Our beautiful American Earth. Let's not waste it.
The American earth is a great and beautiful place. We have always cared for it and protected it pretty well. Let's not waste it all now. This blog is about the beauty of the American earth. It is mainly a picture book of the American Earth and where it is headed in the near and …
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In Yellowstone National Park, warming is causing rapid changes throughout the Park. In the US, Yellowstone in the only place where you can still see buffalo and wolves in great numbers. Without Yellowstone its likely that both of these species would have become extinct by now, especially the wolves. Trumpeter Swans and Grizzly bears also …
The Land of Enchantment is a phase often used in New Mexico tourist advertising. It's mostly just a corny and sentimental advertising phrase, but if you live here long enough the enchantment of this place does sneak up on you once in awhile. Highway near Tent Rocks National Monument in the Jemez Mountains near Albuquerque …
In July, temperatures in Alaska were as high as 90 degrees Fahrenheit; seals and other animals are inexplicably dying, and the once-dependable sea ice is long gone from the shores. Every year climate change brings new evidence that the Arctic, the antarctic and Alaska are changing more rapidly that the temperate areas of the world. …
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Schwabackers landing on a clear day, Snake River in Teton National Park in Wyoming Wildflowers on Teton Pass, Teton National Park in Wyoming White Columbins on Teton Pass, Teton National Park in Wyoming Teton dawn panorama, Teton National Park in Wyoming Sticky Geraniums on Teton Pass, Teton National Park in Wyoming Wildflowers on a rainy …
White foam and brown sand. Pacifica California Surf, Rocks and Beach, Pacifica California Foggy beach, Pacifica California Pacifica afternoon beach at high tide. Pacifica California Pink sunset surf, Pacifica California Golden Gate near San Francisco Shore birds, Pacifica California Sea Gull on the San Francisco Ferry
I first started hiking and backpacking in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming some fifty years ago. As I mentioned in a previous article about how Pine beetles are devastating pines in the American west, the two real changes I have seen in the Winds over the years have been that the pines are beginning …
Upstate New York is full of old barns and reminders of better days. Still it is a glorious and nostalgic rural countryside. Barn before storm All American Farm Barn and Silo Barns and Blue Sky Red Barn and dandelions Red barn in green and yellow fields Better Days
