#Birch Mountain

[thorsenmark]

Get Yourself to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking the Discovery Trail and taking in views of the ancient bristlecone pines in this portion of the Schulman Grove and Inyo National Forest. The view is looking to the southwest with a distant view of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

[raining-tulips]

commonplace on the Scottish Mountain Birch Project - repost with credit only

[wildflowercryptid]

real egg moments with brendan birch

[aisling-saoirse]

Dwarf Birch Forest, Iceland - October 9th 2023

[bumblebeeappletree]

We're searching Scotlands Highlands to find and bring back a rare habitat, Mountain Birch.

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MOSSY EARTH MEMBERSHIP

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⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️

00:00 Intro

00:40 Adventure begins!

02:18 What is Mountain Birch?

03:31 Why is Mountain Birch Missing?

04:44 What Scotland could look like!

06:05 What we're doing

07:12 Adventure continues...

09:27 Gus' channel?

09:55 To the nursery

🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT

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Montane woodland is a virtually extinct habitat in Scotland. Of the 5.1% of native forests in the Scottish Highlands, only a mere 4% exists above altitudes of 400 metres. Although important restoration schemes are working to restore Caledonian pine forest, temperate rainforests and montane willow scrub, a missing piece of the landscape is largely, if not completely neglected - mountain birch woodland. In what should be a transitional zone between lower and higher mountain woodlands, high-altitude adapted species like mountain birch have all but disappeared, leaving a gap in this ecological niche. This Mountain Birch Project (MBP), led by Reforesting Scotland, aims to progress efforts to reinstate mountain birch woodland in Scotland. It will involve locating remaining fragments, mapping their distribution and seed collection and propagation, as well as the establishment of a seed orchard.

Find out more about this project here: https://www.mossy.earth/projects/the-...

[whisperthatruns]

Birches

When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy's been swinging them. But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay. Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. They click upon themselves As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel. Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust--- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves: You may see their trunks arching in the woods Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair Before them over their heads to dry in the sun. But I was going to say when Truth broke in With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm (Now am I free to be poetical?) I should prefer to have some boy bend them As he went out and in to fetch the cows--- Some boy too far from town to learn baseball, Whose only play was what he found himself, Summer or winter, and could play alone. One by one he subdued his father's trees By riding them down over and over again Until he took the stiffness out of them, And not one but hung limp, not one was left For him to conquer. He learned all there was To learn about not launching out too soon And so not carrying the tree away Clear to the ground. He always kept his poise To the top branches, climbing carefully With the same pains you use to fill a cup Up to the brim, and even above the brim. Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground. So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be. It's when I'm weary of considerations, And life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig's having lashed across it open. I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Robert Frost, Mountain Interval (1916), The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, ed. Edward Connery Lathem (Henry Holt and Company, 2002)

[themcphotographer]

so many cornflowers!

[spilladabalia]

Malcolm Mclaren Presents Double Dutch

[coupons4u-co-uk]

Did you experience the Best Mountain Cycling?

Riding a bike takes you on a flexion where you may discover new places and have fun while exploring a variety of landscapes and hidden jewels.

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[andulkaphoto]

[rabbitcruiser]

Musket Shot Springs Scenic Overlook, UT (No. 1)

Why is This Place Named Musket Shot Springs?

For six months back in 1776, two Franciscan monks named Fray Francisco Altnasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante led a party of ten men through this part of western Colorado and eastern Utah. What they were looking for was a new route to the Spanish missions in California. As they approached the Utah border, they killed a lone bison and prepared the meat while resting for a day.

From the Diary of Father Escalante September 13, 1776

"We continued for a quarter of a league in the same direction along a well-beaten path near which, toward the south, two copious springs of the finest water rise, a musket shot apart from each other, which we named Las Fuentes de Santa Clara (meaning this is really great water).

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[thorsenmark]

Get Yourself to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking the Discovery Trail and taking in views of the ancient bristlecone pines in this portion of the Schulman Grove and Inyo National Forest. The view is looking to the southwest with a distant view of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

[dendro80]

Silverfallet och Silverströmmen. ❤️

Walking about and enjoying the nature at Björkliden. Peace of mind and soul.

Silverfallet, Björkliden, Kirunas kommun, Norrbotten, Lappland, Sweden

[james-in-pace]

Beautiful illustration of leaves from Catskill Mountain trees - these can be found on the Mountain Top Arboretum https://www.mtarboretum.org/native-trees-gallery

[convexicalcrow]

mfw i realise I picked the build palette of a woodland mansion XD

also new storage room! guys I dig A LOT you don't even know. and now that i have mending on all my tools and armour (aside from my hat), i'll go set up one of the zombie spawners as an xp farm and switch the game to easy bc while breaking skulk for xp is fun, it's not as fun as a spawner farm, so. that's tomorrow's job, as well as moving all my stuff down here lol. :D

[themcphotographer]

pretty :3 mountain with some birch