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Sunday, December 8, 2024

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Aces Wild December as Awesome Denali, Area of Drunken Forest White Spruce

Summary: 2022 and 2023 and 2024 Audubon bibliography.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Denali National Park lies within the Alaska Range, a mountain range that arcs east-west across south central Alaska; "Alpine lakes and forest, Denali National Park, Alaska," image obtained Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008, by American photographer Carol M. (McKinney) Highsmith (born May 18, 1946); credit line Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
No known restrictions on publication, via Library of Congress (LOC) Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)

A lower slope of the Alaska Range's Denali mountain peak features the Drunken Forest, a stand of strangely leaning white spruce (Picea glauca) created by soil sliding resulting from freeze and thaw cycles of permafront; Denali National Park and Preserve contains three types of forest, ranging, from lowest to highest, as low brush bog, bottomland spruce-poplar forest and upland spruce-hardwood forest; "Alaska Range -- Fog light," National Park Service (NPS) image of frost on brush and spruce in foggy Alaska Range obtained Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, by NPS Public Affairs Specialist, graphic artist and photographer Timothy Rains; credit NPS/Tim Rains: Denali National Park and Preserve (DenaliNPS), CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Marriner, Derdriu. 8 December 2024. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Aces Wild December as Awesome Denali, Area of Drunken Forest White Spruce." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/12/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2024-aces.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 November 2024. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Allies With November Polar Bears, Ringed Seal Predators." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/11/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2024.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 October 2024. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Airs Willow Ptarmigans for October." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/10/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2024-airs.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 September 2024. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024: Dall Sheep at September Snow Willow." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/09/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2024-dall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 August 2024. "Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic Terns Above August Nagoon?" Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/08/are-audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2024.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 July 2024. "Ivishak River Acts as Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/07/ivishak-river-acts-as-wild-july-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 May 2024. "Beluga Whales Awe Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 as Wild May." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/05/beluga-whales-awe-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 March 2024. "Baffin Bay Agrees as Wild March With Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/03/baffin-bay-agrees-as-wild-march-with.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 February 2024. "Tufted Puffins Add Wild February to Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2024/02/tufted-puffins-add-wild-february-to.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 30 December 2023. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 Assigns Snowy Owls to December Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/12/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2022.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 December 2023. "Spectacled Eiders Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 December Birds." Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/12/spectacled-eiders-are-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 November 2023. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 Adds Mount Katmai to Wild November." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/11/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2022-adds.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 October 2023. "Caribou Abound as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 October Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/caribou-abound-as-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 October 2023. "Red-Necked Phalaropes, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 October Birds." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/10/red-necked-phalaropes-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 September 2023. "Brown Bears Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/brown-bears-are-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 2 September 2023. "Polar Bears Act as Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 September Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/polar-bears-act-as-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 12 August 2023. "Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 Augurs King Eiders as August Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/audubon-arctic-wall-calendar-2022.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 August 2023. "Savannah Sparrows Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 August Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/savannah-sparrows-are-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 July 2023. "Kenai Peninsula Awes, As Wild July, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/kenai-peninsula-awes-as-wild-july.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 June 2023. "Buff-Breasted Sandpipers, Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 June Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/06/buff-breasted-sandpipers-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 June 2023. "Rock Ptarmigans Act as June Birds on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/06/rock-ptarmigans-act-as-june-birds-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 May 2023. "Moose Appear as May Animals on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/moose-appear-as-may-animals-on-audubon.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 April 2023. "Brooks Range Acts as Wild April on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/brooks-range-acts-as-wild-april-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 April 2023. "Arctic Terns Are April Birds on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/04/arctic-terns-are-april-birds-on-audubon.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 March 2023. "Western Sandpipers Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 March Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/03/western-sandpipers-are-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 March 2023. "Baffin Island Wolves Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 Wild March." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/03/baffin-island-wolves-are-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 February 2023. "Musk Ox, Muskox Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar February 2022 Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/musk-ox-muskox-are-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 February 2023. "Red-Throated Loons Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023 February Birds." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/02/red-throated-loons-are-audubon-arctic.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 January 2023. "Mallard Ducks Aced Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 as January Birds." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/mallard-ducks-aced-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 January 2023. "Red Foxes Are January Wildlife on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2023." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/01/red-foxes-are-january-wildlife-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 December 2022. "Dark-Eyed Juncos Are December Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/12/dark-eyed-juncos-are-december-birds-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 26 November 2022. "Eared Grebes Are November Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/11/eared-grebes-are-november-birds-on-2022.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 October 2022. "Barred Owls Are October Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/10/barred-owls-are-october-birds-on-2022.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 3 September 2022. "Brown Pelicans Are September Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/09/brown-pelicans-are-september-birds-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 7 August 2022. "Allen’s Hummingbirds Are August Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/08/allens-hummingbirds-are-august-birds-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 30 July 2022. "Reddish Egrets Are July Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/07/reddish-egrets-are-july-birds-on-2022.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 June 2022. "American Oystercatchers Are June Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/06/american-oystercatchers-are-june-birds.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 May 2022. "Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks Are May Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/05/rose-breasted-grosbeaks-are-may-birds.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 10 April 2022. "Crested Caracaras Appear as April Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Sunday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/04/crested-caracaras-appear-as-april-birds.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 19 March 2022. "Cerulean Warblers Are March Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/03/cerulean-warblers-are-march-birds-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 5 February 2022. "Northern Bobwhites Are February Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/02/northern-bobwhites-are-february-birds.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 1 January 2022. "Florida Scrub-Jays Are January Birds on the 2022 Audubon Calendar." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2022/01/florida-scrub-jays-are-january-birds-on.html

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Allies With November Polar Bears, Ringed Seal Predators

Summary: Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 allies with November polar bears, ringed seal predators whom they aliken in abiding among Arctic and Sub-Arctic sea ice.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 allies with November polar bears, ringed seal predators whom they aliken in abiding among Arctic and Sub-Arctic sea ice as areas that allow meeting, mating and resting.

March, April and May betoken when polar bears (sea bear, Ursus maritimus, "bear sea" literally) most bother ringed seals (bristly seal, Pusa hispida, “seal bristly” literally). Ringed-seal mothers-to-be construct four to six lairs to contain each annually conceived pup the first two months of that newborn’s perhaps 25- to 40-year lifespan. The five- to seven-week lactation period demands that the ringed-seal mother and her pup, birth-weighted at 10 pounds (4.53592 kilograms) domicile in different lairs different nights.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

Phoca hispida, Plate LXXXVI, illustrated by J. Schwertner (I. Schwertner del.), engraved by German draughtsman and engraver Johannes Nussbiegel (Joh. Nuſsbiegel ſc.; Dec. 6, 1750-May 6, 1833), in J.C.D. Schreber, Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen, Plates 81-165, Plate LXXXVI: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/8556243731/; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064542; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97341#page/21/mode/1up

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For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 September 2023. "Brown Bears Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/brown-bears-are-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel. 1775. Die Säugetiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Dritter Theil. Der Säugthiere dritte Abtheilung. "6. Der rauhe Seehund. Tab. LXXXVI [Phoca hispida]." Erlangen: Wolfgang Walther, 1778.
Available via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42529027
Available via WoRMS World Register of Marine Species @ https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137083

Saturday, September 7, 2024

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024: Dall Sheep at September Snow Willow

Summary: Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 perhaps acclaims Dall sheep at September snow willow in the latter subshrubs’ mountainous alpine habitats in North America.

Dall sheep, also as known as thinhorn sheep commonly and as Ovis dalli (from Latin ovis, "sheep"; for William Healey Dall [Aug. 21, 1845-Mar 27, 1927]) scientifically, accept alder (Alnus fruticosa), alpine azalea (Loiseleuria procumbens), aster (Aster spp), bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), blueberries (Vaccinium uliginosum), cinquefoil (Potentilla fruticosa), common field horsetail (Equisetum arvense), cranberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea minus), crowberries (Empetrum nigrum), dwarf and tall willows (Salix spp), dwarf Arctic birch (Betula nana), grasses and sedges such as short sedge (Carex hepburnii), Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum), Lapland Rose-bay (Rhododendron lapponiucum), leaf lichen, lichen (Cladonia spp), loco (Oxytropis spp), moss, mountain avens (Dryas spp), sage (Artemisia arctica, A. frigida, A. hookeriana), saxifrage (Saxifraga tricuspidata) and wintergreen (Pyrola spp). The seed heads of Alaskan wheatgrass (Agropyron latiglume), American and boreal sweet-vetch (Hedysarum americanum, H. mackenzi), Canadian and bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis langsdorfii, C. canadensis), red fescue (Festuca rubra), spike false oat (Trisetum spicatum) also accommodate their appetites. Their appetities likewise admit bluebells (Mertensia spp), Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis) berries, cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum) leaves and seed heads and dry larkspur (Delphinium spp); image of two Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) lambs obtained Wednesday, June 29, 2005, 12:54, by Mike Boylan, USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service); uploaded Nov. 25, 2006, 23:18, to Wikimedia Commons by Pharaoh Hound.: Mike Boylan/USFWS, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 perhaps acclaims Dall sheep at September snow willow in the latter subshrubs’ mountainous alpine habitats in the northwest areas of the two northern countries in North America.

Tracheophytes (from Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία φυτά, “windpipe plants”) clade membership brings snow willow xylem (from Greek ξύλον, “wood”) tissues brokering sideward-, upward-bound moisture and soluble minerals. It conveniences snow willow with non-woody phloem (from Greek φλόος, “bark, husk, peel, rind, skin”) tissues containing carbon dioxide-, sunlight-, water-created, downward-, sideward-circulating oxygenized, sugary photosynthates. Angiosperms (from Greek ἀγγεῖον σπέρμα, “container[ized] seed”) cladeship delivers snow willows, also designated net-leaved willows, seeds that dwell within fruits, developed as capsules in their case.

Eudicots (true two embryonic leaves, from Greek εὖ- δῐ- κοτῠληδών, “well two cup-shaped hollow”) cladeship entails two seed leaves at the germinated-plant base of snow willow.

Snow willow, featured scientifically as Salix reticulata (from Latin salix rēticulātus, “willow net-like”), fancies Rosids (from Greek ῥόδον, “rose [Rosa gallica]” via Latin rosa) clade membership.

Malpighiales (from Italian mal pighi, “bad freshwater-fish [Rutilus pigus]” for Marcello Malpighi [Mar 10, 1628-Nov. 30, 1694]; Latin -ālis, “pertaining”) order guards snow willow among members. Often somewhat calcareous (from Latin calx -ārius, “lime –belonging” via calcārius, “of, pertaining to lime”), chalky, soil with calcium carbonate and lime house snow willow shrubs. Such soil is on ledges and rocks inhabiting colder Europe, North America and Northern Asia, where the deciduous, dwarf, prostrate shrub is a native woody plant.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 jubilates Dall sheep, and perhaps their September snow willow leaves and twigs, in Alaska, British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory.

Snow willow subshrubs, as ground-level, loose, open mats that keep extensive, multi-branching, underground stems, know maximum habits of 3-inch (8-centimeter) heights and of 12-inch (30-centimeter) breadths.

The deciduous (from Latin dēcidō, “to fall down, to fall off” via dēciduus, “falling down, falling off”) dwarf shrub lodges exposed, maximally 7.9-inch- (20-centimeter-) high stems. Snow-willow trailing stems and their branches, branchlets and twigs maintain initial hairiness even as their brown-yellowness matures into darker manifestations whose brown-redness meets with overall hairlessness. Alternate leaves with minimal 0.314961- to 0.472441-inch (8- to 12-millimeter), maximal 2.59843-inch (66-millimeter) lengths by 0.314961- to 1.9685-inch (8- to 50-millimeter) widths niche numerous net-like veins.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 offers Dall sheep, whose taxonomy obliges Alaska-exploring naturalist William Healey Dall (Aug. 21, 1845-Mar 27, 1927), perhaps observing September snow willow.

Circular, elliptic, oblong, subcircular leaves perch atop black-red, 0.11811- to 1.81102-inch (3- to 46-millimeter) stems possessing May- through August-prettifying catkins (from Dutch katteken, “little cat”).

Pink-purple-green, 6-plus-flowering, female-subshrub, pistillate (from Latin pistillum, “pestle”), pollen-receiving catkins quarter 0.433071- to 3.11024-inch (11- to 79-millimeter) lengths and 0.11811- to 0.314961-inch (3- to 8-millimeter) widths. Yellow, male-subshrub, pollen-producing, staminate (from Latin stamen -atus, “distaff-thread-/loom-warp-having”) catkins reveal 0.433071- to -inch (11- to 54-millimeter) lengths and 0.15748- to 0.354331-inch (4- to 9-millimeter) widths. Fruit capsules with short-lived seeds that spell sowing surface soils and suggest germination within two to three weeks secure 0.177165- to 0.19685-inch (4.5- to 5-millimeter) sizes.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 perhaps team Dall sheep with tasty September snow willow, a leafy, twiggy treat year-round in the summer- and in the winter-time.

Salix reticulata (from Latin salix rēticulātus, “willow net-like”) subshrubs, affirmed commonly as net-leaved and snow willow and taxonomically by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778), agree with Dall sheep year-round. They align with other dwarf-willow shrubs along Alaskan and northwest Canadian ridges even as tall-willow shrubs ally with streamsides and with swales amassed between spur ridges; Salix reticulata L. (A; upper) and Salix herbacea L. (B; lower), illustrated by Swedish botanist and botanical artist Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (April 6, 1856-June 21, 1928) in A. (August) Mentz and C.H. (Carl Hansen) Ostenfeld, Billeder af Nordens Flora (1917-1923), II Tavler Nr. 269-519, Plate 382: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

For further information:

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 September 2023. "Brown Bears Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/brown-bears-are-audubon-arctic-wall.html

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Ivishak River Acts as Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024

Summary: Ivishak River acts as Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024, where the National Audubon Society attends wild Arctic and near-Arctic North America.

Ivishak River flows as a tributary of Sagavanirktok River in northern Alaska's North Slope Borough; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) image of upper Ivishak River valley by David Cline: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Ivishak River acts as Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024, where the National Audubon Society attends Canada and the United states continentally, insularly, as wild Arctic and near-Arctic North America.

The 95-mile- (153-kilometer-) long Ivishak River bears its name according to Board on Geographic Names decisions Jan. 1, 1949, Jan. 1, 1959, and Jan. 1, 1916. Ernest de Koven Leffingwell (Jan. 13, 1875-Jan. 27, 1971) changed Inuit (from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, “the people”) nomenclature communicated by Diamond Jenness (Feb. 10, 1886-Nov. 29, 1969). The water body in the North Slope Borough of northern Alaska describes a northeastward to northwestward course from its head in Brooks Range, at 68°34′25″N 147°16′43″W.

The waters entertained as National Wild and Scenic River since Dec. 2, 1980, enters Sagavanirktok River 55 miles (89 kilometers) south of Prudhoe Bay, Arctic Plain.

Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Dec. 2, 1980, fit the Sagavanirktok (from Iñupiat sawanukto, “strong current”) tributary under United States Fish and Wildlife Service administration.

That administration guards 80 miles (129 kilometers) that as headwaters, main stem apart lowermost part and Porcupine Lake unnamed tributary grace the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Ivishak River heads from glacier-honed, headwater-housing terrain through upland terrains of the Philip Smith Mountains and the northern foothills of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It finally inhabits the flatter terrain of the coastal plain southward from the United States Census Bureau-designated place identified as the 558-square-mile (1,445-square-kilometer) Prudhoe Bay lands.

The Ivishak River journeys, as Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 and during any polar-region month, through the cold-winter and the cool-summer tundra climate.

The tundra (from Kildin Sami тӯннтрэ, “treeless flatland” via Russian ту́ндра) climate kindles summer temperatures of 45 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit (7 to 13 degrees Celsius).

The tundra-region climate lets the Ivishak River and its riverbanks annually log at least one month with 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius) as average temperature. It means year-in, year-out hanging and u-shaped glacier-made and v-shaped river-made valleys or year-round maintenance of glaciers, manifestation of ice fields and movement of flowing springs. Its hard, permanently frozen grounds negate woody-plant needs for roots deep-niched in soils that net air and water pore spaces and root-uptakeable solibilizable or soluble nutrients.

Coastal plain, montane and upland animal and plant species occur alongside, proximitous to or visible from Ivishak River, Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024.

The North Slope Borough alongside, proximitous to or visible from the Ivishak River possesses grasses, lichens, mosses and sedges; some dwarf shrubs; and sometimes dwarf trees.

Ivishak River-proximitous and Ivishak River-visible vegetation quarters such tussocks as cottongrass (Eriophorum spp) and such woody plants as poplar (Poplar), spruce (Picea) and willow (Salix) trees. They realize such avian wildlife as king (Somateria spectabilis), spectacled (Somateria fischeri) and Steller’s (Polysticta stelleri) eiders; long-tailed ducks (Clangula hyemalis); and yellow-billed loons (Gavia adamsii). They shelter gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus), peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus), rough-legged hawks (Buteo lagopus) and snowy owls (Nyctea scandiaca) and such mammals as brown lemmings (Lemmus trimucronatus).

Ivishak River, as Wild July on Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024, treats its audiences to the northern-subspecied dolly varden trout (Salvelinus malma malma) of Arctic drainages.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

The Ivishak River numbers among Arctic drainages occupied by Northern Dolly Varden trout (Salvinus malma malma): color plate, lithographed by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Maryland, from color illustration by A.H. (Albertus Hutchinson) Baldwin (1845/Dec. 14, 1865?-March 17, 1944), in Barton Warren Evermann and Edmund Lee Goldsborough, The Fishes of Alaska (Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, vol. XXVI for 1906; Bulletin of Fisheries document no. 624, issued Dec. 6, 1907), Plate XL: The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item, via Internet Archive @ https://archive.org/details/fishesofalaska00ever/page/395/mode/1up; Public Domain, via the Library of Congress Book/Printed Material @ https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcmassbookdig.fishesofalaska00ever/?sp=205; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salvelinus_malma_malma.jpg

For further information:

"Ivishak River Dolly Varden."Alaska Department of Fish and Game > Fishing > Sport > BY Aea > Interior > North Slope.
Available @ https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=ByAreaInteriorNorthSlope.fishingOpps&fishery=Ivishak+River+Dolly+Varden

Marriner, Derdriu. 9 September 2023. "Brown Bears Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2022 September Animals." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2023/09/brown-bears-are-audubon-arctic-wall.html