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Cultivating stories from the ground up.

Parks/Natural Areas

A Low Impact Woodland Home. Little eco footprints: eco play. I stumbled across a pile of plastic toys dumped in bushland a while back.

Little eco footprints: eco play

The scene clearly illustrates one of the problems with cheap plastic toys. They never ever go away. Design matters curated collections of air plants by tohold. Yellowstone Volcano: Is "the Beast" Building to a Violent Tantrum? StandardNET August 30, 2001 When the volcano in Yellowstone National Park blew 6,400 centuries ago, it obliterated a mountain range, felled herds of prehistoric camels hundreds of miles away and left a smoking hole in the ground the size of the Los Angeles Basin.

Yellowstone Volcano: Is "the Beast" Building to a Violent Tantrum?

Modern Yellowstone doesn't dwell on its cataclysmic past—or its potential for another monster eruption. Rangers tell people to keep their distance from bison and steaming geysers. But there are no signs, aside from nature's own bubbling mud pots and geysers, that visitors are wandering through the caldera of one of the largest active volcanoes in the world. Dendrology at Virginia Tech. Review the Basics of tree ID - View a slideshow to learn about ID tools (or pdf) Dichotomous Keys Figure out your unknown by clicking on the button that best describes it.

Dendrology at Virginia Tech

A table will list the possible matches, with links to our tree fact sheets. If a picture exactly matches your leaf, clicking on the picture will take you directly to a fact sheet for that species. Earth-Touch.com. Animals can tell right from wrong. Snowflakes and Snow Crystals. Environmental Education.