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BRITISH RESOURCE
FLAG : GIBRALTAR
REGISTRY : GIBRALTAR
IMO :7376850
TYPE :S.TANKER [VLCC]
BUILDER :MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. NAGASAKI
COUNTRY :JAPAN
YD NR :1738
SHIP DESIGN :
BUILT :1975
GRT :131534
DWT :269695
OWNER :BP SHIPPING LTD. SUNLEY ON THAMES
EX :
LOCATION :SEACOMBE 15 AUGUST 1988
Overcrowded forest stand in the Black Hills. Overcrowded forest stands are one of the number one resource concerns within the Black Hills. Overcrowded forest stands create the perfect conditions for catastrophic wildland fires. These stands often stagnate and grow very little. Trees in these stands are also more stressed. This increases the chances of large beetle infestations causing large areas of tree mortality. Overcrowded forest stands can be treated through precommercial thinning to reduce the number of trees and therefore increase resource availability. The desired benefits on forested acres in South Dakota can include more understory grasses and vegetation for livestock grazing and wildlife grazing. Forest thinning will allow more sunlight and moisture to infiltrate the forest floor and improve the grasses and forbs growing there.
Resource concerns in this photo include Plant Structure and Composition, Wildfire Hazard.
Plant Structure and Composition – Imbalance of one species of tree or one age class of trees.
Degraded plant composition occurs when there is a lack of diversity of plant species within a geographic area or an imbalance in the relative abundance of plant species. Degraded structure refers to plant density, distribution patterns, or height and layering that is not suited to providing the desired conservation benefits and products.
Wildfire Hazard – tree stand is too thick, has too many ladder fuel trees, and canopy is closed.
Fire can be an important and often beneficial part of the natural ecosystem; however, uncontrolled or “wild” fire can pose threats to life, health, and property. Excessive fuel loads can result in a fire too intense, causing damage to the desired plant community and site conditions. In addition, the secondary effects of some wildfires, including erosion, landslides, introduction of invasive species, and changes in water quality, are often more disastrous than the fire itself.
•Overstocked forest increases the risk of fire outbreak
•Continuous fuels increase the risk of the spread of fire
•Abundance of ladder fuels increase fire intensity and potential rate of spread
Practices that can address these resource concerns:
383 Fuel Break - A strip or block of land on which the vegetation, debris, and detritus have been reduced and/or modified to control or diminish the risk of the spread of fire crossing the strip or block of land. Control and reduce the risk of the spread of fire by treating, removing, or modifying vegetation, debris, and detritus.
666 Forest Stand Improvement - The manipulation of species composition, stand structure, or stand density by cutting or killing selected trees or understory vegetation to achieve desired forest conditions or obtain ecosystem services. Consider crop tree management (Perkey et al. 1994) when making decisions about which trees to retain and which to cut, kill cut, or kill.
For more information on South Dakota's resource concerns, visit www.sdresrouceconcerns.org or www.farmers.gov/conserve/tool. You can also reach out to your local NRCS office or Conservation District. Find your local USDA NRCS office and employee directory at: bit.ly/ContactNRCSSD
Overcrowded forest stand in the Black Hills. Overcrowded forest stands are one of the number one resource concerns within the Black Hills. Overcrowded forest stands create the perfect conditions for catastrophic wildland fires. These stands often stagnate and grow very little. Trees in these stands are also more stressed. This increases the chances of large beetle infestations causing large areas of tree mortality. Overcrowded forest stands can be treated through precommercial thinning to reduce the number of trees and therefore increase resource availability. The desired benefits on forested acres in South Dakota can include more understory grasses and vegetation for livestock grazing and wildlife grazing. Forest thinning will allow more sunlight and moisture to infiltrate the forest floor and improve the grasses and forbs growing there.
Resource concerns in this photo include Plant Structure and Composition, Wildfire Hazard.
Plant Structure and Composition – Imbalance of one species of tree or one age class of trees.
Degraded plant composition occurs when there is a lack of diversity of plant species within a geographic area or an imbalance in the relative abundance of plant species. Degraded structure refers to plant density, distribution patterns, or height and layering that is not suited to providing the desired conservation benefits and products.
Wildfire Hazard – tree stand is too thick, has too many ladder fuel trees, and canopy is closed.
Fire can be an important and often beneficial part of the natural ecosystem; however, uncontrolled or “wild” fire can pose threats to life, health, and property. Excessive fuel loads can result in a fire too intense, causing damage to the desired plant community and site conditions. In addition, the secondary effects of some wildfires, including erosion, landslides, introduction of invasive species, and changes in water quality, are often more disastrous than the fire itself.
•Overstocked forest increases the risk of fire outbreak
•Continuous fuels increase the risk of the spread of fire
•Abundance of ladder fuels increase fire intensity and potential rate of spread
Practices that can address these resource concerns:
383 Fuel Break - A strip or block of land on which the vegetation, debris, and detritus have been reduced and/or modified to control or diminish the risk of the spread of fire crossing the strip or block of land. Control and reduce the risk of the spread of fire by treating, removing, or modifying vegetation, debris, and detritus.
666 Forest Stand Improvement - The manipulation of species composition, stand structure, or stand density by cutting or killing selected trees or understory vegetation to achieve desired forest conditions or obtain ecosystem services. Consider crop tree management (Perkey et al. 1994) when making decisions about which trees to retain and which to cut, kill cut, or kill.
For more information on South Dakota's resource concerns, visit www.sdresrouceconcerns.org or www.farmers.gov/conserve/tool. You can also reach out to your local NRCS office or Conservation District. Find your local USDA NRCS office and employee directory at: bit.ly/ContactNRCSSD
Queen City Bottling Works - 1907- 42 - TRF - Owners Joseph Becker, Wm Becker, & Frank Protz - Located near the Methodist Church parking lot near water tower 1997-010-013 & 1997-040-(051-053).
More at pchs.org/resources/1997-010-056
1963 Piano Recital, May 12, Mrs. Max Jensen; May Include: Sherryl Sjulson,Coral Sjulson, Brian Larson,Donna Sjulson,Faye Anderson,Forrest Anderson,Linda Arnold,Carol Grand,Paula Rae Grand,Gary Hook,Steve Hook,Mitchell Kezar,Cindy Langlie,SyzAnne Mercil,.
More at pchs.org/resources/2005-003-008
The Cory tug 'Resource' pulling its barge loaded with London rubbish containers seen here passing a selection of Woolwich housing blocks as it heads downstream along the River Thames to the Essex marshes at Mucking.
Northrop School Album-1990-1 - 3 - Mrs Gibson - B: Jennifer Rude, Kenny Lubarski, Mark Larson, Mary Anenson, Marissa Hanson, Luisa Pena-Pena, Shaun Fort, Lisa Sorteberg, 3rd: Marcy Hamm, Deirdre Dally, Dan Linder, Andy Brown, Adam Haviland, Justin Barth,.
More at pchs.org/resources/1997-091-356
Corps' Natural Resource Specialist Ranger John Mueller describes the damages Quagga mussels inflict on our lakes and dams.
Over 900 participants descended on the Tucumcari, N.M. Outdoor Classroom to celebrate the 41st Annual Earth Day on April 21, 2011. Students and teachers from Tucumcari, Fort Sumner, San Jon, and Logan, N.M., elementary schools attended the all-day event that rotated groups of students through 10 separate learning stations. Presenters included experts from the Nature Conservancy speaking about reptiles and amphibians, the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs on archeology, an entomologist from New Mexico State University on butterflies, New Mexico Game and Fish on New Mexico wildlife, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Corps’ Natural Resource Specialist Ranger John Mueller from the District’s Conchas Lake and Ranger Bob Mumford from the District’s Santa Rosa Lake provided 20 interpretive presentations that centered on the invasive species known as the Zebra/Quagga mussel. Students learned about the nuisance species’ origin, history, how to identify them and ways to prevent their spread to new habitats.
Ranger Mueller unveiled a new educational tool: a Quagga mussel infested propeller that had been submerged in Lake Mead, Nevada for 13 months and is now enclosed in a protected display case. This helped inspire interest and provoked many questions from the students.
Northrop School Album-1991-2 - 3 - Mr Buhl - B: Jerry Larson, Justin Iverson, Brandon Bolstad, Ryan Sabo, John Schwartz, Kristin Muzy, Kelsey Liden, M: Mr Buhl, Melissa Clark, Lisa Joppru, Nathan Koland, Dewey Worker, brandi Fort, Audra Nesland,.
More at pchs.org/resources/1997-091-367
Youth in Haiti participate in a training by TRI.
UUSC, Rights in Humanitarian Crises program.
Location: Haiti
Partner: Trauma Resource Institute (TRI)
Photographer: Aiesha Cummings
uusc.org
The World Café on "Mobilizing Our Future".
On the 14th November in the Montbrillant Building of ITU, this World Café provided a cross-section of ITU staff with the opportunity to contribute to some of the key strategic challenges faced by the ITU
The objective of the event was to pull together the ideas and input from staff on how we can better attract and engage Sector Members as well as develop new approaches for resource mobilization. 356 ideas were collected - the most abundant harvest so far from any ITU World Café.
ITU/R.Farrell
Waale Photo - Back: May Elizabeth, Lillian Inga, Rudolph Joseph, Adolph Clarence, Earl Berge, Adeline Viola, Agnes, Front: Myrtle Florence, John Bugge, Alma (Berggren) Bugge, Wilhelm Leonard. John & Alma (Berggren) Bugge Family.
More at pchs.org/resources/2005-066-001
Postcard - Thief River Falls - Interior of J.A. Swore's Confectionary 207 LaBree Ave. - 2 copies - Postmarked 1909.
More at pchs.org/resources/1998-008-041
Resource Concern: Concentration of Salts and Other Chemicals
Salinity is a condition when water soluble salts have accumulated in the soil. Saline soils are indicative of inadequate drainage to leach salts from the soil or upward migration of salt from shallow ground water. Sodic soils are high in sodium relative to concentrations of calcium and magnesium. Salinity or sodicity occurs naturally or may result from management practices.
Saline seeps form due to insufficient water use in adjacent upslope recharge areas. Excess soil water moves through the soil profile collecting salts along the way. Eventually, that soil water with the dissolved salts encounters an impermeable layer, such as bedrock, and then moves laterally downslope to where a water table builds up. When the water table gets close to the soil surface, evaporation removes the water and salts are left behind. Over time, the area becomes so salty that only very salt tolerant plants can survive, if any plants at all. In South Dakota, this situation occurs primarily below cropland acres that traditionally have been in a wheat-fallow crop rotation. Even continuous small grain fields can lead to saline seeps due to the fact there are no (or very few) living plants to utilize soil moisture after crop harvest. However, saline seeps can occur downslope of native rangeland or tame pastures that have been over-utilized for many years. In these cases, the grass plant vigor has been depleted and the plants can’t utilize all the available soil moisture.
Conservation Practice: 610 Salinity and Sodic Soil Management
Proper management begins with the correct diagnosis of the problem area. Utilize the 610 Conservation Practice Specification Guide Sheet for the characterization and identification of saline and/or sodic areas.
Mitigation shall include vegetative measures to reduce subsurface water and salt movement from the recharge area to the discharge area. Vegetative measures include establishment of deep rooted perennial crops such as wheatgrass and the deeper rooted cultivars of alfalfa.
For more information on South Dakota's resource concerns, visit www.sdresrouceconcerns.org or www.farmers.gov/conserve/tool. You can also reach out to your local NRCS office or Conservation District. Find your local USDA NRCS office and employee directory at: bit.ly/ContactNRCSSD.
Natural Resource Conservation Services Visit to Peder Engelstad Pioneer Village - June 16, 2008 - arranged by Cory Drummond.
More at pchs.org/resources/2008-005-019
Lori Jennings Harris, St. Mary's County Aging and Human Services director, opens the panel discussion at Veterans Resource Event at CSM Leonardtown
Hazel, MN - Wedul Family - Standing Across Back: Arnt, Martin, Berit, Anna, Vernon, Beatrice, Johanna, Oscar, & Melvin, F: Otto, Merit, Kenneth, Ole, & Maynard.
More at pchs.org/resources/2008-020-011
Discussion of the International Amateur Scanning League and the FedFlix program with the Honorable William Lacy Clay, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and the National Archives of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. From left to right: Anthony Clark (Professional Staff Member), Liz Pruszko (IASL volunteer), Carl Malamud (Public.Resource.Org), Chairman William Lacy Clay. Photograph by the U.S. House of Representatives.
This corner lot on Northeast Martin Luther King Boulevard at Shaver St. is on track to become a soul food cart court and an education center where youth can learn about Black History.
The site is the former home of The Burger Barn, which hit the headlines in 1981 when two Portland police officers tossed four dead possums into its doorway, sparking outrage and protests in the Black community. And the possum incident is not the site’s only claim to historical importance…
Owner Andre Raiford said he is happy for the site to become a resource for the community.
The building is set to be renovated and renamed the Common Unity Resource Building. Stocked with archive materials and examples of historic preservation the building will expose students to careers in historic preservation, construction and the STEM disciplines, says Teressa Raiford.
Along with Cathy Galbraith, executive director of the Bosco-Milligan Foundation, Teressa has been working to find grants and other funding for the project. She says she plans to crowdfund some of the money needed through a Kickstarter page. Livermore architects have volunteered to work on the design, which will include shrubs and greenery to shield the eating and meeting area from busy Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Find the full story online at theskanner.com
Development Wraps Black History and Career Education into Preservation Project
Wellington Bridge, line now closed, Rosslare-Waterford, May 2009. During an RPSI railtour. The signal box diagram is an essential component of the whole. I put this up because I have been delighted to find this resource largely looking at my native East Anglia www.flickr.com/photos/pwayowen/albums/72157627782450647 .
Bridgeman Creamery - 1993 - TRF - Main Ave So. - Looking NE.
More at pchs.org/resources/2008-023-009
Processing whitebark pine seeds. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: November 2, 2006
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center.
Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
The 1st Squadron, 94th Cavalry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division participated in the Minnesota Employment Resource Team training at Camp Buehring Kuwait. The Employment Resource Team is the first event of its kind where civilian business professionals, as well as representatives from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, have volunteered their time and services to come overseas to help veterans prepare to pursue their college education or return to the Minnesota work force. The 1st Squadron, 94th Cavalry is based out of Duluth, Minn.
Photo courtesy Minnesota National Guard.
www.minnesotanationalguard.org/press_room/e-zine/articles...
The World Café on "Mobilizing Our Future".
On the 14th November in the Montbrillant Building of ITU, this World Café provided a cross-section of ITU staff with the opportunity to contribute to some of the key strategic challenges faced by the ITU
The objective of the event was to pull together the ideas and input from staff on how we can better attract and engage Sector Members as well as develop new approaches for resource mobilization. 356 ideas were collected - the most abundant harvest so far from any ITU World Café.
ITU/R.Farrell
Crashed Economy: Debugging and Rebooting
With: [1st part:] Steve Lambert (usa) and Daniel Garcia Andujar (es); [2nd part:] Jaromil (it/nl), Kate Rich (uk) and Shintaro Miyazaki (jp/de)
Respondent: Elanor Colleoni (it/dk).
To face the economical crisis of these times means trying to question dualistic perspectives such as capitalism vs. anti-capitalism, as well as to imagine a sustainable network of values in which accumulation of growth and precariety are substituted by a grassroots ecology of sharing practices built on increasing capacity for sociability. Is it possible to imagine a different future based on the empowerment of grassroots communities with concepts and tools to overcome scarcity, and proprietary logics? This event presents two couples of projects which question the notion of capitalism through direct intervention and collective reflections, and propose an exodus from proprietary money and trade regulation through distributed commons and practices of social networking.
The discussion is part of reSource Markets, which reflects on the meaning of capitalism in a time of crisis, proposing both critical and playful alternatives to the capitalistic logic by intervening directly within the economical systems.