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An elk bull, cow and calf (Cervus elephus nelsoni) running on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in NE Oregon. Winter 2002
...or soon will.
I got thirsty and realized I was hiking in the sandhills in summer with only one stupid Dasani bottle of water. So I took a chance.
Not bad.
Nice bouquet of cenozoic era with mellow hints of salamander and an aftertaste of giardia. Yum.
Edmonton and Area Land Trust
Nature Conservancy of Canada
www.natureconservancy.ca/en/where-we-work/alberta/feature...
Light bulbs in the kitchen at the Wenhai ecolodge. The ecolodge is a cooperative among Naxi villagers at Wenhai Lake and is also supported in part by the Nature Conservancy and a Japanese grant.
Edmonton and Area Land Trust
Nature Conservancy of Canada
www.natureconservancy.ca/en/where-we-work/alberta/feature...
The West Coast of North America has the ideal conditions for creating driftwood: onshore breezes, favorable ocean currents, substantial forests, high precipitation and large rivers. The precipitation allows for source material (trees) to grow in abundance. Once trees die or are washed into rivers, they are carried downstream to the salt water where currents and winds wash them back on shore. People in the Pacific Northwest take driftwood for granted. However, globally speaking, it is not a particularly common component of beaches.
Taken at the Robert Y. Pratt Preserve in Ebey's Landing National Historic Reserve.
Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.
Smith Creek, a designated trout stream flows past an old arbor vitae tree in hardwood forest on UPM/Blandin forest land in Itasca County, MInnesota.
Shot by Michael A. Mayo, in Clearwater Beach Fl., with a Nikon D5100 and VR DX AF-S Nikkor 55-300mm Zoom Lens.
While in Sand Key Park at the Fishing pier, I was lucky to get this shot of a pelican swooping in over my shoulder, past a few locals fishing. This shot is the second of three frames I was able to capture in that fleeting moment. The first shot as he swept past the fishermen, the last as he comes to a landing on the railing. Prior to this event unfolding, I used various manual and automatic settings. It so happened the camera was set to auto, and this was simply another point and shoot moment. No editing or cropping done here. Just quick framing and single shutter release. The camera did the rest.
Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.
Chrsyanthemum leucanthemum Kinda rolls off the tongue! Love the logaithmic spiral, too!
See more flowering and non-flowering plants in the Flora Set.
Plant life is diverse and presents interesting contrasts. On the wetter, shaded slopes is a montane forest, including ponderosa pine and small but thick stands of quaking aspens sheltered under a cliff beneath Mount Livermore. South-facing slopes are dominated by pinyon pine, gray oak, alligator juniper and mountain mahogany. Madrone trees dot the valleys and deep canyon streambeds. Eleven rare species of plant are known, including the Livermore sandwort, many-flowered unicorn plant and fringed paintbrush.
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Santa Fe Canyon Preserve - Upper Canon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico - USA
map with audio: www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/united...
Once the center of Santa Fe’s hydroelectric activity, Santa Fe Canyon Preserve is today a peaceful nature preserve brimming with wildflowers, willows, ponderosa pine, songbirds, deer and bears.
And beavers! Restoration efforts at the preserve have made the habitat enticing to these wood-gnawing critters. Beavers, along with their dams and lodges, are an increasingly common sight at this urban preserve. Conservancy scientists have also been working since 2012 to re-establish the northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens) at the preserve.
This 525 acres of open space, only a few miles from Santa Fe's bustling historic Plaza, offers a thriving bosque of cottonwood and willow trees, a pond, the ruins of an historic Victorian-era dam, hiking trails, more than 140 species of birds and the original route of the Santa Fe River. One of the last unspoiled riparian areas along the river, the preserve is nestled in the foothills adjacent to the Santa Fe National Forest. Once here you can see red-wing blackbirds, a beaver lodge, colorful wildflowers and remnants of the city's historic past.
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The view from McCall Point was AMAZING, plus there were wildflowers everywhere. It was spectacular. This is looking west to Mt. Hood. (The little vertical smudge of white below the base of the mountain was smoke from a fire, probably someone's backyard burn.)
Tom McCall Preserve near Hood River, Oregon
Maidenhair fern carpet the forest floor at vernal pool location in a mixed hardwood forest on UPM/Blandin forest land in Itasca County, Minnesota.