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The pinkish scales of a shagbark hickory's twig-end terminal bud curled back to release a fountain-like burst of unfolding inner leaves. In the background are aspen trees, whose white bark reflects late-afternoon sun. Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata) and Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides), Owen Conservation Park, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, May 12, 2025
✨ Ge huset nytt liv! ✨
Med våra lasyr lyfter du fram träets naturliga skönhet och skyddar fasaden för framtiden. Oavsett om du vill ha en klassisk eller modern känsla finns det en nyans för varje husdröm.
Vilken kulör är din favorit?
Caparol kulör Aspen finns i färgkartan Lasyr.
✨ Ge huset nytt liv! ✨
Med våra lasyr lyfter du fram träets naturliga skönhet och skyddar fasaden för framtiden. Oavsett om du vill ha en klassisk eller modern känsla finns det en nyans för varje husdröm.
Vilken kulör är din favorit?
Caparol kulör Aspen finns i färgkartan Lasyr.
✨ Ge huset nytt liv! ✨
Med våra lasyr lyfter du fram träets naturliga skönhet och skyddar fasaden för framtiden. Oavsett om du vill ha en klassisk eller modern känsla finns det en nyans för varje husdröm.
Vilken kulör är din favorit?
Caparol kulör Aspen finns i färgkartan Lasyr.
With a fresh crew, a heavy load of sheep, and the #489 cut in as a rear end helper, #488 charges East out of Chama heading up the 4% of Cumbres Pass.
a typical element of the frisian landscape, the light under the trees is magic
leica m8, 28mm g-rokkor, 2 parts stitch pano
in explore 2025-05-11
Quaking aspen - populus tremuloides. With catkins. Small planted grove of quaking aspen in Milwaukee’s Riverwalk Commons. Along the east side of the Milwaukee River, north of St. Paul Ave. Early May 2025
Saltese Flats was once a thousand-acre lake that was partially drained around 1900 for timothy hay agriculture. The area was named after Chief Andrew Seltice of the Coeur d'Alene tribe who lived in a home on the west side of the original lake.
Spokane County purchased 126 acres with the goal of restoring the wetlands for water capture/cleansing & for wildlife.
1942
Explore May 6, 2925
As Aspen is typically late to come into leaf it stands out grey contrasting well with the young green foliage of birch and willow and darker green of Scots pine.
At the bottom of the cover of a publication published in 2004 by Forestry Commission Scotland ' A new Dawn for Restoration on the Forestry Commission Estate in Scotland'
a logo appears with the upbeat message 'BIODIVERSITY Do a little-change a lot'. The same logo is slipped in at the bottom of the title page that includes the publication's authors George F Peterken and Alan W Stevenson.
Glenmore Forest Strathspey is discussed on page 57 & page 58 of this now difficult to find publication. On page 57 there is a photo credited to the well known Nature photographer Laurie Campbell. This is captioned a view east over Glenmore towards Ryvoan pass (behind the old granny pine). The caption continues
" All of this view is being restored to Caledonian pine forest as part of a major project, which commenced in 1991.
Citing "(Mowle 1979)" The opening line under the heading Glenmore Forest Strathspey states "During the 18th Century this was described as the finest native pinewood in Scotland, but by 1978 the area of old-growth native pine stands was not much larger than the area of forest roads (129ha)".
On the next Page (58 in the publication) the section on Glenmore Forest has 5 photos including one undated rather panoramic view credited to Niall Benvie for which the caption indicates "The strategic link between Glenmore and Abernethy forests is now starting to show signs of woodland regeneration,
On 4 April 2025 ( coinciding with World Dawn Chorus Day & the Day of the Nethybridge ' Spring Gathering') this photo taken along with some others (in part an attempt to document recent woodland regeneration into largely heather dominated moorland around the Pass of Ryvoan at Glenmore).
An area in the Pass of Ryvan for a period was leased from the Forestry Commission as a Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve. The expiry of the 21 year lease which was not renewed marked the start of a chapter during which the Scottish Wildlife Trust had held no nature reserves in the district of Badenoch & Strathspey However in contrast another larger environmental NGO (The RSPB. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) today owns and manages a major reserve at Abernethy that includes land adjacent to Glenmore reached through the Pass of Ryvoan.
In 2018 th Centre for Conservation Science Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scotland published a 360 page illustrated volume by Ron W Summers: 'Abernethy Forest the history and ecology of an Old Scottish Pinewood.
