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Summer Fantacy - 0855 by J & W Photography
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Facebook | FAA Taken on the first day at dusk during our brief weekend trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The glow after sunset created a dreamy atmosphere which was enhanced by the colorful wild flowers in the Cades Cove.
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Kaziranga National Park, situated in the northeastern state of Assam, India, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its rich. The park, which hosts two-thirds of the world's biodiversity,
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I was carpooling with Walt Disney and he claimed that Disneyland was the greatest American creation ever and got highly offended when I suggested that the national parks system was just as great.
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If you can recognize how much of North America was cultivated over thousands of years by indigenous people, then you also need to recognize that a significant chunk of "wilderness" here is dependent on human intervention to thrive.
There are countless plants and fungi, from mushrooms to grasses to trees, that have been proven to do best when regularly harvested, whether it's because harvest makes them release seeds or clears away dead growth or provides more light to younger plants, cultivation means that harvesting is often to the benefit of the plant.
Which means that you also have to recognize that locking those plants away from people, even with the best intentions, can actually do horrible damage to their populations and to existing ecosystems.
There isn't an easy solution to this problem. Proper foraging isn't something that most people are taught anymore and many of these plants do not have significant enough populations right now to survive excessive harvest.
But going forward, as we work on restoring ecosystems and helping our planet (and our relationships to the land) heal, then we need to acknowledge that humans and nature are not separate entities and that we've always been dependent on each other.
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painted peaks; death valley, california
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Seagull Nebula Over Pinnacles National Park
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Mount Rainier National Park / USA (by Raymond Stiehl).
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