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pnwnativeplants · 2 months

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pamietniko · 9 months

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Cascadia ♥

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#film photography #analogue #35mm #photographers on tumblr #original photography #mountains #washington #cascadia #pnw #pnwonderland #pacific northwest #pnw native plants #nature photography #pnwcore #pnw vibes #naturecore #alpine #landscape photography #hiking

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organicmatter · 1 year

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Trillium ovatum - photo by me

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360nw · 1 year

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Foxglove - Lincoln County, Oregon - February 2017

#foxglove #oregon #lincoln county #pacific northwest #the great pnw #pnw #photographers on tumblr #pnwisbeautiful #pnw native plants #pnwonderland

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coyote-mints · 11 months

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Oregon sunshine (eriophyllum lanatum ‘Siskiyou’) in my garden

#native plants #wildflowers #flowers #yellow flowers #California native plants #pnw native plants #gardening with natives #growing native plants #california wildflowers #my plants #my pics #habitat gardening #pnw wildflowers #may #2023

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dreamweavindaisy · 11 months

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20x16 oil on canvas rainforest waterfall

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akitadruid · 3 months

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#plants #portrait #tiger lily #pnw native plants #pnw photography

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littlespacecaseart · 1 year

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Before and after two and a half hours of adding line weight Dx

#art #nature #pnw native plants #forest #ink #wip

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friskeebiz · 1 year

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#photography #hazy aesthetic #lighting #flowers #soft aesthetic #pnwlife #pnwadventures #pnw native plants #witches #cottage aesthetic #cottage witch #nature #naturfotografie

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shadesofmauve · 2 years

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There were years in college when I actively avoided learning more environmental science because I knew it’d be depressing and I already struggled. It meant ignoring part of my soul. Now I work in an environmental agency. I read the environmental news every day as part of my job.

Sometimes choosing joy is hard. But if you let despair eat you, you won’t do the rest of the work that so needs to be done, all the time, by all of us.

Choose to return the gift.

#Robin Wall Kimmerer #braiding sweetgrass #and a photo taken on my trail #achlys triphylla #my current favorite #pacific northwet #pnw native plants #native plants #restoration #conservation #hearts' work

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pnwnativeplants · 8 months

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From Ranier National Park (Tahoma)

Ever wonder why subalpine vegetation is a little more sensitive to footsteps than the plants on your trails at home? Why are park employees so passionate about keeping visitors on trail even when it appears that they’re just stepping on dirt? Let’s get down to the root of things…

The beautiful & diverse vegetation you see is adapted to survive the harsh subalpine environment and has a limited growing season. Small and long-lived, these plants grow in dense patches to withstand the elements, over centuries merging to form lush subalpine meadows. Because they are covered in snow 9 months of the year, subalpine plants have a short period to grow, flower, pollinate and produce seeds. Can you imagine the stress you’d be working under with that kind of timeline? Now add in a million people crowding you on top of that. What might seem like a harmless step off trail has a greater impact than you might think.

It takes ~40,000+ plants and 2+ months to restore a small fraction of the damage that's been done from stepping off trail. Even then, it will take well over 10 years for the landscape to start mirroring what it once was. In a less heavily visited environment the vegetation could reseed itself, but our plants rarely have the chance to try. The harsh reality is that, if you are off trail, you are stepping on fragile vegetation or a bare patch of ground where a meadow is trying to regrow beneath your feet. This trampling causes nutrient loss in the soil and erosion that permanently impacts plant growth.

An increase in visitation means more people enjoying the outdoors, but also a greater impact to our fragile meadows. It can be easy to overlook the extraordinary lives of the vegetation at Mount Rainier, but educating others on what makes these plants unique is an important step in preventing meadow damage and encouraging everyone to stay on trail. It doesn't take much to destroy a meadow but can take a lifetime to bring one back.

NPS Photos showing before and after restoration projects at Paradise and Cougar Rock Campground, employees transporting plants in wheelbarrows, sorting plants, and volunteers planting at Paradise. ~ab/kl

#pnw native plants #native plants #mt rainier #tahoma

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jazmatazzzzzz · 9 months

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