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Aambyvalley rd., Upper Lonavala Maharashtra India
The natural breeding habitat is hilly or mountainous country with cliffs, gorges and caves, with nesting typically up to an altitude of about 1,800 m (5,900 ft)
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.
Another little scene of nature doing its own thing - spotted outside the nearby church on my way to the heath at lunchtime.
Another incredibly busy day - worked through till nearly 7pm again tonight. But, shock horror, we actually went live with our new CRM and CMS (database and website) today! It feels a bit of an anti-climax, as I know there's still so much work to be done, but at least we've finally hit that milestone. Alle-frickin-lujah.
Aambyvalley rd., Upper Lonavala Maharashtra India
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I wish I knew how to geologically characterize the display here, along US highway 26 between Dubois and Riverton, Wyoming.
What I can say is that the stratigraphic colors tell ancient stories of the earth's history.
Wind River corridor, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Details of bemban mat edges a non-timber forest product (NTFP), West Kalimantan, Indonesia, May, 2010.
Photo by Ramadian Bachtiar/CIFOR
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Aambyvalley Rd.,OFF Lonavala,Mah.,India
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May be Ropalidia marginata
Id. Updated.
Aambyvalley Rd.,Off Lonavala,Mah.,India
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/75389#page/219/mode/1up (fig.1)
allied to Cusiala suiasasa (fig 13)
To live on the moon, you would need an atmosphere. On Earth the atmosphere is generated very largely by living organisms. To survive in your new atmosphere, you would have to take with you rather a lot of stuff that nature supplies here on Earth. Although many humans live in great luxury, more or less disconnected with the living world in their own perceptions, almost all of their well-being depends on goods and services delivered by things that live.
Everything we eat, for example, was recently nourished by ecosystems in the soil. These days the work of those soil organisms is often supplemented or disrupted by products synthesised from oil - another product of ecosystems, albeit ecosystems that lived some 360 million years ago. Cotton, wool, timber, and many pharmaceuticals are the product of the living world.
In 1981 Paul and Anne Ehrlich coined the term “ecosystem service” to refer to these things that humans get from the living world. A decade later the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment categorised the services into “provisioning” services such as food and fibre; “regulating” services such as control of climate, floods or disease; “cultural” services such as spiritual, cognitive, aesthetic and cultural benefits; and “supporting services” such as production of atmospheric oxygen, soil formation, and nutrient cycling, that themselves maintain the conditions for life on Earth.
This picture illustrates one of the more depressing findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, or MA; most of the ecosystems on Earth have been and continue to be degraded. The culprit, in every case, is the human species, either directly or indirectly. There are so many of us, and we demand so much from the planet, that ecosystem services are increasingly disrupted.
Among the out of focus tiles you will see “food” and “water”, and several other services that are missing letters here and there.
Commentary.
The North and South Downs Chalk ecosystem,
either side of The Weald, is a sublime and beautiful environment.
The Weald is a series of Sandstone Ridges and Clay Vales.
Over millions of years river, Spring and Periglacial meltwater
has worn away the top layer of a Chalk Dome,
reaching, perhaps, an altitude of 4,000 feet.
Under that, Upper and Lower Greensand has been eroded,
revealing in places, layers of Gault and Atherfield Clays,
particularly in the base of valleys.
The name “Weald” comes from the Saxon word, “Walden,”
meaning “forest” or “woodland.”
When the Romans invaded 2,000 years ago
and right through the Anglo-Saxon “Dark Ages,”
the area between the Downs was densely wooded.
Today, as much as 30% of “The Weald”
is still forest and woodland copse.
It is very different to the Chalk Downs,
having Acidic rather than Alkaline soil.
The Chalk acts like an Aquifer, permeating some water,
but retaining enough, to allow lush grass turf to thrive.
However, the easily eroded Sandstone retains little.
Water leaches through the sandy
soil, taking most nutrients with it.
Therefore, on the Sandstone ridges only hardy
Pines, Heather, Ferns and Bramble can survive the poor soil.
Where erosion has worn through the Sandstone
underlying clay retains water and much more nutrients,
making grass, fodder and arable crops
possible, in strips, along the valleys.
The Pine-forest pictured here,
is radiated by a setting sun.
This colourful, peaceful habitat is one that I have
grown up with and loved for many years.
Language not only communicates, it defines culture, nature, history, humanity, and ancestry. The indigenous languages of the Arctic have been formed and shaped in close contact with their environment. They are a valuable source of information and a wealth of knowledge on human interactions with nature is encoded in these languages. If a language is lost, a world is lost. This deep knowledge and interconnectedness is expressed in Arctic song, subsistence practices, and other cultural expressions but especially in place names across the Arctic. Place names of the indigenous peoples reflect subsistence practices, stories, dwelling sites, spawning sites, migratory routes of animals, and links to the sacred realms of the indigenous peoples of the north. This map presents the original languages of the respective indigenous peoples, even if they do not speak their languages today. Notes: Overlapping populations are not shown. The map does not claim to show exact boundaries between the individual language groups. Typical colonial populations, which are not traditional Arctic populations, are not shown (Danes in Greenland, Russians in the Russian Federation, non-native Americans in North America).
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Cheshire Wildlife Trust - "Formed by glaciers retreating after the last ice age, the meres and mosses are a chain of bogs, marsh and fen wetlands of international importance, spilling out from Cheshire into Shropshire, Staffordshire and parts of north Wales. While only a fragment of their former size, they are still home to many plants and insects that are rarely found elsewhere."
A Young mangrove sapling. Indonesian scientist Daniel Murdiyarso and Qatar-based scientist Mohamad Khawlie explore Qatar's most important ecosystem - the mangroves. Doha, Qatar.
Photo by Neil Palmer/CIAT
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A sunset viewed from Kure Atoll, located near Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. An atoll is an island of coral that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
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a community of plants, animals, and microorganisms that are linked by energy and nutrient flows and that interact with each other and with the physical environment.
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