#Carrizo Plain National Monument

[sitting-on-me-bum]

2023 might be the year! The abundance of rain in California this winter has set the stage for a massive superbloom this spring—one that would blanket national and state parks in wildflowers (like Carrizo Plain National Monument, above, during the 2019 bloom).

PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN BENTTINEN

#justin benttinen #photographer #national geographic #fields of flowers #wildflowers #flower photography #superbloom #carrizo plain national monument #california #nature

[lionfloss]

Carrizo Plain National Monument

#Carrizo Plain National Monument #nature #photography #green #plants #landscape #pink #flowers #yellow #wildflowers #hills #mountains #nature photography

[bala5]

#Carrizo Plain National Monument #Super bloom #April 2023 @ Highway 58 and 7 mile Rd

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:

Conservation groups today announced a legal agreement securing the permanent closure and restoration of 11 long-dormant oil wells inside the Carrizo Plain National Monument, a unique landscape in central California famous for its vibrant springtime wildflower displays and rare wildlife.

The agreement also formalizes the expiration of the Trump administration’s approval of a new oil well and pipeline in the national monument without any development.

“This agreement forges a new era for the Carrizo Plain National Monument and begins what we hope will be a complete phase-out of oil drilling in this protected area,” said ForestWatch Executive Director Jeff Kuyper. “The Biden administration did the right thing in agreeing to take these important first steps toward restoring this treasured landscape.”

In 2020 Los Padres ForestWatch and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management after the agency approved a permit for a new well and repair or replacement of a dilapidated pipeline.

The lawsuit said the proposed fossil fuel extraction would harm threatened and endangered wildlife and mar scenic views, violating the monument’s resource-management plan, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. It was the first new oil well approved in Carrizo Plain National Monument since it was established in 2001.

#Carrizo Plain National Monument #California #oil wells

[letstakeawalk]

I unfortunately couldn’t get to Carrizo Plain National Monument at the height of its late March/early April super bloom, but plenty of wildflowers were still surging a mile up around Caliente Mountain where the cooler temperatures keep the blooms alive.

Let’s go see some flowers!

After the blooms dry up, this is what the plains become! The San Andreas fault is just out of sight directly behind me.

#hiking #nature photography #california #wildflowers #carrizo plain national monument

[bones-n-bookles]

Photos from Carrizo Plain National Monument and the road out from it :)

#hike #hiking #kinda lol we mainly drove around but did explore a few spots more #LOTS of lizards but didnt photgraph any #also the most WRATHFUL #and i mean WRATHFUL. gopher snake ive ever met omfg #german shepherd #california #central california #carrizo plain #carrizo plain national monument #national monument #home

[happythoughthall]

#super bloom #carrizo plain national monument #poppy flower #nature

[promontoryranger]

Spring!

What does spring mean to me? That’s the question posed by Sofia of Photographias in this week’s Lens-Artists Photography Challenge. For me, spring equals two things:  road tripping and wildflowers. Ajo Lilies in Anza Borrego State Park This way of celebrating spring started for me when I used to work winters as a ranger in Death Valley National Park. There, I fell in love with the desert spring…

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#Anza Borrego State Park #breakup #California #Canada #Carrizo Plain National Monument #Death Valley National Park #Desert #desert wildflowers #flowers #Joshua Tree National Park #Kluane National Park #Lens Artists Photo Challenge #Lens-Artists #Lens-Artists Challenge #lilies #National Monuments #National Parks #Oregon #Siskiyou Mountains #spring #wildflowers #wildlife #Wrangell-St. Elias National Park #yukon

[slolane]

Carrizo twilight by Angela Henderson

#Carrizo Plain National Monument #Carrizo #wildflowers #flickr #mine

[new--tomorrows]

Pronghorn on Carrizo Plain National Monument, California. 11 December 2021.

#pronghorn #Carrizo Plain National Monument #California

[sitting-on-me-bum]

An explosion of wildflower species appears to paint Temblor Range, a mountain range that rises from the east side of the San Andreas fault at Carrizo Plain national monument near Santa Margarita, California, US. Spectacular wildflower blooms, referred to by some as a superbloom, are occurring across much of California following a historically wet season that drove 31 atmospheric river storms through the region, resulting in widespread flooding and record snow depths in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The extreme weather comes after years of record drought for most of the state

Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images

#david mcnew #photographer #getty images #wildflowers #aerial photography #temblor range #san andreas fault #carrizo plain national monument #santa margarita #california #nature

[lionfloss]

Carrizo Plains National Monument

#nature #naturecore #mountains #plains #photography #Carrizo Plains National Monument #flowers #hills #yellow #green #sky #blue #clouds #fields #meadow #wild flowers #1k

[kvetchlandia]

Jeff Pott     Wildflowers, Soda Lake Road, Carrizo Plain National Monument, CA     2023

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Super Bloom in Carrizo Plain National Monument, California [1600x2000][OC]

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Saying farewell to a Saturday with this majestic sunset over a field of wildflowers at Carrizo Plain National Monument. :: [U.S. Department of the Interior] ::  Photo by Raghuveer Makala

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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” 

— Rachel Carson

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“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”

― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits

#Rachel Carson #Raghuveer Makala #Tony Hillerman #U.S.Department of the Interior #quotes #walk in beauty #nature #the earth

[catsynth-express]

And a more abstract moment from Carrizo Plain National Monument (at Carrizo Plain National Monument) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqY6NHHP_Mt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=