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thorsenmark · 15 days
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Only Wanting Fresh Air (Indiana Dunes National Park)
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Only Wanting Fresh Air (Indiana Dunes National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking along the shores of Lake Michigan in Indiana Dunes National Park with a view looking to the northwest on an overcast afternoon. In composing this image, I decided to use some of the dunes nearby and create a more layered approach with the shoreline and then waves coming in across Lake Michigan.
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paleoart · 10 months
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The worst singular day in the history of life on Earth.
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introvertedswimmer · 16 days
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Cape May Warbler
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gardenvarietygay · 25 days
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All the babies. Of the ~550 trays here, I personally seeded about 240 of them. Only the very early stuff is coming up, mostly the alliums and violets. Every single one of these was seeded by hand from seeds we stratified (unless they don’t require stratification). There are 70,040 cells in here and our germination rate is very high, we usually have just as many finished plants as there are cells started. So around 70,000 native plants will be sold to the public and some local government programs but they’ll all get planted somewhere. 70,000 more links in the chain for the ecosystem. 70,000 more chances a pollinator finds the plant they need to survive. 70,000 more root systems anchoring degraded soils. 70,000 more reminders that the earth is home for all of us, including those who cannot speak and are easily ignored.
This is the 5th season my boss has grown native plants for sale at this scale. So there may be as many as 350,000 plants out there that he ushered along into existence. To do all this work, stratifying and hand seeding, takes about two weeks (not including the 90 days the seeds just sit in the fridge). It’s not impossible, there’s very little mystery, once you find your rhythm it’s all very doable. You take the time to tediously tweezer a little gooey clump of seeds into a seedling cell 128 times and that’s one tray. You do that for 20 trays, that takes about 5 hours. You go to lunch. Repeat for two weeks. Your coworkers come in after you and do the same thing. Three people make enough plants to cover about 1.5 acres of land. It’s not changing the world but it is changing my town.
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rogueshadeaux · 1 year
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I love the notion that the Second Son karmatic symbol that Delsin creates—that's on his jean vest, stuck to a button over his heart, and can be tagged all throughout Seattle as he fights for his tribe—
Is a symbol of his people.
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na-bird-of-the-day · 5 months
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BOTD: Plain Xenops
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Photo: João Vitor Andriola
"Active small bird of humid tropical forest. Usually found singly, often moving with mixed-species feeding flocks. Clambers and climbs on small branches, twigs, and vines, mainly at middle to upper levels inside forest. Often hangs upside down like a chickadee. Note the bold white whisker mark, boldly patterned black-and-rusty wings and tail, and short, wedge-shaped bill. Song is a short, high, liquid trill."
- eBird
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docileeffects · 9 days
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Cows.
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kansasjustgotgayer · 2 years
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Fuck LITERALLY EVERYTHING there is NOTHING i want more than to get a stupid little camper and TRAVEL!
Today i am spending my time hating everyone else who has the money for that because I deserve that too!
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trenchcoatbeez · 2 years
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??Prairies??
Once upon a time, before the widespread use of the steel plow swept the nation, the vast majority of the central United States was covered in grasslands from southern Canada to central Texas.
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Prairies are generally defined as grassland that has less than 11% tree coverage at any given point and can be divided up into tallgrass, mixed-grass, and shortgrass sections.
Tallgrass prairies covered a little more than the eastern third of all prairies and could be seen getting up to ten feet tall. These types of prairies were extremely grass heavy, and there would generally be a decent amount of forbs and wildflowers. Walking through one would be like swimming through grassy stalks with no way to see where you were going!
Shortgrass prairie is the other predominant prairie type and mostly occurs in the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Due to far less precipitation, the grasses here get only about a foot high and have a pretty low population of forbs. This is the home of the prairie dogs and pronghorn that many people think of when they think of prairies.
Mixed-grass prairie, as you might have guessed, is a bit of both. The increase in precipitation allows for more height to the grasses, but also for a boom in forbs and wildflowers.
Each of these types of prairies added a wonderful amount of diversity to the ecosystems that they were a part of, both in terms of flora and fauna, and their rapid disappearance is a terrible loss to the biodiversity of the Great Plains of North America.
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travelella · 2 months
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Cross Plains, Wisconsin, United States of America
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thorsenmark · 5 days
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Beyond the Forest and Trees to Sight Seen Along the Dune Ridge Trail (Indiana Dunes National Park)
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Beyond the Forest and Trees to Sight Seen Along the Dune Ridge Trail (Indiana Dunes National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views across the forest and marshlands, walking the Dune Ridge Trail in Indiana Dunes National Park.
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paleoart · 1 year
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Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus)
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aerialhorizon · 1 year
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Abstract Landscape- Ripples and Fingerprints
Impressions of long prevailing winds and ephemeral floods reveal themselves in rippling bas relief on the snow covered plains while the temporal impressions of man distort the snowfields in swirled fingerprints of plowed furrows.
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cyallowitz · 1 year
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The Bison: Again, These Are Not Buffalo
The Bison: Again, These Are Not Buffalo
Last weekend, I made a post about true buffalo.  Those species are found in Asia and Africa.  Today, I’m going to talk about bison, which also get called buffalo.  Both groups are bovines, but there are differences. Bison have humps, larger heads, beards, thick coats that they shed, and their horns are both shorter and sharper.  Now that we got the disclaimer out of the way, let’s get…
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doorbrother · 1 year
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