hazel flowers : 無料・フリー素材/写真
hazel flowers / NCinDC
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Facing east at Hazel Mountain Overlook, located on Skyline Drive in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. The overlook, elevation 2770 feet, is in the Rappahannock County portion of the Drive.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Began in 1931 and completed in 1939, Skyline Drive is a 105-mile road that runs the entire length of Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Skyline Drive Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2008. In addition, Skyline Drive was designated a National Scenic Byway in 2005.Via the National Park Service:"Skyline Drive is primarily significant for its leading role in the movement to conserve and enhance the Nation's natural resources in the eastern United States for enjoyment and outdoor recreation by the American public that gained momentum in the mid-1920s and continued through the 1930s. It represents efforts by the United States Government with the cooperation of the Commonwealth of Virginia to conserve the characteristic scenic and natural resources of the Central Appalachians and Blue Ridge in the form of Shenandoah National Park. Designed and constructed between 1931 and 1939, it played an important role in the efforts of the federal government to provide economic relief in the form of employment for both skilled and unskilled labor during the Great Depression. These programs included drought relief funding beginning in 1931 and the varied make-work and relief programs of the New Deal era (1933 to 1942) including the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration (PWA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA). These programs not only promoted economic stability but moreover reflected the social-humanitarian purposes of the New Deal, advanced the conservation of natural areas, and expanded the recreational resources of the nation."-------------------------------------------------------------------Established in 1935 and dedicated the following year by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Shenandoah National Park is 199,100 acres situated between the Shenandoah Valley and Virginia Piedmont. Almost 80,000 acres of the park is designated as wilderness and protected by the National Wilderness Preservation System.Via National Geographic:"Skyline Drive, which runs for 105 miles along the crest of the Blue Ridge mountains, is flanked by a rumpled panorama of forests and mountains. To many who travel the drive, the highway itself is a park, complete with numerous deer sightings along the way. But the cars are passing the real Shenandoah. More than 500 miles of trails can be reached from Skyline Drive, and the Appalachian Trail roughly parallels it for nearly its entire length.The long, narrow park flows outward, upward, and downward from the highway that splits it. The drive, following ridge trails walked by Indians and early settlers, transports visitors to a park built on a frontier that lingered into modern times.Unlike most national parks, Shenandoah is a place where settlers lived for over a century. To create the park, Virginia state officials acquired 1,088 privately owned tracts and donated the land to the nation. Never before had a large, populated expanse of private land been converted into a national park. And never before had planners made a park of land so used by humans. Before the park opened and during its early days, some 465 families moved or were moved from their cabins and resettled outside the proposed park boundaries. A few mountaineers, though, lived out their lives in the park and were buried in the secluded graveyards of Shenandoah's vanished settlements.Much of Shenandoah consisted of farmland and second- or third-growth forests logged since the early 1700s. Today the marks of lumbering, grazing, and farming have mostly disappeared, as forests have slowly come back.Spring arrives first in the park valleys and then moves upward. Walking up a valley trail, a visitor can follow spring's path and see, in a single day, a variety of flowers that bloom elsewhere over a span of weeks Shenandoah National Park was built by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a government jobs program created during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Workers constructed the rock walls, overlooks, picnic grounds, campgrounds, trails, and the Skyline Drive. They also planted the mountain laurel that lines the road, and built more than 340 structures in the park, many now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The work of the CCC is commemorated by a statue of a CCC worker, Iron Mike." |
| 撮影日 | 2013-04-02 12:12:04 |
| 撮影者 | NCinDC , Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA |
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| 撮影地 | Skyland, Virginia, United States 地図 |
| カメラ | Canon PowerShot S90 , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |
| 焦点距離 | 6 mm |