arm.
Did you know that one of Canada’s richest ecosystems is also one of its most endangered?
Garry oak ecosystems are enchantingly beautiful and high in biodiversity. They are unique to a small part of southwestern British Columbia, where less than 5% of the habitat remains in a near-natural condition.
Saw this cool bee house at Calvin Ecosystem Preserve.
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Established in 1934, to protect a fragile ecosystem of the vanishing Everglades.
U.S. National Park in Florida, that protect a 20% of the original southern Everglades. In the United States, it is the largest tropical wilderness, the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River, and is visited on average by one million people each year. It is the third-largest national park in the lower 48 states after Death Valley and Yellowstone. It has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance, one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists. is home to 36 threatened or protected species including the Florida panther, the American crocodile, and the West Indian manatee, and supports 350 species of birds, 300 species of fresh and saltwater fish, 40 species of mammals, and 50 species of reptiles.
Celestún is a town in Yucatán, Mexico. Surrounding the town is the 147,500-acre (600 km²) Parque Natural del Flamenco Mexicano (also known as the "Celestun Biosphere Reserve"), a wetland reserve that is the winter home to vast flocks of flamingos, as well as many herons and other bird species. This location is set within the Petenes mangroves ecoregion. In addition, more than 200 species of birds pass through on migration, or live there. Celestun's ecosystem is unique because of a combination of fresh water from the estuary and salt water from Gulf of Mexico.
Source: Wikipedia
Doñana's National park (Spain), Dunes ecosystem,
Doñana's National Park includes five different ecosystems: Beaches, Dunes, Border, Marsh and Forest. The system of mobile dunes of Doñana, unique in Spain, is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the park. The dunes, extremely interesting both from an ecological and a cultural viewpoint, are formed by accumulations of sand whose front of progress has a steeper slope than the part of displacement called tail. The progress of the dunes from the beach buries and destroys the vegetation that finds on its way, forming between two dunes the “corrales”, copses of stone pines and bushes. (www.donanavisitas.es/en)
[ESP] El Parque Nacional de Doñana incluye cinco ecosistemas distintos: Playas, Dunas, Vera, Marisma y Bosque. El sistema de Dunas móviles de Doñana, único en España, es uno de los paisajes más bellos del parque. Sumamente interesante, tanto ecológica como culturalmente, las dunas se forman por acumulaciones de arena cuyo frente de avance tiene una pendiente más acusada que la parte de desplazamiento denominada cola. El avance de las dunas desde la playa entierra y destruye la vegetación que encuentra a su paso, formándose entre dos dunas los "corrales", bosquetes de pino piñonero y matorral. (www.donanavisitas.es)
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Solitude and beauty along Rucker Creek. This rare perennial stream provides a reliable water supply for a diverse range of flora and fauna, found only in Arizona's southeastern mountains and the adjacent Sierra Madre in Sonora, Mexico. - Chiricahua Wilderness, Coronado National Forest, Arizona
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My headlamp lit my way as I explored this path along this ridge, shortly after the Milky Way began to set.
🇫🇷 Cache-cache en couleur
L'automne est la saison des couleurs chaudes, du jaune jusqu'au fauve. Cela ne se dément pas dans la 🌳chênaie-hêtraie🌳où, à tous les étages, le vert s'efface peu à peu, laissant place à d'autres couleurs qu'un rien de soleil met en valeur. Le hêtre est l'un de ces peintres de la forêt, même s'il n'est pas le plus exubérant. Encore faut-il qu'il ait de nombreuses feuilles à colorier, car si l'été a été très sec, il aura perdu, plus que d'autres espèces, des feuilles dès la fin de l'été. C'est que le hêtre est un champion dans la production des feuilles pour la capture du rayonnement solaire, supplantant le chêne lorsqu'il le dépasse en taille, mais il le paie aussi cher lorsque l'eau vient à manquer.
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🇺🇸 ️Colorful hide-and-seek
Autumn is the season of warm colors, from yellow to tawny. This is no exception in the 🌳oak - beech forest🌳where, on every floor, green gradually fades, giving way to other colors that a touch of sunshine brings out to best advantage. Beech is one of these forest painters, even if it's not the most exuberant. But it needs to have plenty of leaves to color, because if the summer has been very dry, it will have lost more leaves than other species by the end of summer. Beech is a champion at producing leaves to capture the sun's rays, outperforming oak when it outstrips it in size, but it also pays dearly when water runs out.
Hêtre commun / Common beech / Fagus sylvatica
Milieu naturel, écosystème :🌳 Chênaie - Hêtraie🌳
Natural environment, ecosystem:🌳 Oak - beech grove🌳
Lieu / Location : Forêt de Fontainebleau / Seine-et-Marne / France
web site : pascalechevest.com
This is a frame from a side-mounted GoPro as I drove through an aspen forest on a back road near Monarch Pass, Colorado.
Together we’re building a new identity ecosystem, a globally recognized universal biometric ID blockchain system. It will be a biometric smartchip ID that will be tracked worldwide by AI to solve the 17 sustainable development goals.
The Mark of the Beast is a Certification Mark of authentication (the new global standard), affirming that all who are involved with this new global biometric digital ID blockchain are compliant with the core principles of the 17 Sustainable Development goals, which have been adopted by all the United Nations Member States. No one will be able to buy or sell or do anything in society without this Certification Mark. This Mark will now become mandatory for all. Without it, you will be arrested.
Through the means of a microchip implant we will be able to eradicate human trafficking (we cause the crisis, and then we offer you the solution). Every kind of supposed virtuous cause will be exploited to promote the 666 Beastchip. Climate change…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. Refugees…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. Human rights…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. Fight poverty…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah. For the sake of equality, inclusiveness, and sustainability…take the smartchip…blah, blah, blah.
www.accenture.com/us-en/services/blockchain/digital-identity
Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed (CREW)
This was a long pathway to adventure, but we had to turn back due to a large, afternoon thunderstorm developing.
We were pretty far out on the trail and just made it back to our car!
Hikers are also warned that there is the possibility of dangerous wildlife encounters.
myfwc.com/recreation/cooperative/crew/
ABC's and 123's E is for Ecosystem.
I moved sideways into clouds and skies for this series. This could be a "hard hat" storm out east. Keep your "rock" umbrella as ready as I keep my rock skis ready for the early season. Finally, the fairgrounds really approached twilight's end for last summer's carny; I am ready for the rides to pop. This cloud was a feast of captures. Clouds do this as the atmosphere vastly expands after compressing, cooling and clearing the Rockies from the west. I liked this sky but there are degrees. I figured folks on the eastern plains, Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma, better go for the hard hats. Black is the new blue.
No global warming under here; no global warming under there! People won't continue to believe the TheRump's lies after FEMA is broke. This will soon be a thumper and those folks will need to flash the sign of the cross to the heavens. That fossil-fueled summer heated up our atmosphere and with 8% more atmospheric moisture trigger smack downs worl d wide! Insurance companies declare events as acts of god instead of global warming for obvious reasons. They don't have payouts if they can blame god. It's more important to stage a WWIII even before our regular scheduled mass extinction. Few southern conservatives are listening. "The extinction won't be televised," Gil Scott Heron. Well... scientists said the weather would be more violent as the climate warmed. The heating increased humidity in the atmosphere by 8%. Here we are, we have met the enemy and he is us.