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[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Sunset View Overlook at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado, USA

My Photo ~ September 19, 2022

#black canyon of the gunnison #light #shadows #leaves #fall foliage #oak #autumn #juniper #canyons #gunnison river #view #vista #scenic overlook

[morewhatnot-lessnaked]

#whatnot #original content #my photo #photography #black canyon of the gunnison national park #nps #colorado #rocky mountains #colorado plateau #gunnison river

[thorsenmark]

Rediscovering the Magic of Nature! (Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the south across the canyon and gorge with blue skies above at the Kneeling Camel View overlook in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. My thinking in composing this image was to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and capture that sweeping view with the Gunnison River slowly flowing by. The canyon and cliff walls would be all around with just a portion of the blue skies in the upper part of the image.

#Azimuth 181 #Black Canyon #Black Canyon Of The Gunnison #Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park #Blue Skies #Canyon #Canyon Walls #Colorado Great Sand Dunes & Black Canyon of the Gunnison #Day 4 #DxO PhotoLab 3 Edited #Elk Range Area #Gunnison River #Kneeling Camel View #Landscape #Landscape - Scenery #Looking Down a Canyon #Looking South #Nature #Nikon D850 #No People #North Rim #Outside #Portfolio #Project365 #Ridge #Ridgeline #Ridges #River #River Canyon #River Gorge

[wanderguidehub]

Gunnison River Unleashed: Embark on a Waterside Odyssey

Discover the Majesty of Gunnison River Welcome to the untamed realm of the Gunnison River, where nature’s grandeur merges with thrilling adventure. Nestled in the heart of Colorado, the Gunnison River invites adventurers to experience the exhilaration of its rapids, the serenity of its canyons, and the timeless beauty of its landscapes. Whether you’re seeking heart-pounding whitewater excitement…

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#accommodations #Adventure Travel #Camping #Colorado #destination guide #Gunnison River #Hiking #local culture #lodges #nature exploration #Outdoor Activities #rapids #River Rafting #rock climbing #water sports

[plethoraworldatlas]

Conservation groups filed objections this week to the U.S. Forest Service’s proposed final management plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests in western Colorado. The plan would allow commercial logging on more than 772,000 acres of public lands, including mature and old-growth trees — a 66% increase from the current forest plan.

“A sizeable area of our beloved forests could be sacrificed to commercial logging at the expense of our already dwindling wilderness areas, wildlife habitat and recreation,” said Chad Reich with High Country Conservation Advocates. “Outdoor recreation is a far larger economic driver for our communities than the local timber industry that benefits from cutting these forests. The Forest Service would’ve known that if it had conducted an economic analysis, as required by law.”

Under the proposed plan mature and old-growth forests, which store massive amounts of carbon, could be commercially logged. Forest managers would not be required to identify and protect old-growth and mature trees. Steep slopes across the forests, including Upper Taylor Canyon and Slate River Valley, could also be logged despite the high risk of severe erosion and threats to water quality.

“The proposed plan directly violates federal policy on protecting mature and old-growth trees as a cornerstone of U.S. climate action,” said Alison Gallensky, conservation geographer with Rocky Mountain Wild. “The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests boast the highest carbon sequestration capacity of any national forest in the Rocky Mountain region. Despite this the Forest Service has failed to ensure these vital carbon sinks aren’t logged and sold.”

Objections also challenged the Forest Service’s failure to take urgently needed climate action by prohibiting new coal leasing in the plan.

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The Forest Service recommended adding only 46,200 acres of new wilderness area in the final plan. The community’s conservation proposal had called for more than 324,000 acres of new wilderness lands. In addition, the Gunnison Public Lands Initiative offered a broadly supported proposal for new wilderness and special management areas in Gunnison County that was mostly excluded.

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“Community members proposed special management area designations to protect pristine forestlands in the North Fork Valley from logging and oil and gas drilling,” said Peter Hart, legal director at Wilderness Workshop. “The Forest Service ignored those proposals and chose not to protect those areas in the new plan.”

The groups also raised concerns about the plan’s failure to address the myriad needs of plants and animals that depend on the forests.

“Over 20 years ago Colorado Parks and Wildlife reintroduced Canada lynx to the San Juan Mountains,” said Rocky Smith, a long-time forest management analyst. “This is a great source of pride for wildlife lovers in this state. Lynx are federally threatened and depend on mature forests with large trees. This plan allows for logging that could easily degrade or destroy much of the best habitat for lynx and their main prey, snowshoe hares, and undermine Colorado’s hard work to reestablish and maintain a viable lynx population.”

The Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests also provide habitat for the iconic bighorn sheep and lesser-known species like the Grand Junction milkvetch and the Tundra buttercup. These species, among others, need special designation the Forest Service grants to plants and animals when there is concern about their ability to survive in the area. Many struggling plants and animals were left off the list in the proposed final plan.

“Without the species of conservation concern designation the Forest Service has no obligation to make sure the plants and animals continue to exist locally,” said Chris Krupp, public lands attorney with WildEarth Guardians. “In many cases, the agency decided not to designate wildlife, plants or fish merely because it had no data on their population trends. Without species of conservation concern designation, the number of bighorn sheep in GMUG could dwindle down to almost nothing and the agency wouldn’t have to do anything about it.”

#ecology #enviromentalism #old growth forest #colorado #us forest service #lynx #bighorn sheep #grand mesa #Uncompahgre #gunnison #national forest

[natures-moments]

Gunnison River, Colorado, USA.

[madlori]

National Parks progress

I haven't posted about this in awhile. I'm going to pass the halfway mark in May (they keep making it harder, though, four new National Parks have been added since I started this ten years ago).

Here's where I've been. I have a trip planned for May, those are in italics.

Cuyahoga Valley

Great Smoky Mountains

Mammoth Cave

Congaree

Grand Canyon

Petrified Forest

Big Bend

Guadalupe Mountains

Carlsbad Caverns

White Sands

Saguaro

Shenandoah 

Acadia 

Joshua Tree 

Badlands 

Wind Cave 

Theodore Roosevelt 

Hot Springs 

Channel Islands

Biscayne

Everglades

Dry Tortugas

Glacier Bay

Wrangell St-Elias

Kenai Fjords

Denali

New River Gorge

Indiana Dunes

Voyageurs

Arches (May 2024)

Canyonlands (May 2024)

Capitol Reef (May 2024)

Mesa Verde (May 2024)

Black Canyon of the Gunnison (May 2024)

#national parks #bucket list

[xiaq]

The eyes of people who have not slept and are not happy about it.

Well. It's been an eventful 48 hours. We were supposed to get into Denver Wednesday and head straight to Gunnison. However, our plane was delayed and didn't arrive in Denver until 10pm Wednesday night. Then we sat on the tarmac for 3 hours because the winter storm had all but a couple gates shut down. Then, the tram was down for an hour, which meant we were trapped in the terminal. We finally got to the baggage claim at 3am. And found out they couldn't get our bags off the train so we'd need to "come back tomorrow." Except we couldn't leave, because there were no ride-shares or taxis or rental cars available because of the storm. It was -12 (-25 with windchill) so walking somewhere wasn't an option. Our coats and cold-weather clothes were in our checked bags. And the hotel next door was full. At 10am (after maybe 2-3 hrs of restless sleep) we finally got our bags and our car and had breakfast at Rivers and Roads (10/10 do recommend, the barista gave us free gluten-free donut holes after hearing about our ordeal).

We got on the road at 11:30am, which is when the snowstorm hit. So the 3-hour drive took closer to 6. Here's a video toward the end when we finally drove out of the snowstorm and the sun came out, except the wind was blowing freshly fallen snow all over the road (lol @ B's little "you're doing great" at the end).

We finally got to Gunnison at 6 last night. Got frozen dinners to heat up in our motel microwave, took Deacon for a well-deserved walk (he has been the BIGGEST trooper through all this nonsense) and fell into bed by 9pm. We slept fantastically, woke up refreshed and feeling like new people today, and fully enjoyed visiting my old haunts in Gunnison (including stopping at Boom-A-Rang thrift for vintage snowsuits and Tributary Coffee for Tumeric/Ginger lattes).

I was rocking my best 90's mom look and intend to continue doing so. We then hit the road for Montrose, and are now cozy in our hotel. We'll hike in the Black Canyon tomorrow morning and then head to Telluride :)

This has been a Winter Adventure Update. (I'm planning to propose in Telluride. Probably. We'll see.)

#x goes on an adventure #mylife #b #colorado #gunnison #airtravel #travel woes #the tiniest of violins

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Left: A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Right: By comparison, a map created using lidar shows shifts over the past 75 years. Erosion and changes in flow caused the channel to widen in the middle of the image and migrate toward the south. Source; https://www.nationalgeographic.com/.../mississippi.../

[Geomorphological Features]

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“My vessel is launched on the boundless main and my sails are spread to the wind ! In the whole of the world there is nothing that stays unchanged. All is in flux. Any shape that is formed is constantly shifting. Time itself flows steadily by in perpetual motion. Think of a river: no river can ever arrest its current, nor can the fleeting hour. But as water is forced downstream by the water behind it and presses no less on the water ahead, so time is in constant flight and pursuit, continually new. The present turns into the past and the future replaces the present; every moment that passes is new and eternally changing.”

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

#maps #rivers #Mississippi River #quotes #Ovid #Metamorphoses #flux and change

[wandering-jana]

Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado

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[desertdollranch]

Kewanee and I spent the past few days exploring Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, in western Colorado. As you can see, we had a great time! The canyon itself is breathtaking--in some places it's 2000 feet/600 meters deep! The ancient, exposed rock tells the life story of Earth over many millions of years. The Gunnison river flowing through the canyon down below seemed so far away, even though we could hear its roaring in the distance.

Kewanee is such a fun little buddy to bring along on outdoor adventures. She's always down for anything, and never gets tired or bored.

The best views were from the south rim, although the solitude of the north rim was nice. Our campsite was lovely as well, so much so that it was especially sad to leave it when our trip was over.

#kewanee

[20th-century-railroading]

Black Canyon of the Gunnison In the northwest portion of the “Narrow Gauge Circle,” Denver & Rio Grande Western 2-8-0 narrow-gauge steam locomotive No. 361 leads a freight out of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River near Cimarron, Colorado, on June 29, 1939. R. H. Kindig

#d&rgw #rio grande #1939 #trains #freight train #history #cimarron #colorado

[thorsenmark]

I’ve Seen Black Canyon of the Gunnison Up Close by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: Now I’ve seen it from up high :-) This was on an airplane flight from Salt Lake City to Austin after spending about a week in southern Utah and Nevada exploring national park there. I had a chance to visit Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park not long after the start of the Covid pandemic and was amazed at the wonder and geology of that area with its formations. I found this view a touching way to end a trip on my flight back to Austin. I wasn't able to get any GPS locations, but the view is looking generally to the southwest while over the western center portion of Colorado.

#Aerial View #Airplane Window #Airplane Window View #Airplane Wing #Azimuth #Black Canyon #Black Canyon Of The Gunnison #Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park #Blue Skies #Canyon #Canyon Walls #Day 9 #Delta Airlines #DxO PhotoLab 5 Edited #Elk Range Area #Flight SLC to AUS #Flying over Colorado #Gunnison River #Jet Airplane #Landscape #Landscape - Scenery #Looking Down a Canyon #Looking Outside Plane Window #Looking SW #Looking out Airplane Window #Looking out the Airplane Window #Miscellaneous #Nikon D850 #No People #North Rim

[buechermadl]

Rezension -So weit der Fluss uns trägt-

Klappentext

Am Fuße der Berge Colorados strömt der Gunnison River an einer alten Pfirsichfarm vorbei. Hier lebt in den 1940ern die 17-jährige Victoria mit ihrem Vater und ihrem Bruder in rauer Abgeschiedenheit. Doch der Tag, an dem sie dem freiheitsliebenden Wil begegnet, verändert alles. Bald ist Victoria gezwungen, das Leben, das sie kennt, aufzugeben und in die Wildnis zu fliehen. Dort muss sie ums Überleben kämpfen - um ihr eigenes und um das ihres ungeborenen Kindes. Als sie endlich die Kraft findet, neu anzufangen, droht der Fluss, alles zu zerstören, was ihrer Familie seit Generationen ein Zuhause war.

Cover

Das Cover hat mich sofort angesprochen, es passt perfekt zum Buch.

Schreibstil

Der Schreibstil ist packend und hat mich direkt in die Geschichte hineingezogen.

Inhalt/Rezension

Ich bin durch die allgemein positiven Meinungen auf das Buch aufmerksam geworden und ich mit einer tiefen und schweren Geschichte gerechnet, das sich auch bestätigt hat.

Victoria wächst auf einer Pfirsichfarm auf und muss schon früh mit einigen Todesfällen leben. Als sie sich in Wilson verliebt, muss sie fliehen und in der Wildnis überleben. 

Ich habe die Protagonistin sehr bewundert, sie ist stark und gibt niemals auf. Auch die schöne Landschaft von Colorado wird toll beschrieben und man hat das Gefühl mit Victoria gemeinsam in der Wildnis zu sein.

Das Buch hat mich sehr berührt, das Leben der jungen Frau und wie sie damit umgeht und lebt hat mich sehr inspiriert. 

Fazit

Ein Buch, das noch länger in mir nachhallen wird.

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Verlag: C.Bertelsmann

Autorin: Shelley Read

Preis: 24 Euro

Buchlänge: 366 Seiten

[vancouverislandtotoronto2023]

Day 13, Thursday June 8: Durango to Silverton to Ouray to Montrose via Hwy 550, then via 50 to Gunnison. 330 km

I'll be riding over the San Juan Mountains via the Million Dollar Highway today. At 6,522 ft, the road from Durango is a typical river valley, lush and green farms and ranches on the right and on the left, red hilltops, stained by the iron in the soil.

As I start the climb to Silverton (9,318', pop 651), the air gets typically cooler, the hills turn to mountains, and the scenery from lush to spectacular. Silverton was a booming silver mining area back in 1860 but is now mostly a cute and charming tourist town that lays claim to the world's highest Harley Davidson shop.

From Silverton, I pick up the section of Hwy 550 known as the Million Dollar Highway. Although the name could legitimately be attributed to the views, it actually stems from the cost. Originally constructed as a toll road by Otto Mears in 1883 to transport minerals, it was to rebuilt in the early 1920s at a purported cost of one million dollars per mile. Its twists, winds, climbs, and descents are both an engineering marvel and a dream to ride. To enable the snow plows to clear all the snow, much of the route has no guardrails, which partially explains why it has also been called America's most dangerous highway. It's also a long way down. Between Silverton and Ouray, I ride over the red mountain pass at 11,018'.

Ouray (7,792', pop 921) was once home to over 30 active mines. Today, its climate, natural alpine environment, and scenery have earned it the nickname "Switzerland of America".

My final leg of Hwy 550 takes me north to Montrose (5,807', pop 20,648), the county seat of Montrose County. Back down from the mountains, it's essentially lower, flatter, hotter, and dryer.

But not for long. As I head east on Hwy 50 towards Gunnison (7,703', pop 6,695) I climb up through the natural playgrounds for fishing, skiing, hiking, biking, motocross, boating and rock climbing, for which this area is known including the Gunnison River, Tomichi Creek and Blue Mesa Reservoir, Curecanti National Recreation Area, Tomichi State Wildlife Area, Sapinero State Wildlife Area, McIntosh State Wildlife Area, and Hartman Rocks.

It's been a short but taxing ride and a long day. Luckily, my hotel has a hot tub, so a long spell there, followed by a couple of local craft beers, I think I see an early bedtime in my future.

[natures-moments]

Gunnison river in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado, USA