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Views of wetlands along the boardwalk in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Views of wetlands along the boardwalk in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Mountain vistas viewed from Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park
Vista in Shenandoah National Park
Views of wetlands along the boardwalk in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Hiking to Annapolis Rocks in Western Maryland via Appalachian Trail
View along Appalachian Trail
Overlooking valleys along Skyline Drive, in Shenandoah National Park. Air quality and visibility are key features of this park, are threatened by pollutants including particulates. Vigilant monitoring is required to identify incipient air pollution conditions.
Vista from Skyline Drive
Views of wetlands along the boardwalk in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Views of wetlands along the boardwalk in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Views of wetlands along the boardwalk in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Underbrush in this portion of Big Branch Marsh is cleared by burning, which favors grass development. Scorch marks left from the fires can be seen on the lower areas of the tree trunks.
Burn management
Underbrush in this portion of Big Branch Marsh is cleared by burning, which favors grass development. Scorch marks left from the fires can be seen on the lower areas of the tree trunks.
Burn management
Lilly pads in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Lilly pads
Mountain vistas viewed from Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah
Flowering grasses in Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
Flowering grasses
Hiking to Annapolis Rocks in Western Maryland via Appalachian Trail
Annapolis Rocks
Shenandoah National Park has a wide variety of recreation options, including camping, hiking, and fishing.
(...)ey Ridge Visitor Center
Forest ground cover in fall.
Fall leaves
The tree-lined Skyline Drive wends through Shenandoah National Park along mountain ridges, providing opportunities to see expansive vistas as well as hardwood forests.
Tree-lined Skyline Drive
The road up the volcano Haleakala on Maui traverses an eerie barren landscape, some of which is above the cloudline
Road up Haleakala
Ideal conditions required for growth of any particular organism vary over scales of time and space. This occurs because the success of a habitat and associated organisms are dependent on a variety of factors. By protecting several replicates of similar habitats in the system, along an environmental gradient, the likelihood increases that at least one habitat will be healthy in any particular year. The life cycle of lobsters shows that just one species needs many connected habitats to survive and reproduce.
Habitat patchwork
One approach to the development of better coastal and marine policy and management is the concept of marine managed areas (MMAs). A MMA is an area of ocean, or combination of land and ocean, where human activities are managed toward common goals. MMAs are a form of ecosystem-based management, where all elements of a particular system are considered together. When the principles of a marine managed area are fully implemented, the resulting benefits to both the environment and humans can be optimized.
Marine managed areas
Bank erosion can lead to trees overhanging creeks and rivers.
Overhanging tree
A poultry farm just beyond wetlands adjascent to Little Monie Creek, near the Monie Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Poultry farm along Little Monie Creek
Forest and wetlands along Monie Creek.
Monie Creek
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