Red Fox
Young fox taking a nap on the edge in the beautiful boreal forest.
Taken By CJ Lessard
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Walk with me: Visit to a high-elevation red spruce forest. The red spruce (Picea rubens) forest on top of Red Spruce Knob, the ninth highest peak in West Virginia, provides a bittersweet glimpse back in time to the primeval beauty and solitude of such places prior to the arrival of the logging companies in the mid-Nineteenth to early Twentieth centuries. The loggers stripped the mountains bare and set in motion the massive wildfires that burned away everything, including the soil itself, down to solid bedrock. Almost a century later, the forest is regenerating and in some places, such as Red Spruce Knob, has regained the richness and vitality of a healthy boreal ecosystem.
From top: a view of Red Spruce Knob, in the far distance, from the Highland Scenic Highway overlook; Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), a ubiquitous understory component of the forest, along with mountain woodsorrel, yellow clintonia (a.k.a. blue-bead lily), hobblebush viburnum, Indian cucumber, green false hellebore, and various mosses and ferns; yellow clintonia (Clintonia borealis) in bloom; pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule); green false hellebore (Veratrum viride) on eastern hay-scented fern (Dennstaedtia punctilobula); and mountain woodsorrel (Oxalis montana).
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A Subtle Presence - Nicholas Jones , 2018.
British, b. 1965 -
Acrylic on canvas , 36 x 30 in. 91.4 x 76.2 cm.
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The Northern Lights hover eerily over the Alaska Highway in B.C.
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route 117 nord, réservoir dozois
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Moodboard for:
A Northern Lights kin with an affinity for the Arctic Tundra and Boreal Forest!
Requested by: @maggie--pie !!
[CW for mild flashing! Stay safe <3]
(Description:
A moodboard, featuring an image of the Northern Lights shining above an Arctic landscape in the middle square.
Above and below the middle square are two more images of the Northern Lights. They are each above a body of water, one being partially frozen with bubbles visible, and the other being completely frozen over.
To the left and the right of the middle square two more images. To the left is a forested path with a floor made of reindeer moss, and to the right is a dark tundra landscape with blues, whites, and oranges.
The top-left corner contains an image of a caribou eating grasses in the tundra, and the top-right corner contains a dark, foggy coniferous forest. The bottom-left corner contains an image of a Canadian lynx in the snow, who appears to be on the prowl, and the bottom-right corner contains a GIF of a dark, snowy forest with animations of falling snow and alternating tints of light and dark purple.
End of description.)
Oh wow, I think this board came out beautifully!
Like the original requester, I also find myself at home in the tundras and Northern Canada, so this was wonderful to put together ^^
Hope you enjoy the board :DD
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Overpass for wildlife to safely cross - Banff National Park, Alberta
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