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Amazing Textures - High resolution textures for 3D modelling Landstory : Landscape Architecture/Planning/Community Design Prior to 1978, the Marion Dragline, the largest coal extraction dragline in the world, operated at Interlake. Flash forward just 5 years and abandoned Interlake had already become an established local hotspot for ORV users, hunters, fisherman, horseback riders, and trappers...just to name a few. In 1999, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) purchased the +3500 acres from the Interlake Foundation. 3,500 acre former surface mine owned by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Former uses included off-roading, equestrian, hunting and fishing Recommendations to enhance the property, encourage greater regional participation and provide resource management Extensive site analysis, public and user input and programming.

Landscape Architecture « Jacques Abelman, Celine Baumann (celinebaumann.tumblr.com), YukaYoshida The Wildpoints strategy creates a new form of urban green by actively seeking out new places for nature to colonize the city. The end result of found nature and design interventions adds up to an urban biodiversity network. Discovering Wildpoints The small presence of uninvited nature in the city – where wild grasses and plants come up through the cracks, providing food and shelter for insects, birds, and other small urban animals, are almost never created intentionally. These sites are reservoirs of genetic diversity as well as habitats for uncounted species. What is biodiversity in the city? Biodiversity can have many interpretations. We define biodiversity in the city as the network of urban biotopes where indigenous species of plants and animals thrive, and natural ecological processes occur with or without the influence of humans. 4 New Biotopes for Urban Sites Results and Benefits

10 High-Quality Free Tree Bark Textures In this set, you’ll find 10 high-resolution and large-scale tree bark texture stock images. They have a very liberal Creative Commons license so that you can use them in any manner you choose, whether it’s personal or commercial. Since they’re all 2,896px by 1,944px in size, they’re big and can be rescaled down for many uses. Preview Click on the image or title that you’re interested in so that you can view various sizes of the image on its Flickr page. Tree Bark Texture 01 Tree Bark Texture 02 Tree Bark Texture 03 Tree Bark Texture 04 Tree Bark Texture 05 Tree Bark Texture 06 Tree Bark Texture 07 Tree Bark Texture 08 Tree Bark Texture 09 Tree Bark Texture 10 Licensing Details The above works featured here and in the Tree Barks Textures set are licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for personal and/or commercial purposes. The Creative Commons license requires you to "attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor". Related Content About the Author

Free High Resolution Wood Textures In this texture pack, you will find 7 large-scale, high resolution (1448 x 972 pixels) textures that are available to you for free for any personal or commercial purpose, distributed under the GNU General Public License. The only thing you may not do is to distribute and sell them without prior permission. Preview Clicking on each image will direct you to their Flickr download page where you can get them in various sizes. Alternatively, please feel free to browse the Six Revisions Wood Textures set on Flickr or download the whole set (link at the bottom of this page). Wood Texture 01 (file name: sr_wood_texture_01.jpg) Wood Texture 02 (file name: sr_wood_texture_02.jpg) Wood Texture 03 (file name: sr_wood_texture_03.jpg) Wood Texture 04 (file name: sr_wood_texture_04.jpg) Wood Texture 05 (file name: sr_wood_texture_05.jpg) Wood Texture 06 (file name: sr_wood_texture_06.jpg) Wood Texture 07 (file name: sr_wood_texture_07.jpg) Got Suggestions? Download the whole set Related content

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