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The Disney Wildlerness Perserve, owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy, protects more than 12,000 acres of valuable upland and wetland habitat in the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, at the headwaters to the Everglades. Disney Wilderness Preserve is a central component to the new Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge which the Nature Conservancy is helping create in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Learn more at: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/florida/pr... and www.fws.gov/southeast/greatereverglades/. Photograph by Carlton Ward Jr / Carlton Ward Photography / www.CarltonWard.com
Love being lost in the woods. Being surrounded by nature, alone with only your own lifelong skill set to get you by = total euphoria
taken at Huber Woods Park, Middletown, NJ
Canon 5D Mark III and Canon 16-35mm USM II 2.8 L. Triple stack HDR processed with Photomatix 4.2 HDR software and ACDSee Pro 5
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L to R: Paul Hansen, Stephanie Hansen, Lindsay Schmidt, NRCS district conservationist in Dillon, and Eric Hansen talk about the improvements made to their property to better utilize their grazing land and improve habitat for sage grouse and other wildlife. Beaverhead County, Montana. June 2017.
Situated along the Palomar mountain range of Southern California, is Agua Tibia Wilderness. I came here to photograph the native wildlife and learn as much about their shrinking habitat as possible. Minutes from Temecula, this wilderness provides critical refuge for many of the area's native plants and animals; including the Horned Lizard.
This trailhead starts at the end of Dripping Springs campground, just past a creekbed. You pass through a grove of Oak trees before an expanse of chaparral dominated by Red Shanks. During Summer these plants burst with white flowers. This can be a strenuous hike, especially if you go during Summer, so make sure to bring plenty of water. An adventure pass ($5) is required to park at the campgrounds.
L to R: Paul Hansen, Stephanie Hansen, Lindsay Schmidt, NRCS district conservationist in Dillon, and Eric Hansen talk about the improvements made to their property to better utilize their grazing land and improve habitat for sage grouse and other wildlife. Beaverhead County, Montana. June 2017.
Picnickers went swimming and participated in kayak relay races at the Pohnpei Picnic for the Planet at Nihco Marine Park.
© Serleen Aldis/TNC
Located on Sandy Point Island, Newfoundland and Labrador.
This photograph has been selected by the National Conservancy of Canada national office in Toronto out of 373 other images from across the country to be on the cover of their 2013 calendar. The NCC has acquired shoreline properties on this island from local owners to protect wildlife habitat.
To learn more about the great work that NCC does visit www.natureconservancy.ca
Picnickers went swimming and participated in kayak relay races at the Pohnpei Picnic for the Planet at Nihco Marine Park.
© Serleen Aldis/TNC
At the base of Mount Hekla, Iceland's most active volcano that erupts every ten years. Hekla had a visible affect on the atmosphere. By Nate Oxenfeld.
Hansen Family, Hansen Livestock Co., Medicine Lodge, Mont., from left to right: Paul, Jon, Jay Lynn, and sitting on the fence, Eric, and Stephanie, worked with (standing to the right) Jim Berkey, Nature Conservancy, and Lindsay Schmidt, NRCS district conservationist, Dillon, Mont., on a conservation plan for the ranch that includes an easement. Beaverhead County, Montana. June 2017.
In this side view of a mature Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia) flower, the red canopy on top is a set of 5 sepals, and the "umbrella" below is a set of 5 fused styles. The purpose of the styles is to receive the pollen so that the ovary can develop seeds. The pollen is deposited on the upper surface of the styles.
Inside the flower you can see the developing ovary. Around the top of the ovary are the circular scars of the anthers that have fallen off. The horizontal brown streak is where one of the 5 petals had been attached.
I presume that all of the red Sarracenia flowers I saw in the Green Swamp were Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea). I also saw pitchers for Sweet Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia rubra), but I don't recall seeing any in bloom.
Location: The Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina
Instead of heading west to the Rockies, we decided to check out Horseshoe Canyon Conservancy area for a little hike. Descending into the canyon, we did a tiny bit of elevation, and the landforms were wonderful. Recommended for an interesting short walk.
Speaker of the TN House Kent Williams (center) wants a "Forever Green Tennessee"!
(From left: Hugh Travis, Boy Scouts of America; Dan Brown, Tennessee Preservation Trust; Michelle Haynes, Land Trust for Tennessee; Speaker Williams; Kathleen Williams, TN Parks & Greenways Foundation; John Noel, TPGF;Gina Hancock, The Nature Conservancy; and Danny Sells, TN Assoc. of Conservation Districts)
Kingcup or Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) and Polypody (Polypodium vulgare). Both the common polypody fern and the rare kingcup are protected species developing in the Wolf Holes’ bog by the lakeside in partial shade. There are about 10,000 fern species (Polypodiopsida cronquist) throughout the world at the present time. The kingcup is probably one of the most glacial plants known not only in Poland. Osladin found in the polypody roots is believed to be the substance responsible for the extremely sweet taste.
A photo from my archives, taken on 4 March 2010, at the Calgary Zoo. The Swift Fox is about 12 inches (30 cm) in height, and 31 inches (79 cm) long, measuring from the head to the tip of the tail, or about the size of a domestic cat. It ranges in weight from around five to seven pounds.
"Captive breeding of swift foxes began in 1973 through a privately run program. In 1978, the species was officially designated as "extirpated" in Canada by COSEWIC, and a national recovery plan was approved in 1995 to reintroduce swift foxes and create a self-sustaining Canadian population. The species is now (August 20th, 2003) listed as "endangered" by COSEWIC. Swift foxes were first officially released in Alberta in 1983. By 1996, 540 foxes had been released in the Alberta-Saskatchewan border and the Milk River Ridge areas, parts of the species' native range. Most animals released were bred in captivity; the remainder were wild-born animals imported from the United States. At present (August 20th 2003), it is estimated that there are approximately 96 swift foxes in Alberta, most of them the offspring of released foxes. The population is stable or increasing slightly, but the species remains extremely vulnerable because of its small numbers and limited distribution." From www.srd.gov.ab.ca/fishwildlife/escc/pdf/swift_fox.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_fox
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As part of a grazing management plan, stockwater tanks were added on the Hansen Livestock Co. ranch to allow for better livestock grazing distribution. Beaverhead County, Montana. June 2017.
Large Spreading Pogonia (Cleistesiopsis divaricata), also called Rosebud Orchid. I encountered this species of orchid in early June.
Location: The Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina
Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea), one of several species of Sarracenia found in the Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina. In this species there is no canopy or hood over the pitcher, leaving it open to the rain.
Picnickers went swimming and participated in kayak relay races at the Pohnpei Picnic for the Planet at Nihco Marine Park.
© Serleen Aldis/TNC
BIOL 527, introductory taxonomy class. Peach Tree Rock Preserve, Lexington County SC. It started out cold, but warmed up. Lots of plants!! (And yes, our class has a FLAG.)
The Hansen Livestock Co. near Medicine Lodge, Mont. is core sage grouse habitat area and the Hansens have worked with NRCS to improve their grazing system and habitat for wildlife. Lto R: Stephanie Hansen, Eric Hansen, Lindsay Schmidt, NRCS district conservationist, and Paul Hansen. Beaverhead County, Montana. June 2017.
Picnickers went swimming and participated in kayak relay races at the Pohnpei Picnic for the Planet at Nihco Marine Park.
© Serleen Aldis/TNC
While waiting for the moon to rise after sunset, I shot some test images to gauge exposure.
This 1 second exposure after sunset captured a Columbia black-tailed deer patiently contemplating a leap over the Historic Columbia River Highway at the top of the Rowena loops in the dark.
I had no idea the deer was in the frame. It was too dark. The previous frame 30 seconds earlier had no deer. I was standing in the Tom McCall Nature Preserve, a Nature Conservancy preserve.
Oregon Plan Award: The Nature Conservancy for the Willamette Confluence Project. A perennial upstream connection to the river was engineered and constructed to allow flow through backwater channels.
Spring Pond Bog is a Nature Conservancy property in the Adirondacks, accessible to the public with a permit, which can be applied for over the internet. It's a very large bog, and here a part of it is shown from the timbered trail, on a ridge, that leads to the bog itself. Shot with a Pentax K-5 and 18-55mm WR zoom.
Das ist das Naturschutz-Informationshaus "Schafstall" Fischbeker Heide von hinten gesehen.
Das Naturschutzgebiet Fischbeker Heide / The Fischbek Heath nature reserve is in S/W-Hamburg southerly of the Elbe river.