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Archive For The “boreal” Category

Fog on a Kitimat mountaintop

Fog on a Kitimat mountaintop. (Robin Rowland)

October 14, 2017 Robin Rowland
Alpha 77, black and white, boreal, fog, Photoblog, rain forest, summitBlack-and-white , British Columbia , fog , forest , Kitimat , trees , Weather

Fall reflections at low tide at Minette Bay

Fall reflections at low tide at Minette Bay. (Robin Rowland)

October 14, 2017 Robin Rowland
Alpha 77, autumn, boreal, forest, Kitimat, natureBritish Columbia , fall colors , fall colours , Kitimat , low tide , Minette Bay , mountain , reflection

Moon setting over Twin Falls, near Smithers BC

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The moon is setting over Twin Falls, a provincial park, northwest of Smithers, British Columbia on the morning of August 25, 2016. Sony Alpha 7II, with Sony G 70-300. (Robin Rowland)

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September 1, 2016 Robin Rowland
Alpha 7II, black and white, boreal, moon, mountains, nature, PhotoblogBlack-and-white , British Columbia , forest , landscape , Moon , mountain , Smithers , waterfall

Devil’s club and skunk cabbage

Devil's club  (Oplopanx horridus)

Devil’s club (Oplopanx horridus) (Robin Rowland)

There’s beauty in the forests of the Kitimat Valley, even if you’re a plant with the Latin name horridus. It’s also called the Devil’s Club and has very nasty spines on both the stem and the leaves. It’s related to the ginseng family and was used by coastal First Nations as a medicine for arthritis and dozens of other ailments.

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The other appropriately ill-named plant that is common in wetter areas is the skunk cabbage (Lysichiton Americanum) because it stinks. Here the skunk cabbage is pictured alongside the Devil’s Club near Minette Bay.(Robin Rowland)
Found frequently in swampy, boggy areas and on stream beds. First Nations used it as “wax paper” to line baskets and steaming pits. Can be eaten if steamed or roasted–but only in early spring in time of famine.

April 29, 2016 Robin Rowland
black and white, boreal, forest, Kitimat, landscape, nature, rain forest, springBritish Columbia , Devil's Club , Kitimat , landscape , skunk cabbage , spring

Early fall light on the ponds of the Kitimat Lower Dyke Road

Early fall light on the ponds of the Kitimat Lower Dyke Road

Fall is coming early to Kitimat….or so it appears.  We’ve just come through about three weeks of cold, wet and windy weather. Some trees are already turning to gold.

In the early afternoon sun along the Kitimat River Lower Dyke Road, the glorious green is still dominant.

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Wind blown green leaves on a pond alongside the Lower Dyke Road. (Robin Rowland)

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More windblown leaves float along a stream that will eventually reach the Kitimat  River. (Robin Rowland)

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An old log in the middle of a pond looks like an ancient sea monster.  (Robin Rowland)

September 13, 2015 Robin Rowland
autumn, boreal, forest, Kitimat, nature, Photoblog, Photography, wetlandautumn , fall , impressionist , Kitimat , landscape , leaves , pond , stream

When BC’s Coast Range looks like the southern desert

When BC’s Coast Range looks like the southern desert

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Since I moved back to Kitimat, I’ve flown from Northwest Regional Terrace-Kitimat airport to Vancouver several times, spring, summer and winter,. There’s always been snow on the mountains.  This year I went down on September 7 and flew back on September 11.

On the flight down I looked out and saw the Coast Range mountains. All but the highest peaks with no snow, the rest of the high mountain tops, normally bluish and white from fresh snow. Now both on the flight down and the flight back, those mountain tops were a dull brown. So was 2014 just a dry year, with no fresh snow or is this another indication of climate change?

The images were taken from a Westjet Bombardier flying at 25,000 feet.  Digital photographs have been slightly colour corrected to eliminate bluish tint from the atmosphere, but all reflect what I saw.  As in the  image at the top, you see the deep green of the forest on the lower slopes, the dull brown and grey of the rocks of the peaks and the snow,  snow only seen in the areas where the sun seldom reaches and that snow itself dull, old, covered in dust.

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Dirt covered glaciers sneak in the valleys they’ve carved while higher up the mountains are bare, brown, sepia, black and grey, just like the deserts I saw when flying over Nevada a few years ago,

 

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A closer view of the glacier and the peaks. There has been no fresh snow for weeks.

 

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A river snakes through a valley, where the rain forest only reaches  only about a third way up the slopes.   The rest is bare.

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The only snow visible is on a stump like mountain top overlooking a green valley.

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Dirty snow on the peaks overlooking lush river valleys.

 

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Another glacier in valley  empties into a lake with bare mountains above.

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While one mountain still has snow at the top….

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On another there are some bare traces of snow and an alpine lake.

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More ice and snow on a peak, a glacier and dirty desert like slopes.

On the way back

 

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Leaving Vancouver, heading north and looking east.

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More mountains with just a trace of snow.

 

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A gorgeous green glacier fed alpine lake.

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Glaciers come down from the peaks, and join together  surrounded by bare rocky peaks.

September 24, 2014 Robin Rowland
BC, boreal, climate, landscape, mountains, Photography, snowaerials , climate , clouds , glacier , lake , landscape , mountain , snow

Alders at Pine Creek, black and white

Alders at Pine Creek, black and white
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Alders at Pine Creek, May 11, 2014 (Robin Rowland)

On May 11, 2014, the leaves were just emerging on the alders along Pine Creek, just outside Kitimat, BC.

May 12, 2014 Robin Rowland
alder, black and white, boreal, Kitimat, landscape, springalder , Black-and-white , British Columbia , Kitimat , spring , trees
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