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Merkle Natural Resources Management Area (formerly Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary) is on the Patuxent River in southern part of the Prince George’s County, Maryland. Merkle’s 1,670 acres are under the management of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, protecting the rich habitats of the Patuxent River marshes. Merkle provides sweeping views of the Patuxent River, which flows past a landscape composed of agricultural fields and woodlands.
From the garden this morning.
Lighting: I wanted the petals in the back to glow so I back lit them using a YN560-III in a Rogue grid behind the flowers and a little to camera left. Fill light was from 2 YN560-III's in soft boxes in front, on either side, and pointing at the center. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N,
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
This floribunda rose is called the Greetings Rose, and I photographed it last week in the rose garden of friends.
Lighting stuff: Lit with a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box at camera left. The strobe, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other picture that I've taken of roses can be seen in my Roses set, if you like that sort of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157624084160734/
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant album. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
I had a Southern California Human Resources Round Table event this morning at the Old Ranch Country Club in Seal Beach. The meeting was excellent, as usual, and during a break I walked outside for some fresh air. I didn't have my 5D MK III with me, so I snapped this one with my iPhone. A little bit of tonal contrast, dodging and burning, and touch up in PhotoShop and Lightroom and viola! The best camera is the one you have with you.
Etheostoma blennioides
Greenside Darter, female, 66 mm standard length
South Chickamauga Creek (Tennessee basin), Catoosa Co., GA
23 April 2013
Photo by Brett Albanese (Georgia DNR – Wildlife Resources)
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Brian P. McKeon is sworn in as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources by Acting Under Secretary of State for Management Carol Z. Perez at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2021. [State Department Photo by Mark Stewart/ Public Domain]
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March 13, 2018
A flicker and a starling feud over the small supply of suet left in the feeder.
The Blizzard of March 13, 2018
Brewster, Massachusetts
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Twinned with Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
A site blessed by nature
A special destiny has permitted a town with origins that reach far into the past to exploit all the resources of a site blessed by nature, knowing how to seize opportunities and how to survive through the centuries while remaining always of its own time.
A lock town at the exit from a lake on a road crossing the great routes from Italy to Geneva, its site puts in contact with two zones: the pre-Alpine mountains of the Bornes and the Bauges on one side and the plain with the Albanais district on the other.
Its site is particularly blessed with the lake which has become its symbol, the Thiou, a former industrial route that has become a tourist attraction, the huge Semnoz forest which has remained wild, the spacious Fins plain well-suited to unlimited urban development, and finally the sloping border of Annecy-le-Vieux, the pleasant beginning of the northern landscape.
As for its history, the nearness of Geneva was to be the cause of successive rises in status as the town became in succession capital of Geneva county when the Counts chased from that city settled there in the 13th century, then a bishopric after the triumph of Calvinism in the 16th century.
Promoted in the 15th century to capital of an attached territory of the House of Savoie, it was to experience a radical transformation at the beginning of the 19th century by becoming an active industrial centre, a role which grew stronger in the 20th century without slowing the growth of tourism.
3100 years before Jesus Christ : a village on the shore-line
Annecy is probably one of the oldest inhabited sites in the Northern Alps. In fact, the recent digs carried out by the Department of Sub-Aquatic and Sub-marine Archaeological research, set up in Annecy, have allowed us to date the lakeside village which has been identified off the bank at Annecy-le-Vieux at 3,100 years before Christ.
The station known as “the Port” located near the Swan Island ; could be used to fix the date at 2,500 years before Christ.
Boutae in the Gallo-roman period
The Gallo-romain period started about years before our own and saw the rapid emergence of a “village” of about 2,000 people given the name Boutae whose expansion into a town on the Fins plain let enough remains to let us know the precise location of the Forum, Temple, Thermal baths (to be seen at 36 avenue des Romains), and of the theatre, the final element which could be restored.
The triangular shape of this town shows the importance of the traffic routes converging on this crossroads: points leading to Faverges (Casuaria), Aix Les Bains (Aquae) and Geneva.
After the dispersal of the inhabitants of Boutae in the 6th century, a new stage was begun from the 12th century with the progressive occupation of the banks of the Thiou at the lake mouth, an advantageous position controlling a vital part of the great north-south axis, crossing the river at the level of the island which was very quickly converted into a stronghold.
The medieval town
From that moment the medieval town began to be built on both sides of the Thiou protected by the fortifications which would become the castle. This was the beginning of “New Annecy” which is mentioned in a text of 1107.
The growing township was given an unexpected boost when it became the residence of the Count of Geneva when he was chased out of his capital after disputes with the Bishops.
Annecy becomes Savoyarde
This event triggered the building of the castle which became the prince’s residence until the extinction of the Geneva family in 1394 when the last member, Robert of Geneva, who had become anti-Pope at Avignon under the name of Clement VII, died. A few years later, in 1401, Annecy became Savoyarde with the absorption of the County of Geneva into the Savoyard state under its most prestigious ruler, Amadeus VIII, the first Duke of Savoie.
The former capital of the Geneva district, having lost its title, went through a period of sharp decline caused by a series of terrible fires which destroyed the greater part of the town in 1412 and then again in 1448. Amadeus VIII, realising the seriousness of the situation, took action to help the city to rise from its own ruins, undertaking reconstruction of the castle and the town.
He then completed these signs of regard for the town by creating an attached territory of Geneva for his son Philippe in 1444. And so Annecy rose from the ashes and regained its title of capital of a county including the districts of Geneva, Faucigny and Beaufort.
This brilliant dynasty of princes formed matrimonial connections with the royal family of France and received from Francis I the Duchy of Nemours (near Fontainebleau), conferring on these new princes the title of Dukes of Geneva-Nemours.
Annecy as a bishopric
This period left a permanent mark on the history of Annecy, when it became a bishopric after the Bishop of Geneva decided to leave the town after the Protestant Reformation in 1535. He was followed by several religious communities who further reinforced Annecy’s importance as a religious centre, which was such that some historians called it “The Rome of Savoie”.
From this period Annecy has preserved some beautiful buildings which permanently enriched its heritage: the Nemours Lodge, St Peter’s Cathedral, the Lambert House, the Note Dame de Liesse bell-tower. If we add to this the glorious history of the episcopate of St François de Sales, the opening of the Chappuisian College, and the creation of the Florimontane Academy, we can speak without doubt of a golden age for our town.
The occupation of Savoie by the French Revolutionary Army (1792) shook the town even though we notice a decline in religious fervour from the beginning of the 18th century.
An industrial destiny
Now open to new ideas, the town experienced a transformation for industrial uses of the sites vacated by the clergy, which was a considerable economic boost. Factories of all sorts were started, powered by hydraulic force from the Thiou.
It was a also a revolutionary vision which inspired the town plan drawn up by Thomas-Dominique Ruphy in 1794 in which a wide rectilinear road on the main traffic routes was designed to divert circulation from the historic town centre.
During the period of Sardinian rule (1815-1860), the industrial destiny of the town was confirmed by the plan for hydro-electric power carried out at the end of the century.
But from the middle of the century, the new sensibility concerning Alpine sites opened the region to the fashion for tourism attracting ever-growing numbers of visitors to our lake.
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Kate Friesen (right) gives a tour of Singletree Flower Farm in Goshen, Indiana to Indiana NRCS district conservationist Wes Krug June 29, 2022. Friesen and her husband Scott Kempf founded the fresh cut flower farm in 2018. They sell flowers through a CSA, at local farmers’ markets and for special events. Friesen and Kempf received assistance through USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to add a high tunnel and hedgerow to the farm. (NRCS photo by Brandon O’Connor)
Foto da: www.museoferrara.it/resources/pdf/books/8/files/assets/ba... Con questa didascalia: Inaugurazione del Padiglione di Oculistica (28 Maggio 1950). Al centro l’Arcivescovo di Ferrara, Monsignor Bovelli benedice la struttura, a sinistra Max Ascoli, la moglie Marion Rosenwald. Tra i due ospiti il Prof. Ferruccio Ravenna, primario all’Arcispedale S.Anna. Espulso nel ’38 per le leggi razziali, trovò rifugio in Svizzera, durante il periodo bellico e venne poi reintegrato nell’organico del S.Anna a guerra finita. La moglie, Lina Bassani, cognata del Prof. Magrini, presidente della Comunità Ebraica, è citata da Giorgio Bassani nel “Giardino dei Finzi Contini”.
L' arcivescovo di Ferrara Ruggero Bovelli (Todi 1875 - Ferrara 1954) era lo zio di mio nonno Giacomo Bovelli.
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Padiglione di Oculistica "Adriana Ascoli" dell'Ospedale Sant'Anna nella vecchia sede di Corso Giovecca a Ferrara.
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Inauguration of the "Adriana Ascoli" Ophthalmology Pavilion of the Sant'Anna Hospital in the former headquarters of Corso Giovecca in Ferrara. 28 May 1950. At the center the Archbishop of Ferrara, Monsignor Bovelli blesses the structure.
The Archbishop of Ferrara Ruggero Bovelli (Todi 1875 - Ferrara 1954) was the uncle of my grandfather Giacomo Bovelli.
Spherical panorama of the Prieto (Romero) family farm's orchards, in Somis, Calif., on Nov. 15, 2018.
Salvador Prieto grew up watching and helping his father grow corn and beans on a small farm in Mexico. The journey from bean fields to 20-acre orchard owner with his wife Martha Romero was not a straight and narrow path. In fact, it was music that brought him to the United States. Today the passion is agriculture.
Similarly, Romero didn’t follow a career in agriculture to her beautiful and healthy avocado and lemon orchard. Romero grew up a city girl in the heart of Los Angeles. Now sharing this farm with her husband and two children, she quickly credits her success to the support and assistance from her family to navigate the learning curve.
Constantly seeking improvement on the family’s orchard, Romero discovered the local Farm Bureau and the Ventura County Agricultural Irrigated Land Group (VCAILG) coalition. VCAILG put Romero in touch with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Ventura Resource Conservation District, for technical and financial assistance to implement conservation and management practices.
NRCS California District Conservationist Dawn Afman, Soil Conservationist Elizabeth Keith, and Resource Conservationist Brooks Engelhardt, have all provided technical assistance and invested their time and expertise in helping Prieto and Romero incorporate conservation practices in their orchard. Prieto and Romero were immediately intrigued by NRCS’s efforts to improve soil health.
“At first it was overwhelming, but many other farmers I know are members, so it is comforting to know that I am not alone,” said Romero. “We need to make a profit, obviously, but, for me, I want to do it while protecting mother nature and precious resources like water. I am able to do this with NRCS’s help.”
Prieto and Romero learned a lot from trial and error. Romero admits that she even bought her trees before the land was ready. But learning opportunities, like an early community garden project, gave them critical knowledge and experience.
A big first conservation practice they learned was mulching to save water and reduce weeds. NRCS helped Prieto and Romero with this, through an Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) contract, to apply mulch to their orchard floor to conserve soil moisture and improve soil health in the Fall of 2018.
“Every time we have a question or need assistance, NRCS has been nothing but helpful,” added Romero. “They let us know about other programs out in the community and invited us to their annual Latino Farmer Conference, where my husband and I learned about other helpful resources.”
Recently, Prieto and Romero entered into a new NRCS contract to implement Irrigation Water Management (IWM) to their orchard. The IWM plan includes installing moisture sensors into the ground, which transmit continuous data to cloud-based storage, and accessed through a smart device app on their phones. The information lets them know when, where and how long to irrigate. This knowledge will help them toward their goal of producing 6,000 pounds of produce per acre.
Looking toward the future, Romero expressed that knowledge is key. “Before we plant further, we need to get educated on how to do it best,” concluded Romero. “From the planting of a seed or planting of a tree, we need the entire process to be profitable. It's not just about planting it. It's about preparing the land and using the resources wisely.”
In the meantime, Romero enjoys the weekends because she does not need to be worried about picking up the kids from school or rushing around. She just wants to be out in the orchard, making it better From mulching to pruning or irrigating and weeding. The family’s goal is to make the farm “better tomorrow than it was today.”
Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department’s focal point for the nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.
The agencies and services supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
NRCS has a proud history of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners for more than 80 years. USDA helps people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.
From weather to pests, and from a lack of time to markets, each American farmer faces a unique set of challenges. The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) helps agricultural producers confront those challenges – all while conserving natural resources like soil, water, and air.
This voluntary conservation program helps producers make conservation work for them. Together, NRCS and producers invest in solutions that conserve natural resources for the future while also improving agricultural operations.
Through EQIP, NRCS provides agricultural producers with financial resources and one-on-one help to plan and implement improvements, or what NRCS calls conservation practices. Using these practices can lead to cleaner water and air, healthier soil and better wildlife habitat, all while improving agricultural operations. Through EQIP, you can voluntarily implement conservation practices and NRCS co-invests in these practices with you.
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I posted my 5 for the challenge, but I still have more of Billy's story to tell. I should be doing a ton of other stuff, but this is way more fun. :)
Annie, Rahnee and Janice moderate the Sex Resources workshop. Janice is telling folks how much she enjoys sex as a disabled person. ;)
Merkle Natural Resources Management Area (formerly Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary) is on the Patuxent River in southern part of the Prince George’s County, Maryland. Merkle’s 1,670 acres are under the management of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, protecting the rich habitats of the Patuxent River marshes. Merkle provides sweeping views of the Patuxent River, which flows past a landscape composed of agricultural fields and woodlands.
USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment Dr. Homer Wilkes, U.S. Senator Cory Booker and White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation John Podesta announced historic funding through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand access to urban nature, combat the climate crisis, and advance environmental justice, after meeting with local and state stake holders, April 12, 2023, in Newark, New Jersey.
The funding announced today is part of a $1.5 billion investment in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry Program from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The grant funding is available to community-based organizations, tribes, municipal and state governments, nonprofit partners, universities, and other eligible entities as they work to increase tree cover in urban spaces and boost equitable access to nature while bolstering resilience to extreme heat, storm-induced flooding, and other climate impacts. This historic level of investment will enable the Forest Service to support projects to improve public health, increase access to nature, and deliver real economic and ecological benefits to cities, towns and tribal communities across the country. (USDA photo by Christophe Paul)
N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission biologist Gabrielle Graeter helps Sue Cameron of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service with her helmet before entering a retired mine in Haywood County, N.C. to inventory bats and look for signs of white-nose syndrome.
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U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Francis Reyes, the 2017 Army Human Resources Command Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, performs security during the situational training exercise at the Command’s Best Warrior Competition held on Fort Knox, Ky., May 9, 2017. Reyes, along with Sgt. Kandy Christian, the 2017 Army Human Resources Command Soldier of the Year, moved on to the Fort Knox Installation competition held May 21 through 25. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Brian Hamilton) www.dvidshub.net
The Thirty-Second Session Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 28 to December 2, 2016.
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Glaciers and ice caps cover about 10% of the world’s landmass. These are concentrated in Greenland and Antarctica and contain 70% of the world’s freshwater. Unfortunately, most of these resources are located far from human habitation and are not readily accessible for human use. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), 96% of the world’s frozen freshwater is at the South and North Poles, with the remaining 4% spread over 550,000 km2 of glaciers and mountainous icecaps measuring about 180,000 km3 (UNEP, 1992; Untersteiner, 1975; WGMS, 1998, 2002). Groundwater is by far the most abundant and readily available source of freshwater, followed by lakes, reservoirs, rivers and wetlands. Analysis indicates that: - Groundwater represents over 90% of the world’s readily available freshwater resource (Boswinkel, 2000). About 1.5 billion people depend upon groundwater for their drinking water supply (WRI, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, 1998). - The amount of groundwater withdrawn annually is roughly estimated at 600-700 km3, representing about 20% of global water withdrawals (WMO, 1997). - A comprehensive picture of the quantity of groundwater withdrawn and consumed annually around the world does not exist. Most freshwater lakes are located at high altitudes, with nearly 50% of the world’s lakes located in Canada alone. Many lakes, especially those in arid regions, become salty through evaporation, which concentrates the inflowing salts. The Caspian Sea, the Dead Sea, and the Great Salt Lake are among the world’s major salt lakes. Rivers form a hydrologic mosaic, with an estimated 263 international river basins covering 45.3% (231,059,898 km2) of the earth’s land surface, excluding Antarctica (UNEP, Oregon State University et al., in preparation). The total volume of water in the world’s rivers is estimated at 2,115 km3 (Groombridge and Jenkins, 1998).
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Rancher, Landowner, and Military Veteran Chuck Merlo stops at his pasture fence to see how the U.S. Department of Agriculture's USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services NRCS Conservation Practice 614 Watering Facility and 516 Livestock Pipeline projects are progressing with active installations that will improve the lives of his cattle by having a ready supply of water in this remote pasture on the C.G. Merlo Ranch in San Saba, Texas, on June 11, 2022.
The pipeline will connect to their freshwater supply line and pipe to troughs for their cattle in distant pastures. Having the water there promotes rotational grazing, eliminates long walks to the pond opposite the ranch, and reduces surface pressure at the edge of the existing pond.
The work begins with locating the existing water and utility lines, then making the first of multiple passes of the trencher to dig down to where the new water pipe will be buried. After junctions and valves are installed, the laid pipeline is inspected, and the trench is filled.
A watering facility features an easy-to-install long-lasting fiberglass trough seen near the main pipeline trench and overflow drainpipe trench. After leveling the ground under the slotted fence, he will slide the trough into a position where cattle can drink from either side of the fence. The supply pipe, float valve, and drain system will be added to continue the installation. While that occurs, Merlo will have wildlife escape ramps made, and then he will install them. Lastly, he will use gravel to fill around the trough to help keep it in place and reduce the erosion from livestock frequently standing in place as they drink from the trough.
Over the years, he has participated in the USDA cost-sharing improvement and financial programs. Multiple programs have helped stabilize the CG Merlo Ranch operation during the drought and the pandemic. Through the USDA NRCS, he is implementing the Conservation Practices number 382 Fence, 516 Livestock Pipeline, and 314 Brush Management. Additionally, the USDA Farm Services Agency FSA has assisted with Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act CARES and the 2014 Farm Bill's Livestock Forage Disaster Program LFP. USDA Media by Lance Cheung.
For more information about the Livestock Pipeline Conservation Practice Standard 516, go to nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/nra/?cid=stelprdb1092538.
For more information about Watering Facility Conservation Practice Standard 614, go to nrcs.usda.gov/wps/PA_NRCSConsumption/download?cid=nrcseprd1671242&ext=pdf