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Rosendale Intermediate School received a Teachers Outdoor Environmental Education Fund grant in 2017 to take their 6th grade students on an overnight trip to Central Wisconsin Environmental Station. Photo: Mark Madigan
on the Alpine Club Intermediate Snowcraft course for 2021 held on Ruapehu, staying in the club's Delta Ridge hut
Sessile oak is a deciduous broadleaf tree native to the UK and most of Europe. Native to the British Isles and to much of western, central and eastern Europe. In Britain it tends to have a more westerly and upland distribution than pedunculate oak but the natural distribution has been much influenced by plantations in previous centuries. Sessile oak can grow up to 20-40m tall. As oaks mature they form a broad and spreading crown with sturdy branches beneath. The leaves are lobed with long leaf stalk. The leaf lobes are shallow. Their open canopy enables light to penetrate through to the woodland floor, allowing bluebells and primroses to grow below, and their smooth and silvery brown bark becomes rugged and deeply fissured with age. The sessile oak is so-named because, unlike the English, or pedunculate oak, its acorns are not carried on stalks (peduncles) but directly on the outer twigs (sessile). It is monoecious, meaning male and female flowers are found on the same tree. Male flowers are green catkins and female flowers are inconspicuous clusters of bracts (modified leaves), which resemble red flower buds. After pollination by wind, female flowers develop into a shiny seed held in a scaly wooden cup, commonly known as an acorn. Young acorns are green, maturing to brown before they fall. Sessile oak is cold hardy and generally windfirm, but can be damaged by late spring frosts. A species of intermediate shade tolerance which can grow well on mineral soils of poor or medium nutrient status. Will tolerate slightly drier soils than pedunculate oak and is not suited to compacted or wet soils. Whether sessile or pedunculate, oak trees support more wildlife than any other native trees. They provide a habitat for more than 280 species of insect, which provides food for birds and other predators. The bark also provides a habitat for mosses, lichens and liverworts, and deadwood cavities for nesting birds and roosting bats. The acorns are eaten by a number of birds and mammals including the jay, badger and red squirrel. What was considered to be the oldest oak tree in the UK was a sessile oak, the Pontfadog Oak. This grew near Chirk in North Wales. It was understood to be over 1,200 years old, an age that was due to regular pollarding for much of its life. The hollow trunk had a girth of 12.9 metres (42 ft 5 in). It was lost in April 2013 when it blew down in high winds. The greyish bark of the Sessile Oak was used in the tanning industry which produced leather. ===Information sourced from=== ift.tt/QX8x0c ift.tt/1XtubPi... ift.tt/2rAiJt4... ift.tt/2p0lC15... ===Scientific classification=== Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Rosids Order: Fagales Family: Fagaceae Genus: Quercus Section: Quercus Species: Q. petraea Binomial name Quercus petraea
A79, A73. Intermediate noses : CLOSE-UP.
9005 Tocumwal, to run via Echuca.
Castlemaine.
13.3.2011
What is especially interesting to note in this comparison view, is the odd shape of the No.1 nose-to-windscreen merge.
Back in the 60's, B's 60 & 79 came to grief in a head on collision at Speed, on the Mildura line.
The subsequent rebuild of 79 was at best described as a 'butcher job'.
Very little about that nose looked 'right' for the rest of its career, until sent for rebuild into A79.
At this time, Clyde Engineering, Rosewater, Adelaide, actually spent a LOT of time & effort to repair that previous Newport Workshops botch job.
However, the angle of the central windscreen pillar has never been right, showing a distinctly more forward angled appearance to standard.
Intermediate Woodfern prefers moist, shady sites but will tolerate dryish conditions on a short term basis. This fern does not spread. Plant in an area protected from strong winds that may damage the fronds. It is also called Evergreen Woodfern because it is semi-evergreen, even here in southern New Hampshire.
It is native to moist wooded areas, ravines, swamp edges and rocky slopes of Eastern North America.