Monday, May 31, 2010

Tattoos On The Pubic Area

Days workshops
















As often discussed on this blog, the Managing Commission of Terrils Borinage has two main objectives:
- protect ancient land mining the last refuges of fauna and flora become rare
- educating, communicating and sharing, to ensure the future of the land and promote respect for the environment.
this in mind one afternoon entertainment was offered to children attending primary schools in the municipal education and free Colfontaine. Fifty of them have responded positively to this appeal and participated in five different workshops on the theme of conservation.
Twenty members of the Management Committee assisted by a few volunteer teachers have guided and accompanied throughout the afternoon. How
kids interested if not by the game? So as fun activities that topics such as eco-consumption, waste management, nature in the garden, the awakening of the senses, etc.. were discussed.
After nearly three hours of crafts, puzzles, games and various activities, the fifty children were delighted and have found a snack, conquered and sensitized their parents.
They want more.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Itchy Bumps On Scrotum

Presentation Presentation

Introduction

Nature Reserve and surroundings Marcasse began in October 2007 under the leadership of two local nature lovers: Yves Carlier and Jeremy Denis, who currently provide conservation.
This nature reserve is part of the reserve network of the Association of Conservation Natagora asbl. It is managed by the Board of Management Terrils Borinage.


This reserve contains a mosaic of diverse terrain, all from the mining history of the region. This is the case of heaps or areas resulting exploitation of old dumps. The

heaps consist of an accumulation of waste (mainly schist) from the mining of previous centuries.
Some dumps have been the subject of planting to stabilize slopes, but overall they were left to themselves after the cessation of coal mining in the Borinage (end of first half of the twentieth century ).

The heaps are, originally, pristine ecosystems of vegetation, with the specific abiotic very pronounced: steep slopes, good sun exposure for certain payments, mainly schist or gravelly soil, very dry with a significant drainage and rapid facies overall quite troubled with many micro-habitats,
... These characteristics have allowed the heaps of to host a fauna and flora very diverse, even original compared to all the surrounding region.
However, with time and lack of management of these habitats, dumps tend to become covered with forest vegetation is no longer possible in this original ecosystem to exist. While these aspects of forestry can be interesting from a naturalistic point of view and landscape dumps are unfortunately over the years, their biodiversity is commonplace.


This trivialisation of the flora and fauna of justifies the action of man. And that's where our role begins as an actor in a nature reserve. Stopper, from tips that we deal with, the progress of the forest edge and allow open ecosystems or semi-open-exist within a complex natural mosaic.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, human activities disrupt the normal cycle and comprehensive nature. And stage the most common nowadays is the forest stage. It is therefore interesting, in some places to maintain open areas to allow flora and fauna, which it is specialized to maintain and survive for future generations.

It is this goal we are trying to reach the nature reserve of Mark and surroundings. Assisted by many volunteers, we try to sustain biodiversity in these dumps as rich as possible.


Location

Marcasse Nature Reserve and surroundings is Belgium. More specifically in the province of Hainaut, twenty miles south of the city of Mons.
The heaps are found in an old coal region: the Coal-mining, specifically in the town of Colfontaine and former village Wasmes.


Operation

Marcasse Nature Reserve and surrounding area is managed by the Board of Management Terrils Borinage member of the Association of Conservation Natagora asbl.

The commission is also responsible for managing the nature reserve "Terril Frederick "Located on the town of Dour.
The committee assignments as management and protection of lands from mining heritage Borinage and the promotion of nature reserves in her care.

To manage the reserves of the Commission, construction sites "nature" are held monthly from September to April. These sites are open to all, and we offer participants the tasks suited to their physical abilities.
For dates, please contact the Conservatives or monitor information provided by this blog regularly.

Besides activities related to ecosystem management "heaps", the Commission is also responsible for a multitude of activities aimed at raising awareness of the heaps, protection of nature and the environment, etc..
These objectives are expressed through specific activities, tours, educational projects, actions directed to schools, ...


Interest Reserve

Besides biodiversity, which is presented below, the vast richness of this subject also comes its position on the outskirts of a densely populated and built: the Borinage. This heap is a peri-urban reserves, which contributes fully to the green network in the middle of the conurbation of Mons-Borinage. This reserve is an island nature reserves between the multiple of the valley of the Haine and the natural park of High Country.

Future development and extension

If the reserve is now limited to the heap of Mark and a wasteland surrounding area and its land is still close to a natural area of the first importance.
By adding adjacent lands (Bing VI and the area will result from the heap XVIII), this area encompasses a multitude of natural habitats on an area of more than 35 hectares, all with a very rich biodiversity.

The Management of Terrils Borinage working since its creation, the realization of this great natural area. It is in the context of this work that the reservation was extended to the wasteland and the whole heap of Marcasse while it was originally limited to a portion of the slag heap of Mark.

The realization of this nature reserve is not utopian, contacts have already been developed very taken with the various landowners in question (common inter).
In the near future, so we can expect the creation of a large nature reserve within the Borinage.

Accessibility

The reserve is accessible freely and without restriction. It is, however, asked visitors to respect the highest places, to preserve the peace, not to leave garbage, and if possible to maintain existing trails so as not to disturb the whole area.
For more information about what is possible you can contact one of the curators.

Access train: Mons-Tournai-Mons Quiévrain, stopping at the station of Saint-Ghislain
Bus: From Saint-Ghislain line 1 to Mons, stop up Wasmes (20min walk) to the Mount Street -Leville along the town hall, 500 meters, turn right onto Wilson Street (strong side), 2 km later turn right onto Rue de Marco, the heap is at the end of this road.

By car: Brussels-Paris motorway (E42), exit 25 Saint-Ghislain, take direction until Colfontaine Place Wasmes take Rue Mont-Leville along the town hall, 500 meters, turn right onto Wilson Street (Strong side), 2 km later turn right onto Rue de Marco, the heap is at the end of this road.

The site is not suitable for the disabled, and requires good physical condition if you want to go to the top of the heap.

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Reserve Reserve: The "Bing Marcasse" Presentation

The reserve and its biodiversity


area into a nature reserve on the slag heap of Marcasse covers a large part of this heap. The reserve area covers an area of 8.85 hectares.
Marcasse The industrial site was closed in 1958. Since that time, the tip is free of development and activity. He suffered a natural afforestation.
The soil is composed, like all the tips, by waste slate. This heap has not entered into combustion.
The characteristics of this type of site are many: poor soil and gravel absorbing much of the sunlight, slopes and amplitudes often mobile, multiple exposures, site recently devoid of any vegetation, lack of management and planning, presence of areas much earlier than the rest of the heap ...
All these characteristics, and many others, creates a great diversity of habitats over a limited area.

The diversity of plant zonation on the heap of Marcasse is very important. It's going to find ancient woodlands, wooded areas far more recent areas of slopes with a mobile facies unstable areas of dense birch, birch clear zones, open areas in the open lawn, a wetland. ..


This multitude of environments enables the implementation of a remarkable procession of flora and fauna for Borinage. Among the
fauna, there are many forest birds (tawny owl, the long-eared owl, various peaks, etc..), different grasshoppers whose blue-winged grasshopper, several mammals (foxes, deer, rodents, various, etc..), etc. .
Among the flora are: the Cotton dwarf the Sablin leaved thyme, fireweed to lanceolate, the Inula Conyza, the Thrincie the Carline vulgaris, Nodding thistle, etc..
However, although the diversity of ecosystems is still important now, what knows a heap consequent natural afforestation. Without intervention, the overall facies Bing tends towards a wooded area currently widespread, which would lose its rich biological diversity by standardizing natural habitats.


management conducted by the Board of Management Terrils Borinage is thus mainly to conserve the biodiversity of the heap maintaining ecosystems present on the heap and developing those with the greatest wealth.
The actions can be summarized in:

Ø Maintaining the open nature of some areas (birch clear ...)
Ø Maintenance and expansion of open areas (grasslands) present on the slopes,
Ø Transformation Summit in a large open area with a lawn uppermost facies,
Ø Expansion and maintenance of the wetland at the bottom of this heap,
Ø Fight against invasive species: Cherry, Cape groundsel, knotweed Japan ...

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Reserve: The "Wasteland"

The reserve and its biodiversity
Fallow land lies between the No. 3 Big Bing Bush, "said Bing XVIII, and the residence of the Court. This small
wasteland results actually operating a small heap in the mid 80s. This resulted in a flat surface, consisting of a schist pretty poor. This field has not been programmed for reforestation at the time, so that the vegetation there is imposed is essentially composed of pioneer species of poor soil or ruderal species.
A planting of woody species was conducted in the late 90s, along the residence of the Court, to form a barrier between this subdivision and the proposed development XVIII of the heap. This plantation was conducted online with a few meters from the houses of residence, very localized.
The vegetation of the area is essentially composed of herbaceous species. However, many shrubs are found scattered in the wasteland. The east side is forested (plantation and natural afforestation).

The area of the moor is 2.53 hectares. Its shape is generally rectangular.
be found in the north of the moor, meadow now abandoned. The eastern borders of the moor the residence of the Court. In the south, is traditionally an agricultural land occupied by a rotation wheat - corn. Along the west side, there is a gap wooded area near the heap of XVIII. Description of biotope

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mapping zonation of vegetation on the moor
Ø Woodland (color coded green on the map)
Ø Neighbourhood Area (color code blue on the map)
Ø Roncier (color code red plan)
Ø Zone with little herbaceous grasses (color code orange on the map)
Ø Zone herbaceous dominated by grasses (color code gray on the map)

The vegetation of the fallow land is mainly low vegetation dominated by grasses. This
low vegetation and open up the vast wealth of this area. Indeed there are today less and less comparable ecosystems in our region.



While most of the vegetation is low and open, there are still a small wooded area on eastern edge of the wasteland. This zone results from a plantation made late 90. Some important brambles are also scattered in this area. The wasteland is also
surrounded by a cordon of trees constituting a real belt.
The whole tree vegetation offers considerable diversity to the area by bringing food and shelter for many animal species (birds, insects, mammals, ...).

Among the grass areas are found two zonations, one with a low floristic diversity very important and the other much higher where there are essentially only one species of grass invasive behavior significantly: the Calamagrostis sp .



Management by the Board of Management Terrils Borinage is to preserve the open character of the area while working to develop its biodiversity.
We therefore maintain the woody vegetation at a level acceptable and compatible with the objectives of the open area around and within the moor. Our goal is to preserve enough trees and shrubs to provide the functions of shelter and food for wildlife, while maintaining a sufficient level to avoid flooding the zone.


management is also conducted several annual mowing in the open area. In this way we try contain the beaches of Calamagrostis, so that this species completely dominates the area and allow a greater diversity of herbaceous flora. By mowing, we also maintain poor soil which increases the possibilities for diversification of the flora.