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Chumash and archeological monitors observing work by the Los Angeles Conservation Corps and the National Park Service on Santa Cruz Island.
"What does Los Angeles’ inner city have in common with a rugged island off the southern California coast? A group of young people who are dedicated to making the world a better and greener place. Through an innovative partnership between the LA Conservation Corps and The Nature Conservancy, at-risk youth between the ages of 18 and 24 are helping to restore Santa Cruz Island, while gaining valuable green job training in these difficult economic times."
These pictures were taken over Labor Day weekend 2009 only 65 miles from Panama City Beach. Dog Island is small at 6.8 miles in length, accessible only by boat, ferry or airplane. The Nature Conservancy owns most of the island and there is only one hotel, the Pelican Inn
Several species of Drosera (Sundews) can be found in the Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina. This one appears to be Pink Sundew (Drosera capillaris). To the upper left is a Butterwort (Pinguicula sp.).
Mary Loquvam, Audobon L.A.; Claire Robinson, Amigos de los Rios; Charles Thomas, Outward Bound Advenutures
Found, Waterlow Park, London N19. Saturday 4 June 2011.
Can you identify this egg? I found it beside the pond in the 'wild' area. I wonder what predator feasted on this one? It's a Moorhen egg. Check this out for a brilliant photo of Moorhen eggs in a nest www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.overthegardenga...
We no longer collect eggs, I did as a child in rural Dorset in the 1950's though it was already becoming taboo (quite rightly).
Unfortunately it's not taboo for Crows to steel eggs to eat. I saw a wood pigeon put up a gallant but unsuccesful defence before retreating leaving the Crow free to hop on to it's nest and take off with an egg! One way to keep the pigeon population down I guess.
Enjoyed the stroll.
Richard, Sanjayan and Joseph glassing for wildlife during a break in paddling. July 29
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Note the senescent "spring leaves/pitchers."
This is a clump of the Alabama Canebrake Pitcher plant, Sarracenia rubra subspecies alabamensis, growing in the Roberta Case Pine Hills Preserve of The Nature Conservancy. The plant is found in only three counties in central Alabama, and is exceedingly rare in its natural habitat.
Click here for a description of the distribution and conservation status (out of date, but informative - 1990) of this species.
William B. Clark Conservation Area, a boardwalk through the cypress swamps of the Wolf River bottoms near Rossville, Tennessee.
Granite rock, which is brought in by barge, is methodically placed in the Piankatank River near Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County Virginia. The rock is the basis for the newest, 25-acre oyster reef in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is overseeing the more than $2 million sanctuary reef project in partnership with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Nature Conservancy. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
Took my 11 month old son by the Nature Conservancy's Falls Ridge.
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A dark yellow spider lurks within the flower of a Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia). At first glance, this looks like a complete flower, but in fact the petals have already fallen off. The 5 large red petal-like structures are actually sepals. Above the sepals are 3 small bracts, also colored red. The curved yellow structure on which the spider rests is part of the style, an extension of the ovary that receives the pollen.
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
After a while, even the Nature Conservancy staff joined us out in the sun. Apparently, we were the first group ever to leave the nursery tables for a seat in the sun. :-)
Ranger broke its metacarpals (basically its finger tips) at the end of one of its wings. The bones died after the break and cannot heal as a result. Not fully flighted, the owl can fly short distances. The Conservancy will be using the owl in education programs for elementary schoolers, summer campers and the general public. Check out this magnificent nature conservancy at www.hcconservancy.org
Attend one of their programs, walk the grounds, enjoy an educational experience and maybe volunteer.
Knobeloch Woods is a virgin white oak forest which is a rare thing now. It was land owned by my ancestors and years ago with the help of the Nature Conservancy, transferred to Illinois public property as a nature preserve to protect it in the future. Apparently it was very coveted by loggers and the story goes that even a bunch of Japanese businessmen came to try to buy it.
dnr.state.il.us/INPC/directory/Sitefiles/Area7/KNOST.htm
Knobeloch Woods Nature Preserve (Freeburg)
35 acres of dry upland and wet floodplain forest are open to the public with Illinois Nature Preserve restrictions.
Rentchler Road off Hwy 177 | Belleville/Freeburg, IL
Granite rock, which is brought in by barge, is methodically placed in the Piankatank River near Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County Virginia. The rock is the basis for the newest, 25-acre oyster reef in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is overseeing the more than $2 million sanctuary reef project in partnership with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Nature Conservancy. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
Tallgrass Prairie, Osage County, Oklahoma.
Taken in 1993 on 35mm Kodachrome 64 slide film.
This was taken on my first trip up into the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. The ranchers around there were still leasing grasslands to graze their cattle upon, but eventually most of the cattle would disappear and be replaced by a (now thriving) herd of buffalo.
Tamarack or Larch.
The word Tamarack comes from the Algonquin word akemantak, meaning “wood used for snowshoes.”
Edmonton and Area Land Trust
Nature Conservancy of Canada
www.natureconservancy.ca/en/where-we-work/alberta/feature...