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The Earth is what we all have in common.
Wendell Berry
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy
The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.
John Paul II
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
John Ruskin
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
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Sinaa out of Montreal is the last vessel of Iqaluit’s 2025 shipping season readies for departure, cranes lifting the last south‑bound containers into place. Inside are the remnants of a year’s work—scrapped machinery, metals, cardboard, waste oils, and other hazardous materials—bound for recycling stations far to the south.
Each load is more than cargo; it is stewardship, a deliberate effort to safeguard Nunavut’s fragile Arctic environment while connecting northern life to global systems of care and responsibility.
When pondering a title for this photo of this fashionable (?) ball cap, and looking up "ancêtre" (Fr. ancestor), I was reminded of the children's book "The Elders [i.e., the Old Ones, the Ancestors] Are Watching" illustrated by BC/First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers.
This 10 minute video tells the story and shows Roy's artwork. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VLBfOqS4j4
Roy will also be speaking in Langley BC September 25:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/roy-henry-vickers-reconciliation-the-...
Blue Pullmans and some of their crews await the off at Old Oak Common
Dining Cars - all rebuilt Tri-ang bar one by Bachmann
Crew figures - Bachmann
Sheds - scratch-built
Track - Peco Streamline 100
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Developed countries rely far too much on one-time-use plastics. The effect on the environment is disastrous.
One of the zoos I serve as a volunteer is promoting awareness, and asking people to consider alternatives. I happened to see this abandoned plastic bottle at that same zoo.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum / Pima County, Arizona
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Reminiscing on the halcyon days of trolleybus operation in Foxton under the stewardship of Ian Little, a reboot of a snap posted on 28 November 2014.
Dunedin No. 1 is viewed turning from Wharf St. into Harbour St. in 1998 shortly having a Dulux makeover after being acquired from the Wellington Tramway Museum in Paekakariki in March that same year and was in Foxton from the Wellington Tramway Museum (was towed from Queen Elizabeth Park to Foxton on 28/3/1998) on a lifetime loan arrangement.
TROLLEYBUS NO. 1 RETURNS
By Timothy Brown
25 June 2016
Dunedin's first trolleybus has returned to the city, 50 years after it was taken out of service and sent to the North Island.
The bus was stored in Wellington for years before beginning its journey south last year and finally returned to Dunedin last Friday after spending almost a year in Christchurch.
Otago Heritage Bus Society chairman Anthony Holliday said he was pleased the bus had returned.
"After 50 years it's come home again,'' he said.
DCT No. 1 left Dunedin in 1966, after 16 years of commercial service and was driven to the North Island under its own power, towing a generator.
The vehicle was built in Wellington for Dunedin City Corporation Tramways by New Zealand Motor Bodies Ltd, as a prototype design specifically for Dunedin.
The first route to open was No. 6, Queen's Gardens to Gardens, via Castle St, followed by route No. 8, Queens Gardens to Opoho, via Castle St.
The society had ambitions of returning the derelict vehicle to operating condition, but that hope remained years and thousands of dollars away, Mr Holliday said.
"We are talking three to five years at least,'' he said.
"We are probably talking of hundreds of thousands [of dollars to fix it]. High tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.''
The bus had spent decades parked by the seaside in Wellington [Queen Elizabeth Park in Paekakariki] and the society was yet to assess the damage caused by the years of salty sea air.
The society hoped to begin assessing and working on the vehicle in spring and would be raising funds to contribute to the repair, Mr Holliday said.
If returning the bus to operating condition proved too difficult, the society would "at least'' make it a static display, he said.
The group had access to another trolleybus which would be used for spare parts.
Each year, the society's restored vehicles make an appearance on Christmas Day, Good Friday and Easter Sunday as the Suburban Rumbler, Dunedin's public holiday bus service operating along two major Dunedin bus routes. - Otago Daily Times.
Story and video:
www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/388126/trolley-bus-no1-returns...
Dunedin City Transport (DCT) No. 1 [British United Traction RETB1 chassis built by Leyland with NZMB B40D bodywork and Metropolitan-Vickers electrics] was built under the directions and specifications of the Dunedin City Corporation Transport board, (later known as Dunedin City Transport) in 1945. The Government of the time encouraged local government “to Buy British and help our Mother Country”. New Zealand Motor Bodies won the tender to supply Dunedin with initially 73 trolleybuses with British United Traction motors and Leyland chassis.
The fully built buses were delivered between August 1950 and September 1958. An extra 6 were ordered in 1958, which were delivered in 1962 to make 79 in total.
DCT No. 1 was the first trolleybus for Dunedin to roll off the production line at the New Zealand Motor Bodies Petone workshop in Wellington on the 6th August 1950 and was soon shipped South to Dunedin where it awaited its turn to be put to work, two other trolleybuses arrived one month later.
No. 1 was distinquished from its subsequent Christchurch-bodied examples by its square-cornered front windscreen and the small visor above.
After a few trials and driver training along the a new route, Queens Gardens to Opoho via Castle Street. All three trolleybuses were put to work on 23 December 1950 showcasing Dunedin’s new modern comfortable enclosed public transport to the delight of the Christmas shopper. The Dunedin trolleybus system covered 26 miles of overhead wire, 19 routes and a total of 79 vehicles over the duration of its operation.
Dunedin boasts to have had the world’s most southern trolleybus system and DCT No. 1 was the first bus to be operated on it. DCT No. 1 retired in 1966 from the Dunedin City Transport fleet only after 16 years of service. The average age of a trolleybus to retire in Dunedin was 19 years. DCT No. 1 had travelled over 249,147 miles.
After being purchased for private use in 1966, DCT No. 1 was transported North under its own power, using a DC generator towed in a trailer with the destination of Wellington to become part of the Wellington Tramway Museum at Queen Elizabeth Park.
After operating successfully along side the museum’s trams and other trolleybuses with the Wellington Tramway Museum, DCT No.No. 1 moved North to a coastal settlement of Foxton in March 1998 to join Ian Little’s collection of heritage buses. Here DCT No. 1 operated on the small museum trolleybus system of Foxton alongside other retired trolleybuses from all over New Zealand, and continued good service until 2008 when Ian Little passed away.
Mr Little’s passing prompted the return of DCT No. 1 to Wellington Tramway Museum in late 2008. Unfortunately since DCT No. 1 had initially left, the Wellington Tramway Museum had a change of policy, and trolley-buses are not part of that policy allowing the focus to remain on the regions trams and other rail transport. DCTNo. 1 was then de-accessioned later in 2009, but retained and waiting for a new owner that the Wellington Tramway Museum deems appropriate.
In early 2011 the Wellington Tramway Museum approached the Otago Heritage Bus Society to see if they would like to acquire DCT No. 1 for the Society’s heritage fleet. After some careful consideration the Otago Heritage Bus Society has kindly accepted DCT No. 1. In July 2015 No. 1 was at the Ferrymead Historic Park in Christchurch on its trip south from Wellington.
By the time the network was completed, Dunedin trolleybuses more completely dominated city's public transport than was the case in any other city in New Zealand. In 1958 the council had only 25 diesel buses in service compared to 73 trolleys. In all other New Zealand cities the trolleys were outnumbered by diesels even at the very height of their respective systems.
The trolleybus had a particular appeal in Dunedin because some routes were extraordinarily steep, being in excess of 1 in 8, and the diesel alternatives of the day just could not offer anywhere near comparable performance. The need to face these considerable gradients led to some of the most remarkable braking specification ever found in any New Zealand bus. Not only were they fitted with the full-air and rheostatic brakes usually found in trolleybuses, but they were also equipped with special coasting and runback brakes to prevent runaways on the hills and these were so designed as to be operative even under conditions of dewirement. As a further precaution battery manoeuvring capability was intentionally omitted so as to prevent the deliberate operation of the vehicles on gradients in the absence of line power.
A long weekend of trail work, riding, and talking about the Oregon Timber Trail. Capped off with a peaceful night on a raft.
A long weekend of trail work, riding, and talking about the Oregon Timber Trail. Capped off with a peaceful night on a raft.
A long weekend of trail work, riding, and talking about the Oregon Timber Trail. Capped off with a peaceful night on a raft.
So much bro-dawggery at Lake Cushman anytime the weather's hot, you'd think there was a large academically unselective state college nearby with a bustling Greek system, but no. At least they bagged their empties before drunk-driving back to Bremerton.
This is not more than a few yards from the NO ALCOHOL sign.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue joined Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to sign a Shared Stewardship agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the State of Georgia. The agreement was signed at a ceremony at the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources on November 23, 2019 in Athens, Ga. Photo’s courtesy of the Dorothy Kozlowski University of Georgia used with permission.
A long weekend of trail work, riding, and talking about the Oregon Timber Trail. Capped off with a peaceful night on a raft.
Project: Design a mailer (final folded size is 6x6) to mail to promote our annual stewardship campaign. A small pledge card will also be included. The center top panel will be white and have mailing information on it.
Direction: Follow the theme of thanksgiving and include some sort of visual concerning our mission dollars.
I haven't been able to get much constructive feedback on this project, so any help would be really appreciated!
People in British Columbia are invited to share their thoughts on grizzly bear stewardship and commercial bear viewing, as the Province develops strategies to strengthen environmental stewardship and biodiversity.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023FOR0043-001121
This is a concept poster for a Stewardship mini-campaign. I was doing some thinking and realized that with our attendance, and our average weekly budget shortfall, the cost per person to meet the weekly goal (with a a good amount of wiggle room) is around $5. I'm no copywriter, but what do you think of this? I'm quite proud of the coffee cup, I built it in Illustrator using this as a guide: djh.deviantart.com/art/Coffee-Cup-AI-143111154
The church logo is also new, just trying it on for size. What are your thoughts?
Note: the corkboard is just there to show you what the printed page will look like. The white-on-white of flickr wasn't doing it justice.
The Missouri Pine-Oak Woodland Restoration Project in the Mark Twain National Forest. Photo of restoration thinning with understory removal at the Cane Ridge Stewardship Agreement, Essaman Springs Thinning Units in 2012. (Forest Service photo by Michael Stevens)
Imagine a law that encourages the Federal government to partner with local businesses? A law that would create a partnership to do things such as restoring our forests, improving fish and wildlife habitat, removing noxious weeds, and creating healthy rivers. On top of these benefits to the environment, this law also improves the economies of rural communities. Sound too good to be true? Think again.
With the adoption of stewardship contracting authority (public law 108-7) in 2003, BLM has been able to offset forest product values against service costs, select “best value” contracts and award 10-year agreements with communities. Stewardship contracts may be used to improve, maintain or restore forests, rangelands, water quality and habitat. They can also be used to reduce hazardous fuels that pose risks. Since its inception, BLM has issued over 170 awards, covering over 51,000 acres.
Simply said, these contracts are a legal agreement to be “stewards” on Federally-managed lands. In real life this translates to a variety of projects from removing encroaching juniper trees and grinding them up to be used in a variety of ways, to restore native grasslands by cutting small confiers and selling them as Christmas trees, to thinning stands to increase forest health.
In the Lakeview District, stewardship contracting has allowed for maximum biomass utilization of forest and woodland products. Trees cut from the projects have been used for fuelwood, “hogfuel” chips burned to make renewable electricity, clean chips that are ground up and used to make hardboard and an array of juniper products like post and poles. Thousands of tons of BLM-sourced juniper has supplied the local Juniper Mill at REACH in Klamath Falls thanks to the Gerber Stewardship Contract. This contract has allowed for over 6,000 acres of forests and woodlands to be restored through treatments under this project. This unique mill is a non-profit organization that specializes creative utilization of juniper, finding uses for nearly all parts of the tree. On top of that, the REACH mill is an active participant in vocational-rehabilitation programs that focus on employing individuals with disabilities.
Thanks to the Gerber Stewardship, juniper byproducts that would have been previously burned can be used to foster community partnerships and stimulate the local economy.
The Medford District is also creatively implementing stewardship contracts to restore and maintain healthy ecosystems. Last year, the district awarded the Landing Pile Biomass Utilization Contract, an interagency contract in support of the Southwest Oregon Interagency biomass strategy. This contract allows landing piles from the BLM’s Medford District to be used locally rather than being burned.
As a result, the contract reduces open burning, improves air quality,and also stimulates local woody biomass markets—a good deal for everyone involved.
Stewardship contracting provides the BLM with the authority to implement landscape scale treatments that meet local and community needs. These contracts can include such activities as hazardous fuels reduction, fish and wildlife habitat improvements, forest health treatments, removal of noxious weeds, and stream restoration, to name a few.
As a result, stewardship projects make our public lands more resilient to natural disturbances, like wildfires and climate change.
The process is a unique one for several reasons, some of which include: First, the process requires collaboration. The collaborative process fosters community partnerships and stimulates local economies; particularly those whose economies depend on resources from nearby federal lands – such as timber or forage.
Second, contracts solicited under the stewardship authority are awarded on “best value,” allowing the BLM to thoroughly evaluate contractors’ proposals, and award contracts based on factors other than price or revenue generation. Conversely, a timber sale contract is always awarded to the highest bidder. Stewardship contracting allows BLM and communities to define other contracting attributes they also value.
And third, the stewardship authority allows BLM to exchange goods for services within a single contract. This means that BLM can essentially “trade” the cost of services received for the value of the treatment’s byproduct. All of these factors help increase efficiencies, which is good business for both the BLM and the contractors.