Tag: forests
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August 21, 2009 07:47 PM EDT --
We slept on the roof again that night. It was the third time in a week. We’d bring our bed rolls up and lay them out onto the gentle slope of the northern rooftop. The three room cabin . . .
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September 11, 2007 03:07 AM EDT --
Sometimes the flow of day’s events
Dissolve me into rhythm, rhyme--
When fragrant air envelopes trees
And breezes trip to music time.
The colors flare their own, no care
To blend a green . . .
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August 21, 2006 01:37 PM EDT --
Rat Wars
Fall is typically the time of the year when young rats leave their nests and strike out on their own. In most rural parts of the country the greener pastures they seek come in the form of warm . . .
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November 14, 2007 11:40 AM EST --
NEW YORK, Nov 11 (OneWorld) - Major U.S. companies are adding to the impending threat of global warming as they drive the production of palm oil in Indonesia's tropical forests, says a new study by . . .
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April 22, 2007 08:54 AM EDT --
My name is Tucker Evans and with my Mistress Elizabeth I am celebrating Earth Day, 2007 by a romp in my favorite woods...the woods behind my house. Right now we are at the top of a big hill overlooking . . .
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September 05, 2007 02:07 AM EDT --
Old Growth Forests are characterized by trees of all ages; wide spacing between the older trees, and a luxuriant and diverse understory of plants adapted to low levels of light. The stand I was lucky . . .
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October 14, 2008 04:54 PM EDT --
I had a difficult time trying to condense this review into a very few words. There is so much action and suspense.
Gowain de Crecy had been fighting in France and spent a year in the French prisons. . . .
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February 15, 2009 05:39 AM EST --
BBC -- -- The severity of global warming over the next century will be much worse than previously believed, a leading climate scientist has warned.
Professor Chris Field, an author of a 2007 . . .
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September 07, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
Well, Geocaching has taken me to yet another place I never imagined going. Washington State! To fiind and log another A.P.E. cache.
The Project A.P.E. caches have become something special to a lot . . .
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May 28, 2008 08:39 PM EDT --
Kudos to Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congressman Rick Larsen (D-WA) who co-sponsored the Wild Sky Winderness legislation that will be signed into law Thursday, May 8, by President Bush. This . . .
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August 08, 2009 05:09 AM EDT --
I wrote this back in March this year on a day that absolutely reeked of the spring time of year. I'm posting it now in the hope that it's actually spring somewhere for somebody, either in their memories . . .
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August 22, 2009 06:59 AM EDT --
Deep in California Forests, an Illicit Business Thrives
By JESSE McKINLEY
Long a fixture of public lands, marijuana “grows” are increasing in California.
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October 10, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human . . .
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September 02, 2006 10:19 AM EDT --
One of my lessor skills that is being worked on all the time is that of logger and sawyer. One before shot of some Ponderosa Pine logs.
Another shot of some of the finished . . .
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June 04, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
When I was about 8 years old, my Dad helped a friend of his cut down some trees on his land. One of the trees they felled contained a squirrel's nest. There were five baby squirrels in . . .
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February 21, 2009 04:35 PM EST --
Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice -- "Every time I see bubbles, I have the same feeling," says Katey Walter, a University of Alaska researcher. "They are amazing and beautiful." . . .
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August 14, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
Babbling brooks, cool and serene;
Chuckling over rocks mossy green.
Deep dark pools, Hide the big fish;
The ones of a fisherman's wish.
Waterfalls cascading like a bride's veil; . . .
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March 07, 2009 04:18 PM EST --
Drought could turn carbon sinks into sources --Will rainforests still absorb CO2 in future?
The tropical forests of South America, Africa and Asia take up and release huge amounts of carbon each . . .
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November 26, 2009 12:40 AM EST --
THE Queensland Government has started the ball rolling on the first public asset to be sold under its $15 billion privatisation plan.
Treasurer Andrew Fraser told parliament today the formal sale . . .
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September 05, 2009 07:44 PM EDT --
~If only mankind had known
Copyright ©2009 Dawn Kilby/Scott Kilby
Mother Nature's forests, carelessly raped.
Countless, innocent animals; some homeless, . . .
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