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The present day landscape of Eastside of Lake Winnipeg started evolving some 10,000 years ago after the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciers. This region of Manitoba's boreal forest is covered by a blanket of coniferous and deciduous trees, ponds, bogs, tumbling rivers, laced
together by a multitude of lakes, eventually draining into Lake Winnipeg - the sixth largest freshwater body in North America and the last remaining remnants of 11,000 year old glacial Lake Agassiz. The vast, relatively undisturbed expanse of boreal forest provides one of the
last remaining large intact habitats for the Atikaki-Berens and Owl-Flinstone herds of threatened woodland caribou in Manitoba. They share the forests with other wildlife typical of the boreal forest: beaver, river otters, marten, lynx, moose, wolves, black bears, and wolveri
IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2018 Third Plenary Session: Shaping Asia's Evolving Security Order
Speeches by General Ngo Xuan Lich, Minister of National Defence, Vietnam; General (Retd) Ryamizard Ryacudu, Minister of Defense, Indonesia; Marise Payne, Minister for Defence, Australia; followed by Question and Answer session.
"Another necessary ingredient for terrace growth is the mineral calcium carbonate. Thick layers of sedimentary limestone, deposited millions of years ago by vast seas, lie beneath the Mammoth area. As ground water seeps slowly downward and laterally, it comes in contact with hot gases charged with carbon dioxide rising from the magma chamber. Some carbon dioxide is readily dissolved in the hot water to form a weak carbonic acid solution. This hot, acidic solution dissolves great quantities of limestone as it works up through the rock layers to the surface hot springs. Once exposed to the open air, some of the carbon dioxide escapes from solution. As this happens, limestone can no longer remain in solution. A solid mineral reforms and is deposited as the travertine that forms the terraces." -- mms.nps.gov/yell/features/mammothtour/index.htm
So let's evolve these lengths of tubular PVC, over-priced tarps, and thick coils of gooey duct tape into something resembling shelter.
Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord, 1815) - black-tailed prairie dog in South Dakota, USA (August 2010).
Mammals are the dominant group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today. The group is defined based on a combination of features: endothermic (= warm-blooded), air-breathing, body hair, mother's milk, four-chambered heart, large brain-to-body mass ratio, two teeth generations, differentiated dentition, and a single lower jawbone. Almost all modern mammals have live birth - exceptions are the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, both of which lay eggs.
Mammals first appear in the Triassic fossil record - they evolved from the therapsids (mammal-like reptiles). Mammals were mostly small and a minor component of terrestrial ecosystems during the Mesozoic. After the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction at 65 million years ago, the mammals underwent a significant adaptive radiation - most modern mammal groups first appeared during this radiation in the early Cenozoic (Paleocene and Eocene).
Three groups of mammals exist in the Holocene - placentals, marsupials, and monotremes. Other groups, now extinct, were present during the Mesozoic.
The black-tailed prairie dog is native to America's Great Plains and small portions of adjacent Canada and Mexico.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Rodentia, Sciuridae
Locality: Wind Cave National Park, southern Black Hills, southwestern South Dakota, USA
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catchesthelight catching the light on way home from Maine - a bigger sky from moving car on ME turnpike!
The cornerstone laid on November 4, 1886 evolved into this magnificent Chateauesque structure. Cleveland architect Levi T. Scofield designed the Ohio State Reformatory using a combination of three architectural styles; Victorian Gothic, Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne. This was done to encourage inmates back to a "rebirth" of their spiritual lives. The architecture itself inspired them to turn away from their sinful lifestyle, and toward repentance
The Reformatory doors were opened to its first 150 young offenders in September 1896. After housing over 155,000 men in its lifetime, the doors to the prison closed December 31, 1990.
Today the Ohio State Reformatory Historic Site receives visitors from all over the world. Every year tourists, movie buffs, thrill seekers and paranormal investigators walk through the halls of this majestic structure.
"Fear can hold you prisoner.
Hope can set you free."
- Shawshank Redemption