Foreground is reeds, a glimpse of the lake and the forest on the other side, sky is light blue and misty giving an atmosphere of stillness, pensive

Early morning mist

#WestCoastKin #nature #photography #easter #stillness #quietplace #lake #wilderness

A cooperative model poising for the photographer.

#StrikeAPose #Voguing
#RedWingedBlackbird

#birds #birdphotography #portrait #Blackbird #photography #art #ECK #fotografia #Fotografie #wildlifephotography #birdoftheday #naturephotography #PNW #wilderness #nature #blueskyartshow

Lake Isabelle, Indian Peaks Wilderness an area managed and protected by the US Forest Service, what we are going. to lose under trump. #hiking #mountains #USforestservice #wilderness #nature #landscape

Hard Rock Cafe
#CoffeeSky #boulderfieldbrew
#microgrind #wilderness #life

Travel advice | Primary Forests

Have you ever thought about exploring #enchanting, unspoilt places whilst on #holiday? In #Romania, you can. Here, we’ll tell you where to find these little slices of paradise and how to get there… #forest #wilderness #experience
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Woman walking on a path through a rocky, forested landscape.

By: Jefferson Sees

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📸 Canon, EOS R6m2
19.0mm ƒ/5.6
1/400s
ISO 400

#portrait #people #jeans #mountainLandscape #backpack #nationalPark #wilderness #pineTrees

A desert landscape taken by means of phone imaging from a place called Skunk Ridge that lies on the furthest north end of Utah's Cedar Mountains. The scene overlooks some dry desert scrub/plant growth, and a nearby row of very rugged & dark rocks. Beyond that is a broad, dry valley called Puddle Valley. The low-lying Grassy Mountains provide us with a deep blue & purple horizon. We are looking roughly west northwest in direction.

Here, we are looking southward from a place called Skunk Ridge, again, towards the northern end of Utah's Cedar Mountains. There's dry desert scrub brush & grasses in front of part of this very rough, rocky ridge. The mountains are just beyond the rugged rocks. Off in the distance are Ripple Valley & a very faint Granite Peak, on the horizon.

-Looking north across a winding, rocky road leading slowly down & northeast-ward, we see the north end of Utah's Lakeside Mountains. It's a rugged scene of desert scrub and rocks. This is also a view of the very northern end of Skull Valley, and the arc of a branch of the Union Pacific Railroad can faintly be seen just beyond the disappearing dirt road. This branch of railroad tracks leads to some mining operations up in the mountains. Again, we are on top of Skunk Ridge at the northern end of the Cedar Mountains. It's dry & windy.

A few old #phonetography #mobilephotography #Scape #landscape #desert #landscapes of a #favorite #playground of ours #ECK #EastCoastKin #desertscape #MiddleOfNowhere #arid #GreatBasin #WestCoastKin #wanderlust #wilderness #BlueskyPhotography #NoFences #mood #PhotographersOfBluesky Details in AltText

Preserving the path: how BWAC volunteers maintain 200 miles of wilderness The Boundary Waters offers numerous hiking trails that draw backpackers to beautiful, remote sections along wilderness lakes. While the trails are rustic, multiple trail-clearing crews manage them in partnership with the USFS–Superior National Forest. One of those volunteer groups, the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee, recently posted upcoming trail-clearing opportunities. We also asked them about improvements made over the past year and what volunteers can expect when they sign up. Miles of wilderness trail Throughout the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, there are about 200 miles of hiking trails. Some are short and take only an hour or so to explore, while others are multi-day adventures. They are wild and remote, covering all parts of the almost 1.1 million-acre wilderness. Volunteers work with crew leaders provided by the BWAC and train to use clearing tools such as saws, trowels, shovels, and clippers. Thanks to a collaboration between the USFS-Superior National Forest (SNF) and multiple volunteer groups, trail-clearing events take place throughout the spring, summer, and fall. The Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (BWAC) is one of the groups whose volunteer trail-clearing trips will start soon. The BWAC takes groups of up to nine people out to clear trails on day, weekend, or...

Preserving the path: how BWAC volunteers maintain 200 miles of wilderness
->Quetico Superior Wilderness News | More on "Boundary Waters wilderness trail volunteers" at BigEarthData.ai | #Forest #Wilderness

Opinion: Safeguarding the Roadless Rule saves the Tongass Forest For generations, the Organized Village of Kake and other Southeast Alaska tribes have been stewards of the Tongass National Forest, the largest temperate rainforest in the world. This is not just land; the forest is our heritage and way of life. Its salmon-spawning streams and animals sustain our people. The forest’s old growth trees store more carbon than they release, making the Tongass the nation’s greatest natural climate defense. It is our sacred home. Yet this irreplaceable ecosystem faces a threat. The Trump administration is attempting to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a policy that for over 25 years has safeguarded nearly 58 million acres of national forests. The administration is proposing to strip protections from 44.7 million acres of ancestral homelands, including the Tongass National Forest. This is not just bad policy; it is a direct violation of Tribal treaty rights, trust and federal law. The Roadless Rule is simple and effective. It prevents destructive road building and industrial scale logging in remote forest areas while preserving access for recreation, subsistence and cultural practices. It is a symbol of American conservation, and repealing this critical policy would cause irreversible damage by destroying ecosystems, fragmenting habitats, increasing the...

Opinion: Safeguarding the Roadless Rule saves the Tongass Forest
->Anchorage Daily News | More on "Tongass Forest roadless rule protection" at BigEarthData.ai | #Wilderness #TongassForest

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#free #shortstory #transformation #wilderness #historicalfiction #hauntedwoods #cypressswamp

#Nikon D70
#landscape #snowcapped #wilderness #nature #mountains #photography

#phenology The TURKEY VULTURES are back! (Cathartes aura)..l #WALLOWAS #OREGON

I have 6 mature birds circling now
overhead…..at 1330m…they “know” me,
at least, that’s what I TELL myself…
They follow me while I’m out running…
I “talk” to them with my bone whistle.

#foto WIKIPEDIA #avian #wilderness

Complex terrain, with different layers showing different colors. A patch of shrubs and a small tree in the foreground just beneath a flat-topped boulder. In the middle a series of mudstone mounds, heavily eroded, with a flat capstone at upper right. The background cliffs rise steeply toward a clear blue sky.

'Neath the ramparts: undisclosed badlands locality, NW New Mexico

#badlands #erosion #geology #wilderness #backofbeyond #landscapephotography #hiking #bluesky #newmexico

Pine trees on white snow with blue shadows in sunlight

On blue paths of shadows

Kaunispää, Sápmi, Lapland

#WhiteReindeer #arctic #WhenLightHurts #sky #wilderness #sunlight #shadows #OnBluePathsOfShadows #snow #trees #SkyAndEarth #travel #Kaunispää #Saariselkä #Ivalo #Inari #Sápmi #Lapland #scape #snowscape #nature #chatgpt

Image Credit: Elina Sazonova
#Alpine #crest #pebble #coniferous
#autumn #mountainscape #river
#cliff #foliage #outdoorspace
#wilderness #horizon #woods

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Neo Browser created Desktop Background Image - Animals & Wildlife
#wildlife #leopard #nature #animal #safari #himalayas #snow #predator #majestic #wilderness #cat #mountain #sunset #hd #epic
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Happy National Poetry Month. Purchase Rush of Wingspan and receive a second wonderful poetry collection for free. #poetry #nature #music #birds #lovepoems #wilderness #forests

'Drill baby drill': Trump opens wilderness to big energy From the majestic valleys of the Grand Canyon to the granite peaks of the Yosemite national park and ancient trees of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, US President Donald Trump has pledged to make America's federal nature reserves "beautiful again." National parks make up one part of over 600 million acres (243 million hectares) of US public lands that span forests, deserts, waterways and wildlife refuges. "These include some of the most ecologically intact and biodiverse lands in the country," said Jenny Rowland-Shea, who directs public lands policy at the Washington-based think tank, Center for American Progress. But critics say these landscapes are threatened by steep budget cuts and environmental rollbacks that open them to resource extraction. In May 2025, for example, the Trump administration proposed cutting nearly $1 billion (€860 million) from the National Park Service budget — a reduction that park advocates warn could force hundreds of sites to close or sharply scale back services. For Rowland-Shea, the weakening of the National Park Service and its conservation mission "under the guise of 'government efficiency' has only made parks and public lands less safe, less clean, less accessible, and more crowded than ever before." Two months after announcing the cuts,...

'Drill baby drill': Trump opens wilderness to big energy
->Deutsche Welle | More info at BigEarthData.ai | #TrumpFascism #Forest #NoDecency #Wilderness

Rocks & Grass South Fork Stanislaus Sierra Nevada
#Scape #Art #weareroamers #Landscape #wilderness #solitude #Photography #Nature #PhotographersofBluesky #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #TheWildImages #blueskyartshow #landscapephotography #river

Minnesota! Boundary Waters Wilderness in Danger! "Americans want public lands protected, but Trump and the GOP want profit." via More Perfect Union youtu.be/lEvDnuglCKw?...
#Minnesota #BoundaryWaters #SuperiorNationalForest #wilderness #GOP #publiclands #mining #foreign #corporations #Share

#maisema #maisemavalokuvaus #erämaa #lappi #landscape #landscapephotography #wilderness #lapland

Surtsey: A Case Study in “Self-Willed Land” Dave Foreman often reminded us that “wilderness” means “self-willed land” — land where natural processes are left alone to unfold as they will. But is

Dave Foreman often reminded us that “wilderness” means “self-willed land” — land where natural processes are left alone to unfold as they will. But is this an unattainable ideal? As defenders of #wilderness, we are all too familiar with the objection that nowhere on Earth is “pristine” anymore.

Subaru Unveils the 2027 Forester Wilderness Hybrid SUV with Enhanced Off-Road Features Subaru's all-new 2027 Forester Wilderness Hybrid showcases enhanced off-road capabilities and improved fuel efficiency, making it a versatile choice for adventure enthusiasts.

Subaru Unveils the 2027 Forester Wilderness Hybrid SUV with Enhanced Off-Road Features #United_States #Subaru #Camden #Forester #Wilderness

📹This #IndieAnimatic really is WHOLESOME! Gives you a thought about if there is more out there than your dull life!🌲
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#NoAISlop #NoAIAnimatic #HumanMadeAnimatic #SupportIndieAnimation #InideAnimation #GeekCulture #NerdCulture #PopCulture #Nature #Wilderness #BestFriends

Snowy landscape in bright sunlight under a blue sky.

When light hurts

Kaunispää, Sápmi, Lapland

#WhiteReindeer #arctic #WhenLightHurts #sky #wilderness #sunlight #blue #snow #trees #SkyAndEarth #travel #Kaunispää #Saariselkä #Ivalo #Inari #Sápmi #Lapland #scape #snowscape #nature #chatgpt

For Wilderness to Remain Wild, It Must Remain Unmanipulated By Kevin Proescholdt, Wilderness Watch A recent opinion article by a U.S. Forest Service research fellow supporting manipulating designated Wilderness areas showed a profound misunderstanding about Wilderness, its history, its stewardship policies, and the Wilderness Act itself. The author’s proposed solution would result in the loss of the very quality for which Congress designated Wildernesses: their wildness. The author suggests that we use active management interventions and manager-ignited fire in Wilderness to counter the impacts of climate change and to replicate Indigenous burning practices. In doing so, it reflects an all-too-common bias within the federal land management agencies for active management activities and projects. It also reflects a similar all-too-common hubris and arrogance in those same federal agencies that they know what’s best for Wilderness, that their choices for desired future conditions in Wilderness should take precedence over Nature’s choices. The proposal flies in the face of wilderness policy, history, and the provisions of the 1964 Wilderness Act itself. The one central purpose of the Wilderness Act, its prime directive if you will, is to preserve wilderness character, an area’s wildness. In fact, the Wilderness Act is so emphatic about that point that it says it twice: “[E]ach agency administering...

For Wilderness to Remain Wild, It Must Remain Unmanipulated
->The Wildlife News | More on "Wilderness management climate change debate" at BigEarthData.ai | #Wilderness #Forest

Not yet in its adult breeding plumage, the Great Blue Heron was hunting the wetlands at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Autoroute for frogs!

#bird #birdwatching #pnw #wilderness #birdphotography #ornithology #ornithologie #birds #birding #ECK #Wildlife #nature #RidgefieldWA #wildlifephotography

Oddly shaped, light-toned caprock sits atop a broad pedestal of siltstone, which is highly weathered and creviced. The caprock can be viewed as a young sauropod on its back with snout and legs skyward and its tail hanging over the pedestal at left. The sky is featureless. Canon 6D, f/8, 39mm

The sacrifice: Lybrook badlands, NW New Mexico

#rockintuesday #eck #blackandwhite #classicmono #landscapephotography #rockformation #badlands #newmexico #desert #hiking #wilderness

Image Credit: Marek Piwnicki
#breathtaking #fromafistance
#mountainscape #spectacularpeak #fog #outdoor #wilderness
#NorthernEurope
#Lofoten #Norway

Along the primitive road into Kofa National Wildlife Area and heading towards their wilderness areas near Quartzite in southwest #Arizona, for #RockinTuesday and #ColorADay #BlueTue.

#EastCoastKin #Landscapephotography #travel #wilderness #hiking #desert