Alaska, um mosaico de atrações/Alaska, ein Mosaik aus Attraktionen/Alaska, a mosaic of attractions
O Alaska é um estado integrante dos Estados Unidos da América. Ele possui paisagens deslumbrantes e atrai anualmente milhares de turistas. Sempre tivemos o sonho de realizar uma viagem ao Alaska. Escolhemos visitar o Alaska através de uma viagem de trem, quando visitamos o Parque Denali e de cruzeiro, o que tornou tudo muito fácil e confortável. Esse post apresenta de forma geral as principais…
Y'all look like you could use not one, not two, but THREE BEARS in your timeline on this fine Friday.
Make your weekend amazing.
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"Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos ssp.)" by Gregory 'Slobirdr' Smith is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
p o l i c i e s
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b a d s a m a r i t a n
The Best of You, Honey, Belongs to Me
Blackthorn
Cover Myself in the Ashes of You
Dumb Ways To Die
Enough of You to Dull the Pain (18+)
Hellbent Looking For A Godsend
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
I Got This Feeling On A Summer Day (18+)
I'm Gooey in the Middle Baby Let Me Bake
In His Eyes A Flaming Glow
Intrigued and Afraid
Keep You Like An Oath (18+)
Killing Me Softly
My Baby Shot Me Down (18+)
Not Much Between Despair and Ecstasy (18+)
Only Touch That Gets Me Melting (18+)
Run Rabbit Run (18+)
Say My Name
Send a Thousand Kings Away
Shia Surprise
Something Good to Celebrate
Stop, Look and Listen, It's Halloween!
Taste of a Poison Paradise
Trust in Me, Just in Me
With Your Scars and Your Lonely Heart
Your Body's a Secret Girl and You're About to Spill It (18+)
t h e b o y s
Watch That Butcher Burn
b r o a d c h u r c h
Always Leave Me With a Hungry Heart
Am I Doing This Right?
An Art to Life's Distractions
Beating Like A Kick Drum
Catch & Release
Girls Like Girls Like Boys Do
It's Been a Long, Long Time
Love's Perfect Ache
Now and Again We Try to Just Stay Alive
Regale You With A Gourd-geous Tale
Say You'll Remember Me
Say You'll Remember Me (Denali's Version)
Tell Me It's A Nightmare
d o c t o r w h o
Cuddle, Meet Puddle
Cute Things
Don't Blink (Part 1)
Don't Turn Your Back (Part 2)
Don't Look Away (Part 3)
Dreams See Us Through (Part 4)
Hate the Feeling of Falling
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas
Horrible Things
Isn't That Wizard
It's How I'm Made
Let Me Come Home
Little Creepy House
On the Brave Shit
The Origin of (Love Bug) Species
What Beautiful Things I'll Wear
When the Crypt Doors Creak
You Know That I Would Jump Too
d u c k t a l e s
Tales of Daring
g o o d o m e n s
All I Want For Christmas
Aziraphale's Favorite Author
Dance on a Tightrope of Weird
Free as My Hair
His Love is All in Me
How the Wine Plays Tricks on My Tongue
Lockdown Blues
Making Biscuits
My Heart's a Stereo
Naked in That Garden (18+)
Out There Making DuckTales
Pickin' Up the Pieces of the Mess You Made
Road to Hell
Something Meaty For The Main Course
Step Too Far
Tongue Tied
Your Love is Holy (18+)
f a l l o f t h e h o u s e o f u s h e r
Tomorrow I Shall Be Fetterless (18+)
f r i g h t n i g h t
Emptiness to Melody
Everybody Scream in Our Town of Halloween
Fixed Up to the Nines
Howl Like an Animal in the Darkness
I'm So Hot I'd Fuck Myself (18+)
I'm Starvin', Darlin', Let Me Put My Lips to Somethin'
Late Night Devil Put Your Hands On Me (18+)
Make Me Glow
Night of Long Fangs (18+)
Parade of Dancing Skeletons
Talk So Pretty (18+)
Who Are You Supposed To Be, Criss Angel? (18+)
h a u n t i n g o f b l y m a n o r
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j u r a s s i c p a r k / w o r l d
Best Behavior
The Future Ex Mrs. Malcolm
p r o d i g a l s o n
But Then My Stupid Phone Beeps
Never Fallen From Quite This High
Office Supplies
Rude Boy
They are the Hunters, We are the Foxes
Trigger Happy
With a Sense of Poise (18+)
I don’t like this prompt. Every national park can be dangerous, and the deadliest places in parks, hands-down, are the roads, where drivers are distracted by wildlife and scenery. But if we’re going with pure statistics, excluding automobile accidents, then the most dangerous park, according to Backpacker Magazine, is Denali. The main cause of death is exposure, followed by falls. Despite what many folks might assume, there has only been one fatality caused by a bear in the park’s entire hundred-year-plus history.
National parks, overall, are pretty safe places. Park rangers work hard to keep them that way, trying to balance the wilderness experience with the health and safety of the visiting public. We implore folks to follow common safety measures in the backcountry and along the roadways, and there’s a whole facet of rangering called “PSAR”—preventative search and rescue. These folks are usually stationed at popular trailheads, checking that people have the proper gear, water, and footwear to successfully complete the hike. PSARs are your friends! Listen to the PSARs!
Day 26: Remove
When seasonals sit down for ranger training at the beginning of the summer, there’s one topic that we know we’re going to hear about, no matter which unit in the system we’re in. Invasive species. From lionfish to kudzu to emerald ash borers to toadflax, every park has its problem species that are taking over native ecosystems. Removal is a tricky, labor-intensive process—if they can be removed at all.
The Everglades are a prime spot for invasive species—they’re considered one of the most severely-infested parks in the system in terms of nonnative plants. The subtropical environment, combined with the famous issues of humans releasing exotic pets into the wild and planting exotic gardens, mean that some of these species can multiply rapidly with no natural checks and balances. Rangers work hard to keep invasives from destroying habitat needed by native plants and animals, but the truth is, in many cases the damage is done, and exotics are simply here to stay.
Day 27: Beast
How fortunate are we to share a continent with bison? Is there any animal more iconic of rolling American wilderness, or more representative of the sins and triumphs of our history? The bison is our national mammal, and the symbol on our ranger patch to represent the wildlife protected by the National Park Service.
Working in parks with bison, like Theodore Roosevelt, always creates an extra layer of excitement to the job. I’ve been late to work because of bison jams along roadways and had to physically move programs because bison were hanging out in the amphitheater. I once couldn’t take my trash out because a bison had bedded down just steps from my door. As a ranger, it’s easy to start thinking of bison as giant, bullheaded nuisances, but then you lock eyes with one outside your car window, and you remember—oh, this beast is the heartbeat of this landscape, my elder and my companion, and I’m dead privileged to wear her image on my chest.
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Nope. I've been on this f'in bus ride when we were in Alaska. The ride back to Wonder Lake starts off nice and easy on a wide paved road, but 12 miles into the park that shit changes, and quickly. Pretty soon there's nothing visible out the window but sheer nothingness. No curbs, no guard rails, no nothing.
Leaf mines from a larva of the aspen leafminer moth, Phyllocnistis populiella, on a quaking aspen, Populus tremuloides, in Denali National Park in Alaska. Aspen leafminer larvae feed on the epidermal tissue of plant leaves; while they don’t eat photosynthetic material, they indirectly disrupt photosynthesis by destroying guard cells around leaf stomata. Guard cells control when stomata are opened or closed, so they can end up stuck in one position and either prevent carbon dioxide uptake or allow excess water loss. Leaves affected by aspen leafminers often die. Aspen leafminers tend to experience population increase during warm, dry years, so while they’re native to Alaska, researchers are keeping an eye on them and their impact as climate change warms up the region.