It is fairly easy to identify limestone features on an OS map. The names of features are shown on the map, eg Raven Scar or White Scar Caves. You can also see intermittent drainage patterns as the ...

A PROJECT aimed at rejuvenating some of the North-East's most spectacular areas of countryside has been given the go-ahead after getting a cash boost from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Durham County ...

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has made a habit of bucking the trend by working to safeguard neglected landscapes that are not necessarily a priority for other conservation organizations. Arguably ...

To Jeffrey Wolin, the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center in New York City represent the limestone ”landscapes” of mountains moved by men in the stone quarries of southern Indiana. Wolin, a ...

A unique seminar entitled Interpreting the Landscape, takes place in the Model Arts and Niland Gallery on Thursday 10th March at 3.30 pm, to coincide with the opening of The Limestone Barrens Project ...

The Kinman wildfire last July on northern Vancouver Island proved to be small by B.C. standards, at 166 hectares, but is doing a lot to expose the dangers of clearcut logging over a limestone karst ...

The relative importance of these land uses will vary depending on the nature of the rocks and the physical landscape. Water storage and supply will be more important in a glaciated area such as the ...

The relationship between people and the landscape is as inseparable as that of our connection with the air we must breathe if we are not to become, in short order, a part of the landscape.People exist ...