If these Danner boots could talk. These suckers have been with me for 25 years and are now on their way to a landfill. They gave me support working in the park service and as a first responder in the metro area. Working in severe weather and near tornadoes, one bridge collapse, a few scuffles and arrests, search warrants, countless medical calls including two delivered babies, and court trials. #ems #parkranger

Allow yourself to remember a scent. It may be a particular type of food, a familiar location, or maybe of a loved one, that thrills your sensations. Scent is a powerful concoction that can evoke emotion, behavior and memory.

A bear’s world is dominated by scent. But they harness at an almost supernatural level compared to our own. With a very large, convoluted nose, a huge surface area for scent receptors, and a very large olfactory bulb, their sense of smell is one of the best in the animal kingdom. This means that a bears olfactory sense is nearly 2,100 times better than our own. Their main view of the world is that of scents, wafting through the breeze.

This sow that we have been observing for months, has finally caught the smell of something that she desires most, salmon. She has been out on the low tide everyday for weeks, digging first for clams, and then fishing for flounder. But in the past 2 days an excitement has come over her, as she rushes to the waters edge with eager anticipation. The salmon have returned, and the rivers off the Shelikof Strait are beginning to fill with chum and pink salmon again.

Although not as abundant as the Bristol bay runs that we see in other parts of the Alaskan peninsula, it is still a critical moment for the ecosystems here. The salmon reproduce and die, their nutrients spread throughout the flora and fauna all along the coast, helping to strengthen the web of life. You can smell the fish in the rivers, and it smells of environemtnal opulence.


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A Trilha da Copaíba é um percurso de 2,2 km, por dentro do Parque Nacional Montanhas do Tumucumaque, no estado do Amapá, com início na base do ICMBio (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade) até a Corredeira do Jenipapo. Ao longo do caminho, o visitante é guiado pelo guarda-florestal Valdeci Belo, profundo conhecedor das plantas, raízes, árvores, fungos e animais. Além da experiência com técnicas de sobrevivência na selva, Seu Valdeci tem uma verdadeira relação espiritual com a floresta amazônica.

* Trilha da Copaíba is a 2.2 km trial, inside the Parque Nacional Montanhas do Tumucumaque, in the state of Amapá, starting at the base of ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation) to the Corredeira do Jenipapo. Throughout the path, the visitor is guided by the park ranger Valdeci Belo, a deep connoisseur of plants, roots, trees, fungi and animals. In addition to the experience with survival techniques in the jungle, Valdeci has a true spiritual relationship with the Amazon rainforest.

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