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The small, hardy sassafras tree grows in the preserve in abundance. The leaves when crushed release an aromatic scent and the roots can be brewed into a fragrant, invigorating tea that tastes like licorice.
Détail du portail; façade principale./ Front entrance. Photo:Cecilia Fuentes D'Alençon, 2010.
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.
Took my 11 month old son by the Nature Conservancy's Falls Ridge.
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A return to see Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.
Behold! A smaller version of the larger Peachtree Rock! You can take this one home and put it on your coffee table if you want!
Okay, maybe not. The unique, gravity-defying effects of the two rocks are similar but this one is different. Not much to see around this one. No glade, no waterfall, no doodle-pad poets.
Man, it's hot. And my giardia water is running pretty low. Time to kick it for the exit...
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.
Nature does not exist to dazzle us with it's beauty or to fascinate us in all of it's complexity. The earth itself has not been created to sustain us, heal us, delight us, or entertain us. Yet nature and the earth do all of these things. Is it too much to ask for us to show a little appreciation and effort at conservation?
Bee colony collapses
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Silence of the bees
William B. Clark Conservation Area, a boardwalk through the cypress swamps of the Wolf River bottoms near Rossville, Tennessee.
Bison crossing; US Mexico border; Nature Conservancy, Rancho Uno, Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico, Cindy Tolle, Tutuaca Mountain School
(from left to right) Jeremy Nesbold, Adam Hickl and Rob Page watch the movement of the prescribed fire in Fannin, Texas. The team, led by The Nature Conservacy, was working to burn out invasive brush in an effort to allow the native grasses to regrow to help preserve the prairies in Texas. As part of prescribed burns, they set the fire in a manner that allows the smoke to rise into the air rather than waft low where it could obscure roads or visibility nearby.
The native thistles were blooming and all kinds of insects were feeding furiously. This female Tiger Swallowtail was an almost perfect specimen
Fall colors at Ramsey Canyon Preserve, part of the Nature Conservancy. Taken outside the town of Sierra Vista, located in southern Arizona.