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Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

Oregon native, Lewisia rediviva ("Bitteroot"), in the wild at The Nature Conservancy's Juniper Hills preserve.

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2016_4_26, kgronostajski@gmail.com, USA LBI NJ

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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.

Worker ants remove vegetation in circular areas or craters around nests. Colonies occur in open areas and usually have a single central opening. The area around the opening usually has small pebbles deposited on the soil surface by the worker ants. Often there is no vegetation within a 3- to 6-foot circle around the central opening of the colony, and along foraging trails radiating from the colony. Red harvester ant foragers collect seeds and dead insects and store them in the nests as food for the colony.

Coneflower Knob in Nov. 11/06

Bison crossing; US Mexico border; Nature Conservancy, Rancho Uno, Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico, Cindy Tolle, Tutuaca Mountain School

The Nature Conservancy has restored this magnificent pine flatwoods forest. It boasts a forest patch of Pitcher Plants, which are insectivores.

  

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

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.

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2016_4_26, kgronostajski@gmail.com, USA LBI NJ

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William B. Clark Conservation Area, a boardwalk through the cypress swamps of the Wolf River bottoms near Rossville, Tennessee.

An Eastern Kingbird scoping out the grassland at the Nature Conservancy's Equimon Preserve.

The corner of a very large fen complex that lies in a basin in the mountains above Ashland.

Nature Conservancy Bluestem Prairie Preserve (Moorhead, MN: Oct 20, 2014)

Found this plant all by myself

(c) 2009 Charles L. Smart.

 

Harsh mid-day light at The Meadows, Cape May, NJ. Looks dull. But from a different angle, the same individual reflects the light and ... (see the comment photo below)

This Nature Conservancy preserve is not open to the public, but protects an intact vernal pool/grassland ecosystem in an area otherwise mostly developed.

My friend, and now housemate, Brogan was visiting back in April. I'm happy that I was able to show her this awesome, if a little cold, western fence lizard.

Testing various lenses. This shot was taken with a Tamron 28-75mm 2.8 -- 28mm focal length. Settings were on automatic.

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.

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