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FOGG DAM CONSERVATION RESERVE, MIDDLE POINT, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
The Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve is a protected area consisting of a wetland area approximately 70 km (43 mi) east of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It lies within the Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains, which is an Important Bird Area.
It attracts a wide range of local and migratory water birds and other wildlife, including a large population of agile wallabies and one of the largest populations of snakes within Australia (including the Water Python and Death Adder), and includes a several raised observation platforms.
Saltwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) and Freshwater Crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) can be seen at Fogg Dam all year around.
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve is only a 45-minute drive from Darwin. It is one of the most accessible places in the Northern Territory (NT) to experience spectacular wetlands and wildlife throughout the year.
The Chapel of Christ the Servant in Coventry Cathedral is essentially a free-standing clear glass cylinder at the ecclesiastical south-east of the building, connected only by a short passage. It thus makes an ideal room for display. This 15th Century stained glass was removed in 1939 with war looming and put into storage. It therefore represents one of the few surviving parts of the old Cathedral.
In 1992 one of Coventry’s then largest employers, the insurance giant, Axa Equity and Law, funded the conservation of three mosaic panels and three more seraph figures by Peter Gibson and the York Glaziers Trust. Initially the new panels were exhibited in display cabinets in the company’s own city centre offices but in 2002, following a change of ownership in the company, both the glass and the cabinets were transferred to their current location.
Just occasionally people tell me they don’t like Coventry Cathedral. I couldn’t disagree more; a powerful symbol of Resurrection, restored to a very different life barely twenty years after being destroyed in the Blitz on 14 November 1940. The Modernist Cathedral of St Michael of the 20th Century both surrounded by and incomprehensible without the ruins of 14th Century building that surrounds it.
Coventry Cathedral incarnates the twin and interconnected British revivals of the two decades after the end of the Second World War – a revival of high culture and a revival of Christian faith. Basil Spence’s cathedral housing Jacob Epstein’s sculptures, John Piper’s massive arrangements of stained glass into windows, and Graham Sutherland’s tapestry, still in 2021 the largest in the world, represent collectively a totemic achievement in modernist visual arts and architecture.
The brief for the competition to select the architect of the new Cathedral demanded that the design emphasise the celebration of the Eucharist; Spence himself had a further vision of the building as the repository of great modern works of art. He described his building as “a plain jewel casket”. Piper’s windows cast shafts of colour into the heart of the nave, while the plain glass West Screen, which faces to the geographical south, allows much natural light into the building, essential given that the east end is entirely filled with Graham Sutherland’s great tapestry, still the largest in the world at 22 metres tall by 12 metres wide.
Coventry Cathedral was built to a tight budget – “not more than £985,000” – and making much use of reinforced concrete, the new cathedral was constructed in just six years, between Queen Elizabeth II laying the foundation stone on 23 March 1956 and the dedication ceremony on 25 May 1962.
Could there have been a finer or more appropriate setting for the world première of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem on 30 May 1962? On that night, the Cathedral’s great post-War religious theme was also incarnated in the three soloists: Peter Pears (Britten’s partner) from the host nation, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau from Germany, Galina Vishnevskaya from the USSR, representing three belligerent nations. That tri-national partnership continues to be symbolised by the presence of a replica of the Stalingrad Madonna given by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, where the original hangs, with a second copy being in Kazan Cathedral in Volgograd.
A building that breathes with the presence of the Holy Spirit, giving new life the Church in every generation.
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, Middle Point, Northern Territory, Australia
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Early morning, Central Otago, New Zealand. French photographer Alexiane Le Gentil is on the right enjoying the light after 3 of us had camped nearby...the joy and power of nature...
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King Street, Hammersmith. Contained within the Conservation area 'notable buildings' with the following description:- "Nos. 150-152 is a three-storey roughcast render group of a symmetrical design with timber casement windows with small lights. The central projecting curved bay has an octagonal turret crowned with a deep cornice and modillions with a cupola above."
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, Greater London, England - King Street
May 2026
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Rockwood Conservation Area has a rich and unique geological aspect. A few specific features that are a part of the environment at the Rockwood conservation area include glacier bluffs, potholes, caves and some of the oldest dated trees in Ontario.
The cave system includes a series of 12 caves, which is one of the most extensive networks in Ontario. Within the caves is a prominent feature called flowstone, which over many years is created by flowing water that deposits a type of calcium carbonate called calcite.
Another feature at Rockwood are the potholes. Within the conservation area, there is over 200 potholes that all vary in measurements. These potholes are also known as giant's kettles, which are large cavities that have been drilled by flowing water carrying stones and gravel.
As well, glacial bluffs are seen at Rockwood. These have been formed over thousands of years after the earth’s most recent ice age ended. They can be relatively small and get as large as 30 meters deep and 200 meters wide.
One of the most dominant males who lords over a large territory on the outer fringes of Ranthambhore National Park
Photo Credit: John Newby, Sahara Conservation Fund
Before fitting the animals with GPS collars, the team had to make sure that all of the collars were functioning properly and transmitting data.
The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.
During the Pleistocene, massive runoff spilled from the Sierra Nevada into a chain of inland seas. The system of interconnected lakes stretched from Mono Lake to Death Valley and included Searles Lake. Deep beneath Searles Lake, calcium-rich groundwater and alkaline lake water combined to grow tufa formations. Similar (modern) formations can be found today at Mono Lake to the north. Known as tufa pinnacles, these strange shapes formed underwater 10,000 to 100,000 years ago. The pinnacles did not all form at the same time. They are divided by age and elevation into three groups. The groups are dubbed the northern, middle, and southern groups because they formed during three ice ages.
The northern group is the youngest at 11,000 to 25,000 years old. These are the best examples of what are known as tufa towers. The northern group also include shapes called tombstones, ridges and cones. The small middle group claims only 100 spires, but boasts the tallest "tower", rising 140 feet (43 m). The southern group, includes 200 tufa formations aged 32,000 to 100,000 years old.
The Pinnacles are recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies. Over thirty film projects a year are shot among the tufa pinnacles, including backdrops for car commercials and sci-fi movies and television series such as Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Disney's Dinosaur, The Gate II: Trespassers, Lost in Space, and Planet of the Apes. The music video for Lady Gaga's 2020 single "Stupid Love" was also filmed here.
Source: Wikipedia
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
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As pollinators, bees play a part in every aspect of the ecosystem. They support the growth of trees, flowers, and other plants, which serve as food and shelter for creatures large and small. Bees contribute to complex, interconnected ecosystems that allow a diverse number of different species to co-exist
" This photograph by Michael Nichols portrays Juju, who was caged alone for many years in Brazzaville Zoo and desperate for contact, reaching out to Dr. Jane Goodall".
Jane Goodall is perhaps one of the most well known conservationist, biologist, and animal behaviour researcher who not only pioneered in field research on animal behavior but also changed how we view animals especially great apes in the last 45 years. She started working in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in early 1960s. Her mother accompanied her in field when she went for the first time. It took her several months to habituate the chimp groups in Gombe and eventually she was able to conduct observations on Flo's family. Some of the important data on mother-infant relationship, family hierarchy in males and femles have come from the matraich Flo and her children. Flo was the dominant female in the group and F amily line continued to be dominant even now by Flo's grandchildren. I admire her mother to take her to the forest of Gombe to watch the Chimpanzees. She is one of the three women that Dr. Louise Leakey send out to collect data on Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Oranutans. In Gombe, researchers are still studying the chimp families that Jane had started observing 45 years ago.
For more information on her and Jane Goodall Institute please visit www.janegoodall.org
#mypubliclandsroadtrip explores the Black Rock Desert of Nevada this weekend!
The Black Rock-High Rock region of Northwestern Nevada includes the longest intact segments of the historic emigrant trails to California and Oregon in the western U.S. – including wagon ruts, historic inscriptions and a wilderness landscape largely unchanged since the days of the pioneers.
The Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area Act of 2000 protected about 120 miles of the emigrant trails, from Rye Patch Reservoir north through the vast Black Rock Desert and then the narrow gorge of High Rock Canyon. The Act also established the 800,000 acre national conservation area and the wilderness within the NCA.
Also within the NCA, the Black Rock Desert Playa covers the large dry lakebed of ancient Lake Lahontan. The playa has grown in popularity during the past decade as a place for recreation events that need a lot of room. The world land speed record was set here in 1997. Amateur rocketry clubs use the playa to set world altitude records. And the playa is the location of the annual Burning Man Festival, the largest Leave No Trace event in the country.
Photos and Burning Man timelapse by Bob Wick, BLM