Posted on 11/08/2005 10:06:17 AM PST by cogitator
Though there's geology involved, today we will just take a look at the colors of autumn from the air. Using Bertrand's Web site, I guessed and got lucky with an identification of the first one. I have no idea where the second one is from, so if someone has the time and enterprising spirit, have fun figuring out the location. The caption for the first is below the picture.
AUTUMN FOREST IN THE REGION OF CHARLEVOIX, QUEBEC, CANADA (47°40' N, 71°02' W)
The hills of the Charlevoix region along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec province are dominated by a mixed forest of deciduous trees and conifers. In 1988 UNESCO declared 1,800 square miles (4,600 km2) of this region a Biosphere Reserve. The Quebec forest, boreal in the north and temperate in the south, covers nearly two-thirds of the province and has been exploited for lumber since the end of the 17th century. Today it contributes to the economic prosperity of Canada in the worldwide production of newsprint paper, paper pulp, and timber, as well as Christmas trees and maple syrup. The Canadian forest has long been overexploited and has also been decimated by parasitic insects and acid rain, resulting in a considerable reduction in its total area. However, the forest today still covers almost 144.6 million hectares (84.6 million in Quebec), around one of million of which is cut down every year. Since 1992, Canada, a world leader in sustainable forest management, has been striving to introduce sustainable practices, and to reconcile the various environmental, economic, social, and cultural demands being made on its forests.
Picture 2, location unknown (this is picture 179 in "The Earth from the Air, 365 Days", if that helps):
I was going to say that top one looked alot like Northern Ontario, not far off though. The second one must be somewhere in the appalachians perhaps?
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Our color season was late, dull, and then cut short from this weekend's wind and rain. Friday morning the maples along my street were bathed in red...by Sunday they were bare.
Bertrand's site has 1000 pictures, and I guessed Canada and found the first one. The second one is not shown in the United States section, but that doesn't mean it's not in the United States. I get sort of a western rangeland feel from it.
Man, we live on a beautiful continent!
As a child growing up in Western Pennsylvania I hiked through the woods one autumn day and climbed to the top of a big hill, and was presented with a view much like the first picture. It's shocking to see something so beautiful, and the memory is still with me 35 years later.
Beautiful!!!! Autumn is my favorite season.
Cool pix!
I wonder how anyone can look at the sheer beauty of these photos and not believe in God! What a beautiful site. Thanks.
Do a google search for yannarthusbertrand (no spaces etc, and you will find his aerial web page. It looks like it is a french web site. beautiful pictures.
Fall landscape at Traful, Neuquén Province, Argentina (S 38°57'-W 68°04').
The Andes in the south of Neuquén Province are nicknamed “the Argentine Switzerland” because their landscape recalls that of the Alps. This temperate forest is unique in Latin America, and most of it lies in neighboring Chile. Wedged between the Atacama Desert to the north, the pampas to the east, and the ocean to the west, it is a botanical island, displaying a remarkable degree of endemism: almost 90 percent of its plant species grow nowhere else. As well as being highly varied, it is also beautiful in autumn, when the flaming red of the beeches contrasts with the dark green of conifers. But these two countries of southern Latin America have already lost almost half of this woodland. In Argentina, natural forest is often replaced by monoculture of pine or eucalyptus. These plantations are deeply impoverished biologically and, as a result, are vulnerable to illness and other problems. Nevertheless, in some countries they help keep deforestation in check and protect the soil from erosion.
And I will just add that there's a lot of interplay between geology and biology leading to the existence of this area (another one I hadn't heard of before -- I'm slipping!).
There is a little picture on this page of Nahuel Haupi Lake that is stunning. There are links to places of interest at the bottom of the page. Check out Nahuel Haupi National Park and Lanin National Park.
Another entry for my "Where to go when I win the lottery, which is impossible since I don't play the lottery" list.
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