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The European Tree Frog is a widespread species with an unfavourable-inadequate conservation
status in the majority of its EU range. Populations in the Netherlands and Belgium, amongst other countries, are
increasing. The species prefers a mosaic of habitats in landscapes including habitats of early successional stages,
such as recently created waters. The species is quite sensitive to changes in habitat, including loss and
fragmentation of forests, shrublands and meadows (with the isolation of populations) and the drainage and
pollution of wetlands; and the presence of predatory fish species. The most important measures in the
Netherlands and Belgium which contributed to the strong increase of the species are the development of
connected, large, high quality habitats which facilitate meta-population structures in the landscape. Moreover,
an active role of private landowners and the contributions of the project to the local economy and education
proved to be essential for a successful implementation of the conservation measures, resulting in long-term
involvement of the private and public partners and persistent socio-economic benefits. Factors hampering the
conservation of the tree frog are a lack of sufficient funding, and a loss of high-quality habitat due to house- and
roadbuilding, which is often compensated with lower quality habitat. As a pioneer species it can settle relatively
quickly in high quality habitat, but high connectivity between habitats, monitoring and long-term conservation
measures are essential for a sustainable population in the future.
66041 threads through the Avon valley, east of Bath, while working 6A83, the 1326 Avonmouth to West Drayton, conveying 1700 tonnes of imported Irish gritstone for use by the roadbuilding industry in the south east of England.
Above the train is Claverton Down, with The Bath University campus out of sight behind the hillside.
The houseboats are located on the Kennett and Avon canal, which follows the railway between Bath and Bradford Junction, before rejoining the line at Savanake to continue east past Crofton to Reading.
My last uploaded picture on Flickr (flic.kr/p/G1kgfZ) was taken just above the rear of this train, a mere 26 years before! From this view it almost looks like my 1992 view was still available!
Caterpillar D6R XW Crawler Tractor working at the The Bucket Shop expansion off of St Jean Avenue in Mountjoy Township located in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
Tiger Leaping Gorge is the deepest gorge on earth, formed by the ridges of two 5,000m peaks the Yulong and Haba Snow Mountains and the Jinsha River, a large tributary of the Yangtze River.
It gets its name from the story of a tiger cornered by a hunter. It managed leaps of 10m across the river using the above rock which is still there.
Recently the gorge was saved after the Chinese abandoned (for now) a plan to dam the river. Instead they make heaps of money by charging tourists to visit the place. The choice is stark: lose the beauty under a series of dams or else risk ruining it with extra roads and endless guest houses with accompanying ugly litter. At least this way it is still there to see and so are the ethnic Naxi people who can enjoy supplementing their meager living with tourism.
Hiking along the gorge is said to be in the top ten 'hikes to do before you die', about 20 miles there and back, or just there and a bus back. Sadly we decided it wasn't safe to do it with four small children who could easily fall down a precipice. So near and yet so far, maybe I will be able to go again one day, plenty of shacks with B&Bs and food to stay in along the way, and the most beautiful scenery. There is an upper road from which you can enjoy the views, and a lower road nearer to the river, which they are improving all the time (see above) but which is subject to landslides etc in the rainy season.
When we went the river was relatively quiet and low, come rainy season and it would have more of a roar to it.
Exa IIb, Kodak Tri-X developed in Unitol, negative scan, digital development in Lightroom.
A walk around Durham in October 1965. The Cathedral rises high above the demolition work preparing for the construction of the new roundabout which will lead to the New Elvet Bridge. Notice the telegraph pole, in the centre of a city(!) Taken from near the foot of Claypath, perhaps 100m from the Market Place.
Since their untimely exit from Rodinia, the remaining holdouts from the nation formerly known as Zuritania have settled in to their new home in Antarctica, known to the handful of native peoples as Shambhala and named Neuschwabenland by G*rmanic explorers. As the population of the continent grows exponentially with Rodinian refugees, a network of fishing villages, scientific stations, and military installations is developing. But neither the coastal tundras, treeless and frozen in permafrost, nor the vast polar icecap, riddled with crevasses, are suited to roadbuilding or regular travel. Bush pilots and fishing trawlers handle some of the civilian travel, but for long-term sustained growth the continent will need to build modern road networks, or at least snow-free paths. The AET-6000 is a stepping-stone to a more interconnected future for the people of the South Pole.
It's a nuclear-powered exile RV. What more do you want? There's some cutaways and technical details on the next photo. The vibes here are heavily inspired by Finn Roberts' Hibernia Mining Truck, go check him out.
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Olga the steamroller (J. A. Maffei & Jacob, Leipzig) was brought to Kythera in the 1930s and was used for roadbuilding right up to the 70s.
QJ 6112 runs light engine towards Huan He junction on the line from Fushun. In the background one of the early manifestations of China's massive roadbuilding programme takes shape.
6880 Surface Explorer (1982), a multi-purpose vehicle with serious traction. The dual-facing steering wheels are reminiscent of roadbuilding equipment.
They are building a new road near where I live and tonight I went for a mooch to see how they were getting on. The new footbridge over the brook has become one that can accommodate vehicles. At least it had a rainbow watching over it.
A stitch of two images in Photoshop.
If you look carefully, you will see a caterpillar in the center of the landscape, which is contracted by Yukon Forest Management to plow fuel wood access roads into this area, mostly to appease commercial woodcutters. That these roads are plowed in, decades after the 1998 wildfire, in a landscape that only recently has shown re-growth, is regrettable, and mismanagement in my opinion. I'm not against harvesting trees, but you don't do it in a manner that leaves ugly visible destruction along the major highway that tourists travel for its natural beauty. I find this grand roadbuilding by the government especially ironic, since there is so much hatred by environmental groups against the minimal impact of off-road ATV users and the trails they may cause, but no protest from these phony groups here.
John Deere 772GP Motor Grader on display at Nortrax John Deere on Riverside Drive Mountjoy Township in the City of Timmins Northeastern Ontario Canada
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If it were up to me, I would be chasing a train over the Iowa Northern on a perfect morning such as this. But there was no southbound train this morning, and that may have turned out for the best. Without frantically racing to the next intercept I was able to more carefully seek out photogenic vistas both RR and non-RR. This graceful concrete arch bridge carries Cerro Gordo County B20 and S62 (aka River St) across the Shell Rock River. The center of tiny Rock Falls (pop 150) is seen across the bridge, the Rock Falls Lounge and the town name painted on an old gas station sign in front of a hair salon. October 18, 2024.
Parc national des Cévennes, Lozere, France
Family : Acrididae
Subfamily : Oedipodinae
Species : Oedipoda caerulescens
This grasshopper is very variable in terms of colouration as it has the ability to adapt to the colours of its surroundings. As it is found in dry areas of sparse vegetation and areas of human disturbance these colours range from grey through yellow to red. The individual above has developed with the colours that you can see in the background from spoil heaps of roadbuilding materials. The most striking characteristic of this species however can only be seen when the insect is in flight. The hindwings are a beautiful turquoise blue with a marginal black stripe. This is what first caught my attention as when on the ground they blend in perfectly with their surroundings and are almost invisible.
It is a medium sized grasshopper with females being 22-28mm in length and the males being somewhat smaller at 15-21mm. Eggs are laid on dry bare soil and their diet consists mainly of herbs and different grasses. They have also been observed eating carrion like crushed insects and it is thought that this protein and mineral-rich food promotes egg development.
All my insect pics are single, handheld shots of live insects.
Every visitor to Ladakh comes away with an awe of the roads in Ladakh.. I for one was blown away the first time I visited there.. marveling at the kind of men required to build roads in such inhospitable terrain..Most of the road gangs were workers from Bihar who are more used to the heat of the terai plains then to the icy locales of Jammu & Kashmir..
Till 1960, Leh was connected with Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh by mule tracks only. The first jeepable road to Leh from Srinagar was thrown open to traffic on August 1, 1960. In order to construct and develop the road network in Ladakh, BRO (Border Road Organization) was inducted.
Project Himank was raised exclusively for development of road communication and other works of BRO in Ladakh region, in December 1985. The need for creating a separate Border Roads project exclusively for Ladakh arose owing to increased work-load in the region. The quantum of work and long distances from road-head and inhospitable terrain was just another roadblock to be overcome
Project Himank, with its HQ at Leh, was given the task of creating and maintaining roads and airfields in the most inhospitable terrain in the world, where most of its roads are above 10000 to 18000 feet in height. In such altitudes, the efficiency of men and machine is adversely affected due to lack of oxygen in the rarefied air and extreme cold conditions created as a result of high altitude and icy high velocity winds. The long harsh winter of seven to eight months permits a working season of only five months from June to October. The summer temperature rarely exceeds 32 degree centigrade and winter temperatures plummets to minus 30 degree centigrade with the temperature at Drass falling to minus 50 degree centigrade; thus earning for it the distinction of being “the second coldest inhabited place in the world”.
In such adverse working conditions and hardly a working season to write home about,
Project Himank is unique by itself as all the roads of the Project are located in high altitude areas. The Project boasts of the highest motorable road in the world at Khardungla at a height of 18380 feet.
One of the most challenging and demanding tasks of the Project is snow clearance. There are nine major passes in the jurisdiction of the Project.
These are
the notorious Zoji La (11578 feet) (Where in 1948 in what is now known as "Project Bison" saw Indian Army Tanks managing to cross the pass on a trail built by the Indian Sappers in nearly impossible conditions and this action saved the Ladakh Region from the encroaching Pakistani Army Units .) ,
Namika La (12200 feet),
Fotu La (13497 feet),
Hamboting La (13620 feet),
Khardung La (18380 feet),
Chang La (17356 feet),
Kajukongta La (16626 feet),
Taglang La (17582 feet),
Lachalung La (16616 feet) and
Wari La (17300 feet).
Next stop was Parkman, Wyoming, the top of Parkman Hill. I was glad to see the old overpass still in place and took a few photos of this classic. The Big Horn mountain range looms above the grassy foothills. September 8, 2023.
Tree by the side of the Worcester bypass which has survived roadbuilding and the building of a new office.
Need to return when the wind is not so high :)
wakefield, massachusetts
november 1959
cars navigating around road-paving crew on water street
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The British Liberal newspaper, the News Chronicle was originally formed from a merger of the Daily News and the Daily Chronicle in 1930 and was financially backed by the Cadbury family. It was to be taken over by the right wing Daily Mail in 1960 after sales suffered due to an anti-Suez view held editorially by the paper.
However, the paper is likely best recalled by people of a certain age, such as me, for the long running "I-Spy Club" where you could fill in details of 'spots' in a series of booklets such as this and send when completed to Big Chief I-Spy at the News Chronicle Wigwam for your Certificate of Merit. You could also join the club and get a badge amonst other things. The booklets covered a wide range of everyday sights from nature, to institutions, to industrial activities.
Yes, I was a member and looking back I thing it helped foster an inquistiveness in me that actually helped me end up in the career I did! It allowed me to ask questions, and study, and find things out about the world around me and fo me, I-Spy Roadmaking, Road Transport, On A Train Journey, On the Road, In the Street and In London were simply fascinating!
This is the cover of the Roadmaking, full of diggers, bulldozers pnematic drills - even fitting reflective Cats-Eyes! It is credited to artist or designer "Ovenden" and shows a small bulldozer known as a Calfdozer!
From a fascinating book written by James Drake who was during the 1950s & 60s was Lancashire County Council's County Surveyor & Bridgemaster. In this post he was one of the pioneers of motorway construction in the UK following the various pre- and post-WW2 plans for the new national network of segregated motor traffic roads.
This plate shows the then very modern and indeed futuristic Forton Service Station on the M6 near Lancaster. One fo the first service stations in the UK, echoing the late development of such 'special roads' here, it was designed by architects T P Bennett and opened in 1965. The site is dominated by this amazing tower and it is now a Listed Building.
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The eastern point of highway 407 in Greenwood Ontario 2015.The 407 merges with 7 to the right,and the future highway can be seen behind what is now the highway 7 overpass.
As world leaders meet for COP28 (30th November to 12th December 2023), its time to take URGENT action against climate change to safeguard the planet for nature, wildlife, the natural environment and future generations.
**Image: An Avanti West Coast Class 390 (390121) in the climate change livery heads north from London Euston to Glasgow Central on the West Coast Mainline through Little Strickland at teatime on the 17/7/23)**
One of a series of propoganda booklets issued by the British Roads Campaign Council, an offshoot of the British Road Federation and arguing the case for investment in and development of Britain's creaking road system. This volume covers three major English cities and discusses the contemporary road and traffic conditions and possible changes. Some of the proposals would see the light of the day in 1960s and '70s with inner ring roads, relief roads and motorways being created, especially in Newcastle with, as we now know, mixed results.
Unusually the booklet credits an author, designer and printer: Godfrey Harrison, John Denison-Hunt FSIA and Clowes of London & Beccles.
The Roads Campaign Council, an umbrella group that comprised a wide range of parties interested in road transport, was backed by the British Road Federation and seems to have been active in the post-war years as road transport began to grow and investment in roads was seen as being tardy. The 1950s saw the serious development of schemes for major routes such as motorways and ambitious plans for new roads as part of urban redevelopments and these would, of course, be brought to fruition in the 1960s onwards.
The Campaign seem to have issued a series of publciity or propaganda booklets and this is called "Roads Matter - Scotland" and this makes you wonder if other regional booklets in the dame format were issued? I have similar booklets issued by them for specific groups of English towns. The twenty page booklet has text and a series of images showing congestion in urban areas, such as Glasgow, Stirling and Dunfermline as well as 'dangerous roads' such as the A74 Anglo-Scottish trunk road and the A77, the route from Glasgow into Ayrshire.
The photos are of good quality and show street and roadscapes now lost along with many contemporary vehicles and period features that prove to make for fascinating research! I've scanned and posted a selection. The book credits a designer - John Denison-Hunt FSIA - and although not dated appears to be 1957.
The upper image shows the A96 Inverness to Aberdeen main road negotiating a sharp bend under the railway at Huntly with two trucks passing. Although the A96 now does bypass the town here the railway and bridge still survive as a public road at this point. The lower image shows one of the two bridges over the Cart rivers between Renfrew and Inchinnan, this being the lift bridge over the White Cart Water. The photographer stands with their back to the second crossing, the ancient stone bridge over the Black Cart Water that is, I think as I write, being replaced with a new structure. The main A8 is now bypassed here by the M8 to the south just the otherside of Glasgow Airport whose runways extent almost to this point.