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  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.<br />
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  • Downtown main street of Liberal, Kansas sports new streetlights with old-time character, but which pour light out in all directions and up into the sky.  With no shielding the exposed globes cause much glare that makes seeing difficult.
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  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
    MM7509_20080409_1733-B.jpg
  • The St. Louis Arch is lit at night, creating a spectacular display and also contributing to the light pollution that is common in and around all major metropolitan ares.
    MM7509_20080409_1749-B.jpg
  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
    MM7509_20080414_3639-B.jpg
  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
    MM7509_20080414_3719-B.jpg
  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
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  • Stars and the Milky Way above a hillside of Saguaro cactus east of Peridot, Arizona.
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  • In Portal, Arizona where Arizona Sky Villages is developing a community for fans of dark skies.  Homes have telescope domes on the roof and connections to a robotic telescope. Streets have names like "Milky Way."
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  • San Franciso and the Golden Gate Bridge, seen from the Marin Headlands.  Even though a relatively "green" city in a state that pays attention to night lighting, San Francisco is largely not different than an large urban area and puts out a lot of light into the night, creating a night light environment of its own.
    MM7509_200803220393-B.jpg
  • Light from the nearby growing city of Moab fills the sky over Balanced Rock formation in Arches National Park. Park officials are worried about the growing effects of light pollution.
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  • Chicago glows in the night as clouds drift in off the lake.  The cities pattern of streets, which shows up so distinctly at night, is unusually rigid and the core city area is lit almost entirely with sodium vapor lamps.
    MM7509_20080414_3767-B.jpg
  • Light from the nearby growing city of Moab fills the sky over Balanced Rock formation in Arches National Park. Park officials are worried about the growing effects of light pollution.
    MM7509_20080402_1410.jpg
  • Stars and the Milky Way above a hillside of Saguaro cactus east of Peridot, Arizona.
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  • Natural Bridges National Monument in southeast Utah is the first International Dark Sky Preserve.  Skies here are exceptionally dark and the Milky Way stands out as broad avenue in the sky.
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  • Retired Canadian businessman Jack Newton enjoys his house in Portal, Arizona where Arizona Sky Villages is developing a community for fans of dark skies.  Homes have telescope domes on the roof and connections to a robotic telescope.
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  • Volunteer Brian Armstrong patrols downtown Tornonto before dawn, trying to rescue birds that have become trapped by the light and tall buildings.  This morning he rescued a Virginia Rail.  He was too late to save a Yellow Bellied Sapsucker.
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  • Workers repair one of Grand Coulee dam's huge turbines.
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  • Michael Mesure and his volunteers from F.L.A.P. (Fatal Light Awareness Program) do their annual laying out of the birds that were killed running into downtown buildings in Toronto.  Birds confused by urban lighting become confused and trapped in the lighting of skyscrapers.
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  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
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Sophora secundiflora (Fabaceae) - Texas mountain laurel, mescal bean; native to North America (Texas, New Mexico, northern Mexico)<br />
The hard, fibrous and indehiscent camaras of the Texas mountain laurel (Sophora secundiflora, Fabaceae-Papilionoideae) appear to be adapted to dispersal by large herbivorous mammals such as antelopes. However, most of the potential dispersers in North America would have died out c. 13.000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. The only native antelope in the southern US is the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Observations as to whether the pronghorn does eat the fruits of the Texas mountain laurel seem to be missing. The very hard and shiny seeds of the Texas mountain laurel are coloured bright red, a characteristic that generally indicated 'fraudulent' bird-dispersal ('fruit mimicry'). However, since the fruits are very hard and indehiscent, the conspicuous colour of the seeds is hard to explain from an adaptational point of view. Perhaps their colour is part of a two-stage dispersal mechanism, tricking birds into picking the seeds from the faeces of megafaunal herbivores.<br />
interesting weblinks:<br />
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=sose3: Sophora secundiflora is very popular as a native evergreen ornamental tree within its range, valued for its handsome, dark green foliage and lush early spring blooms. It is drought-tolerant, prefers rocky limestone soil, and is native from central Texas west to New Mexico and south to San Luis Potosi in Mexico. Like many woody plants native to rocky soils, it is slow growing. The fragrance of Texas mountain laurel flowers is reminiscent of artificial grape products.
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  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
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Sophora secundiflora (Fabaceae) - Texas mountain laurel, mescal bean; native to North America (Texas, New Mexico, northern Mexico)<br />
The hard, fibrous and indehiscent camaras of the Texas mountain laurel (Sophora secundiflora, Fabaceae-Papilionoideae) appear to be adapted to dispersal by large herbivorous mammals such as antelopes. However, most of the potential dispersers in North America would have died out c. 13.000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. The only native antelope in the southern US is the pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Observations as to whether the pronghorn does eat the fruits of the Texas mountain laurel seem to be missing. The very hard and shiny seeds of the Texas mountain laurel are coloured bright red, a characteristic that generally indicated 'fraudulent' bird-dispersal ('fruit mimicry'). However, since the fruits are very hard and indehiscent, the conspicuous colour of the seeds is hard to explain from an adaptational point of view. Perhaps their colour is part of a two-stage dispersal mechanism, tricking birds into picking the seeds from the faeces of megafaunal herbivores.<br />
interesting weblinks:<br />
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=sose3: Sophora secundiflora is very popular as a native evergreen ornamental tree within its range, valued for its handsome, dark green foliage and lush early spring blooms. It is drought-tolerant, prefers rocky limestone soil, and is native from central Texas west to New Mexico and south to San Luis Potosi in Mexico. Like many woody plants native to rocky soils, it is slow growing. The fragrance of Texas mountain laurel flowers is reminiscent of artificial grape products. The brilliant, lacquer red seeds were valued by indigenous people for ornament and ceremonial use; they contain the highly poisonous alkaloid cytosine (or sophorine), a substance related to nicotine and widely cited as a narcot
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  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
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Alnus glutinosa (Betulaceae) - black alder, common alder, European alder; native to Europe (and SW Asia);<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnus_glutinosa: Alnus glutinosa is important as coppice-wood on marshy ground. The wood is soft, white when first cut and turning to pale red; the knots are beautifully mottled. Under water the wood is very durable, and it is therefore used for piles. The supports of the Rialto at Venice, and many buildings at Amsterdam, are of Alder wood. It is also the traditional wood burnt to produce smoked fish and other smoked foods, though in some areas other woods are more often used now. Furniture is sometimes made from the wood, as were clogs, and it supplies excellent charcoal for gunpowder. The bark is astringent; it is used for tanning and dyeing. Alnus glutinosa is also cultivated and locally naturalised in eastern North America.<br />
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http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Alnus+glutinosa: medicinal and other uses:<br />
The bark is alterative, astringent, cathartic, febrifuge and tonic[4, 7, 14, 46, 269]. The fresh bark will cause vomiting, so use dried bark for all but emetic purposes[21]. A decoction of the dried bark is used to bathe swellings and inflammations, especially of the mouth and throat[4, 9, 21, 254]. The powdered bark and the leaves have been used as an internal astringent and tonic, whilst the bark has also been used as an internal and external haemostatic against haemorrhage[21]. The dried bark of young twigs are used, or the inner bark of branches 2 - 3 years old[9]. It is harvested in the spring and dried for later use[9]. Boiling the inner bark in vinegar produces a useful wash to treat lice and a range of skin problems such as scabies and scabs[21]. The liquid can also be used as a toothwash[21]. The leaves are astringent, galactogogue and vermifuge[7]. They are used to help reduce breast engorgement in nursing mothers[254].
    MM7753_2010-07-23_11929.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
<br />
Alnus glutinosa (Betulaceae) - black alder, common alder, European alder; native to Europe (and SW Asia);<br />
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnus_glutinosa: Alnus glutinosa is important as coppice-wood on marshy ground. The wood is soft, white when first cut and turning to pale red; the knots are beautifully mottled. Under water the wood is very durable, and it is therefore used for piles. The supports of the Rialto at Venice, and many buildings at Amsterdam, are of Alder wood. It is also the traditional wood burnt to produce smoked fish and other smoked foods, though in some areas other woods are more often used now. Furniture is sometimes made from the wood, as were clogs, and it supplies excellent charcoal for gunpowder. The bark is astringent; it is used for tanning and dyeing. Alnus glutinosa is also cultivated and locally naturalised in eastern North America.<br />
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http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Alnus+glutinosa: medicinal and other uses:<br />
The bark is alterative, astringent, cathartic, febrifuge and tonic[4, 7, 14, 46, 269]. The fresh bark will cause vomiting, so use dried bark for all but emetic purposes[21]. A decoction of the dried bark is used to bathe swellings and inflammations, especially of the mouth and throat[4, 9, 21, 254]. The powdered bark and the leaves have been used as an internal astringent and tonic, whilst the bark has also been used as an internal and external haemostatic against haemorrhage[21]. The dried bark of young twigs are used, or the inner bark of branches 2 - 3 years old[9]. It is harvested in the spring and dried for later use[9]. Boiling the inner bark in vinegar produces a useful wash to treat lice and a range of skin problems such as scabies and scabs[21].
    MM7753_2010-07-23_11929.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
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Tipuana tipu (Leguminosae) – tipu tree; native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia & Argentina) – fruits (samaras); the 1-3-seeded, unilaterally winged samaras of the tipu tree bear a striking resemblance to the fruitlets of maples (Acer spp., Sapindaceae). A unilateral wing causes a helicopter-like flight as the diaspore rotates around its centre of gravity (i.e. the thickened, seed-bearing part of the fruit); length c. 5cm. ---  The tipu tree is widely planted as a street tree in the tropics; it is very vigorous and can become an invasive pest, such as in South Africa. The timber of the tipu tree is used for furniture.<br />
From: http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/GBASE/data/pf000407.htm: This is mainly an ornamental tree, used in urban forestry, but the leaves also constitute e good feed for stock. It is also one of the many "rose woods". It has been used in the South Sahel and North Sudanese ecozones for street and amenity plantations, as well as in Dakar, Cairo, Lisbon, Tunis, Sousse, Jerusalem etc.
    MM7753_2010-07-23_11791.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
<br />
Tipuana tipu (Leguminosae) – tipu tree; native to South America (Brazil, Bolivia & Argentina) – fruits (samaras); the 1-3-seeded, unilaterally winged samaras of the tipu tree bear a striking resemblance to the fruitlets of maples (Acer spp., Sapindaceae). A unilateral wing causes a helicopter-like flight as the diaspore rotates around its centre of gravity (i.e. the thickened, seed-bearing part of the fruit); length c. 5cm. ---  The tipu tree is widely planted as a street tree in the tropics; it is very vigorous and can become an invasive pest, such as in South Africa. The timber of the tipu tree is used for furniture.<br />
From: http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/GBASE/data/pf000407.htm: This is mainly an ornamental tree, used in urban forestry, but the leaves also constitute e good feed for stock. It is also one of the many "rose woods". It has been used in the South Sahel and North Sudanese ecozones for street and amenity plantations, as well as in Dakar, Cairo, Lisbon, Tunis, Sousse, Jerusalem etc.
    MM7753_2010-07-23_11791.jpg