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2023–2024 Public Humanities Fellow Perri Meldon spoke to a public audience at the Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways Museum in Chesapeake, Virginia on January 30, 2025. Meldon presented her research on the cultural and environmental history of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Peter Hedlund/Virginia Humanities
Session 3: Community-conserved areas in the future management of biodiversity, land and water in the Mediterranean
Session 3: La conservation communautaire des espaces dans la gestion future de la biodiversité, du sol et de l’eau dans la région méditerranéenne
Ulcinj (Montenegro) - 28 October 2016
1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week “Building a regional network to conserve plants and cultural diversity”
1re Semaine de la conservation des plantes méditerranéennes “Construction d’un réseau régional pour la conservation de la diversité culturelle et végétale”
Photo by Pilar Valbuena for The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation.
More information on 1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week, please visit:
www.medplantsweek.uicnmed.org/
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: lourdes.lazaro@iucn.org
Vice Chairman of the Board Jerry Rucker keeps an eye on things. We’ve got a talented, active board at Huron Pines and appreciate their skillful leadership.
Photo credit: David Smith
Session 3: Community-conserved areas in the future management of biodiversity, land and water in the Mediterranean
Session 3: La conservation communautaire des espaces dans la gestion future de la biodiversité, du sol et de l’eau dans la région méditerranéenne
Ulcinj (Montenegro) - 28 October 2016
1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week “Building a regional network to conserve plants and cultural diversity”
1re Semaine de la conservation des plantes méditerranéennes “Construction d’un réseau régional pour la conservation de la diversité culturelle et végétale”
Photo by Pilar Valbuena for The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation.
More information on 1st Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week, please visit:
www.medplantsweek.uicnmed.org/
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: lourdes.lazaro@iucn.org
Tom and Joan Brown and their family donated a conservation easement on 1,124 acres of their Green River Ranch west of Daniel in 2006. "The majority of the ranch was originally homesteaded by the Pape and Albert families," said Tom. "My dad bought 85 acres from Ben and Pat Pearson in 1968 and acquired the remaining property in 1988. It's a special place and we wanted to ensure that it stayed that way forever." The easement conserves riparian corridors along the Green River and Forty Rod Creek, as well as sage uplands on the overlooking bluff. The property offers residents and visitors beautiful views from Wyoming State Highway 354 and the Daniel Fish Hatchery Road.
Peintes vers 1080-1120, les peintures romanes sont très bien conservées et extrêmement bien réali-sées. Bien que lacunaire, ce programme est riche de plusieurs thèmes iconographiques. Sur le mur est, une frise grecque avec effet de relief et différents oiseaux parcourt tout le baptistère. Entre les deux oculi, un Christ avec un nimbe crucifère se tient en majesté dans sa mandorle avec un livre ouvert où est inscrit EGO [SUM V] I [TA] : Je suis la vie (Jean, XIV, 6). Autour de lui, deux anges épousent parfaitement la forme des fenêtres, tous deux tournés vers les Apôtres désignant le Christ. Ceux-ci ne sont pas reconnaissables individuellement, hormis saint Pierre à la droite du Christ. Ils sont en mouvement et marchent sur des vagues représentants le monde sur lequel répandre la parole divine, avec au dessus d'eux une inscription en latin AS-CENDO AD PA-TREM [MEUM E] T PA-TREM [VES-TRVM, DEVM ET DEVM VES-TRVM]. VI[RI G]A[LIL] EI [QVIS S]TA[TIS AS-PI-CIENT] ES IN CELVM. HIC HIESVS QVI ASVMTVS EST A VOBIS : Je monte vers mon Père et votre Père, mon Dieu et votre Dieu. Galilée qui lève les yeux au ciel. C'est Jésus qui vous a été enlevé.
Sous le Christ la main de Dieu représentée dans un médaillon. Sur l’arc en plein cintre, un Agnus Dei et deux anges thuriféraires, avec sous cet arc des personnages non identifiables dans des médaillons. Enfin, sur le dernier registre du mur, deux cavaliers sont situés de part et d’autre, le premier complètement effacé dont ne reste que la tête du cheval. A droite, le cavalier Constantin tenant un sceptre et un orbe, et marchant dans la direction du Christ, est le seul des quatre dont l’identité nous soit parvenue. Sur cette partie du mur se superposent le cavalier roman et les dernières scènes du cycle de la vie de saint Jean-Baptiste, datant du XIIIe siècle.
Sur le mur Nord, de gauche à droite, se situent une figure profane, un paon sous chaque oculi et sous l’arc en mitre un saint anonyme, avec à droite du mur deux apôtres. Sur le mur Ouest, les peintures sont très endommagées, un paon est tou-jours visible bien que pâle, un vase ocre s'y distingue aussi (vase de vie ou pour utiliser le chrême en vue d'oindre les catéchumènes. Un deuxième paon devait se trouver à côté avec, plus bas, deux autres cavaliers dont l’un est complet, couronné et tenant un sceptre. Le quatrième et dernier cavalier est lui aussi endommagé, seul le haut de son corps étant visible tenant les rênes de son cheval.
Sur le mur Sud, deux apôtres, non complets avec sous l’oculus un paon et sous l’arc en mitre, saint Maurice d’Agaune, désigné ici par MAVRICIVS en habit de légionnaire, ses reliques étant conservées dans la cathédrale primitive. Sous le second oculus, un dragon fait face à un homme brandissant une épée, symbole du combat entre le bien et le mal. Entre ces deux figures, une inscription CIL CRIA MARCI ET VRNA : il demanda grâce et s’enfuit (plus vieille inscription connue en langue vernaculaire) (cf. fra.archinform.net).
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (March 23, 2016) – Against the backdrop of the Alabama River at the Union Station Train Shed, 300 conservation district supervisors, conservation partners, and students gathered to hear the Alabama Soil & Water Conservation Committee (SWCC) launch a new initiative to continue its mission of conserving Alabama’s natural resources: Conserve Alabama.
Visit conservealabama.gov to learn more about the campaign.
Dry Naturally
A simple way to conserve energy is to line dry your laundry. Not only will you save money on your electrical bill but your clothes will last longer!
(can you guess who's clothes those are in the photo?)
I think these came from the storage collection at Naples museum and were conserved with agreement at Oxford and now displayed to the public for the first time ever, at the Ashmolean
Founded in 1906, Mesa Verde National Park was created to conserve and protect the Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites and cliff dwellings within the present-day park on the sides and top of a large tree-covered cuesta, known as Mesa Verde, that rises approximately 1,500 feet (785 meters) above the surrounding canyons and valleys, with rugged canyons cutting through the cuesta, lined with sandstone cliffs and ledges.
The area was inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years prior to the rise of the Ancestral Puebloan culture, whom developed villages and farmsteads within what is today Mesa Verde National Park beginning around the year 750, with the structures built by the Ancestral Puebloans growing in complexity and durability, especially due to contact with the nearby culture centered around Chaco Canyon. The famous cliff dwellings for which the area is famous, however, were built between approximately 1020 and 1260, especially after a major drought in the region between 1130 and 1180, which led to a major migration of people from Chaco Canyon to Mesa Verde. The people of Chaco Canyon brought their culture, construction techniques, and goods with them, which is evident at archaeological sites on the cuesta.
The area began to depopulate between 1260 and 1285 due to environmental conditions becoming less favorable, with the people of Mesa Verde moving to the lowlands of what is today New Mexico and Arizona, with many founding or joining Pueblo settlements in these regions that still exist today. The stone houses were left to the elements, and were left uninhabited, only remembered by the descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans and the other indigenous groups who called the area home, most notably the Utes.
The ancient ruins were discovered by European-Americans in 1873, and were documented between 1875 and 1888, with various cliff dwellings and archaeological sites being relatively well-preserved and recognizable to explorers, archaeologists, and scientists whom visited the modern-day park. However, the removal of artifacts from the cuesta became a major concern, and efforts began in 1889 to protect the area as a National Park.
The park covers an area of 82 square miles (212 square kilometers), and features multiple Ancestral Puebloan and other indigenous archaeological sites, and was taken from the Ute people, with land being taken from the Utes after the establishment of the park to expand its borders. The park long struggled with proper interpretation and inclusion of the voices of the Puebloan people, whose ancestors built the ancient dwellings and lived at what are today archaeological sites, with work presently ongoing to redress these issues.
The ruins at the park underwent reconstitution and stabilization between 1908 and 1922, with extensive work being done on Spruce Tree House, Cliff Palace, and Sun Temple. Further work was carried out by the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps starting in 1932 and extending through World War II, which included the construction of various park facilities for visitors and staff, and constructing roads atop the cuesta. The Wetherill Mesa ruins, meanwhile, were stabilized with work being carried out between 1958 and 1965, coinciding with the construction of the Far View accommodations atop the cuesta to the east.
The park today features a modern entrance road from US Highway 160, which climbs up the rugged slopes at the north end of the park to the top of the cuesta, stretching across the top of the cuesta to the south, where it connects to various roads that allow visitors to access the overlooks and trails for various cliff dwellings and archaeological sites on Chapin Mesa and Wetherill Mesa. Two areas of tourist accommodation also exist at Far View in the northern section of the park, and the administrative district at Spruce Tree Point at the southern end of the park.
The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978. Today, the park sees over half a million visitors annually, and continues to preserve and maintain the ancient structures built by the Ancestral Puebloans.
In order to conserve on the number of prims used for infrastructure in the community, a massive re-paving project was undertaken in the past few weeks. A pleasant brick-like path way was chosen and Scalar Tardis developed a ribbon-like lamp post with an illuminated column to replace the hodge podge of lamps around the sim. The old black and blue Teleport to Town Hall posts were also removed and incorporated into a banner that teleports the user to Town Hall upon left-clicking. Together these efforts saved over 380 prims in the combined sims!
Residents may want to check their plots to see how the sidewalk now connects. Some minor discrepencies may need to be fixed, since megaprims are much less flexible and difficult to work with. Please contact Fleep Tuque or Rachel Corleone if you need minor terraforming or adjustments at your place!