Day: October 11, 2018

argumate:

aisandetsarepeopletoo:

Apparently Ethiopian Baboons are starting to domesticate wolves, which is giving scientists new insights about what it might have been like when early humans did that. That’s cool pretty cool!

“not quite as cool as we thought!” scream scientists, as baboons riding wolves come pouring out of the forest

frolicingintheforest:

frolicingintheforest:

Mossy Rhododendron

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URGENT UPDATE!

Parts of this forest are soon to be logged ! ! !

I received the devastating news today. I had a feeling that it was bound to happen, and that’s why I took action when I did. Thank you for all the support so far! But I need you NOW more than ever. I’m meeting with the land owners on Friday (Oct. 12th, 2018), they are coming from out of state. I’m going to share my plans and ideas, and encourage them that there are better options for this beautiful property!

I need your input!

I am gathering messages/ thoughts from you all, on WHY NATURE PRESERVES ARE IMPORTANT, especially in regions that are already nearly destroyed by man. I am going to print these messages and share them with the land owners!

SEND ME MESSAGES

Tell me why the forest is important to you, reasons forests should be preserved, logging effects on fragile environments/ the creatures who live there, etc. These messages can me anonymous or you can chose to include your name. Please, give me some support! This is very important to me!

vandaliatraveler:

The above photos are from my hike yesterday on the South Prong Trail in the Red Creek Plains, adjacent to the Dolly Sods Wilderness in the Monongahela National Forest. These areas, along with Roaring Plains and Flatrock Plains, comprise the highest plateau in the eastern United States. They are places of otherwordly beauty, where the ancient bedrock has been heaved up in huge, stacked slabs, as if arranged by some primordial being into primitive temples of sandstone and shale. Around these ancient temples are gathered the artifacts of the last ice age: forests of red spruce and sphagnum bogs with plants more at home in Maine and Nova Scotia than in the Mid-Atlantic region. It’s easy to forget that the many treasures of the plains are part of a regenerating landscape. The plateau was scraped clean to the bone by reckless logging practices and subsequent man-made fires at the turn of the last century. Nature’s resiliency and will to endure never fail to amaze me.

vandaliatraveler:

Appalachian Summer/Fall, 2018, Volume Nine: Nodding Ladies’ Tresses Orchid. One of Appalachia’s most unusual orchids blooms in high mountain bogs, moist woods, and wet meadows from late summer through the first frost of fall. Nodding ladies’ tresses orchid (Spiranthes cernua) produces fragrant, downward-curved white flowers in double, intertwined rows at the top of a slender, slightly hairy stalk. The double spiral arrangement of the flowers gives this lovely and striking perennial herb its common name. The flowering stalk grows from a basal rosette of thin, grass-like leaves, which sometimes wither before the flowers bloom. Several species of bees, including bumblebees, are known to pollinate the flowers; they typically travel from the lowest flowers, which contain the most nectar, to the highest ones. The nodding ladies’ tresses orchid reproduces both by seed and by branching rhizomes, which explains why it appears in closely grouped clumps in the damp peat of sphagnum bogs. This orchid is easily propagated in wildflower gardens. The above photos were taken in the bog complex at Spruce Knob Lake.