#swamp lake

[spiritheyregone]

"A swamp lake in Lauhanvuori National Park, Isojoki, Finland." (Wikipedia)

#archive #archiving #web archive #nature #trees #forest #wetland #wetlands #swamp #swamp lake #lake #pond

[expressions-of-nature]

Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada by Marian Dragiev

#landscape #lake #nature #sunrise #dawn #mist #fog #trees #swamp #naturecore #canada #travel #outdoors #curators on tumblr #uploads

[lionfloss]

Charleston Magnolia Gardens

#nature #photography #green #plants #trees #water #landscape #pink #lake #garden #flowers #woods #swamp #flora #moss #forest #nature photography #Aesthetic #cottagecore #curators on tumblr

[liminalghosts]

Loki Highlock

#landscape photography #nature photography #dark nature #swamp #lake #trees #dark aesthetic #lensblr #eerie #curators on tumblr

[vertigoartgore]

Swamp Thing by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben.

#swamp thing #nature #beauty #vertigo #dc comics #alan moore #stephen bissette #john totleben #alec holland #swamp #flowers #monster #elemental #bird #lake #john constantine #80's #1980s

[manifestmoons]

Welcome to manifestmoons

Magical water properties. A part of Grimoire Basics Volume 3

#moon water #rain water #sea water #magical water properties #lake water #witchcraft basics #beginner witch #river water #spring water #storm water #dew water #swamp water #sun water #snow water #witches of tumblr #grimoire pages #witchblr #witch #green witch #witchcraft #earth witch #nature witch #witch blog #witch post #witches #witch community #art #witch art #pagan art #manifestmoons

[ashinaisshin]

Arriving at Anor Londo

#dark souls #dark souls remastered #gamingedit #dailygaming #dsedit #ds1edit #edit:all #edit:gif #damn what a glorious payoff after curse sewers and poison swamps #tho i still think its a bad idea to put the extremely cursed status effect areas in early(ish) game and i’ll die on that hill #imagine having to go through subterranean shunning grounds and lake of rot in order to access leyndell in er #it works well with ds' narrative but oh god 💀💀

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Lady of the Lake by Dominik Mayer

#art #illustration #digital art #fantasy #mythology #trees #forest #swamp #lady of the lake

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Early spring at Montrose Point, Chicago

#hermit thrush #swamp sparrow #brown thrasher #eastern chipmunk #birds #chipmunks #spring #flowers #lighthouses #lake michigan #boats #my photos #my places

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Maysozoic day 15:

A school of beelzebuffo swim away slowly from a gar who is already satiated

#tadpole #far #tadpoles #paleoart #fish #gar #paleontology #palaeontology #swamp #lily pad #lilypad #madagascar #prehistoric #frog #amphibian #Maysozoic #water lake #I summon the other blogs

[green-algae]

6/23/23, very rainy day at a local lake in Northern VA.

#nature #places #nature log #virginia #forest #river #northern virginia #lake #swamp #summer #rain

[mim70]

Kokkorevo, Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad rg., Russia

#ladoga #ladoga lake #nature #landscape #naturephotography #kokkorevo #vsevolozhsk #leningrad oblast #leningradskayaoblast #leningradskaja oblast #leningrad rg #russia #fall #autumn #swamp

[expressions-of-nature]

by Jackie06

#landscape #nature #lake #swamp #bayou #louisiana #plants #trees #moss #naturecore #curators on tumblr #uploads

[lionfloss]

By Samantha Cavet

#nature #art #forest #woods #green #water #pond #lake #lime green #lily pads #trees #plants #landscapes #photography #swamp #1k

[fatehbaz]

At the intersection of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, the corn monoculture melts away to reveal green rolling hills and deep gorges. The lush forest is pockmarked by steep-banked ponds, carved out by retreating glaciers 10,000 years ago. Standing waist-deep in a forest pool, Megan Seymour scans the shrubby banks with binoculars. A slight change in colour and texture spotted in the tangled buttonbush swamp reveals her quarry: a thick, glossy, copperbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta). [...]

The copperbelly water snake – named for its tangerine-orange underside – inhabited what was one of the largest wetland areas in North America.

Roughly the size of Connecticut and stretching from Fort Wayne in Indiana across much of north-west Ohio, the Great Black Swamp was home to elk, wolves, mountain lions and black bears.

In the mid-19th century, farmers began to clear the trees and drain the swamp to access the fertile soil hidden beneath the water. In just five decades, the Great Black Swamp was dry.

Today, the copperbelly water snake lays claim to just 50 sq km (20 sq miles) of remnant swamp forest in the tri-state area – slightly smaller than Manhattan Island.

Though the exact number of the reptiles is not known, experts estimate that fewer than 100 individuals, possibly as few as 40, remain.

“I think they will be gone within 20 years,” says [...] a land steward with the Nature Conservancy [...]. He believes saving the copperbelly water snake is essential to the region’s ecology because it is “an umbrella species” [...] for dozens of other declining species that rely on the swamp forest, including the rare bobolink blackbird and the checkerspot butterfly. When Seymour began searching for copperbelly water snakes in spring 2021, no one had seen one alive in the wild in almost three years. She spent more than 180 hours combing through the wetlands historically inhabited by the species but found none. [...]

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All content above, images, caption, and text published by: Ryan Wagner. “‘They aren’t mean and they aren’t trying to get you’: saving the copperbelly water snake.” The Guardian. 14 February 2023. [All photos published with this story were also taken by Ryan Wagner. Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks added by me.]

For reference, here’s the distribution range of the copperbelly water snake:

And here, what was once the Great Black Swamp:

Snake, endemic species unique to Great Lakes region and flooded prairies of the “Prairie Peninsula,” nearly extinct.

#extinction #endemic species #great lakes #prairie #go check out the distribution map for the Kirtlands snake and see how it also is endemic to limited wetlands in Illinois Indiana and Ohio #Kirtlands snake is a crayfish specialist that lives in crustacean burrow systems in flooded prairies #also the eastern massasauga aka the miniature swamp rattlesnake also uses crayfish burrows and limited to wetlands of great lakes region

[mynocturnality]

Cypress Swamp, New Orleans, Louisiana

| Artist: Vincent Baudoin

Watercore month on @mynocturnality

#mynocturnality #watercore #swamp #nature #nature photography #photography #aesthetics #dark aesthetics #aestethic #lake #naturecore #Beauty in Nature #ambience #moody