Watershed wildfire

1958 ARC Identifier 13524 / Local Identifier 95.226. Documentary record of 36 hours of campaign firefighting by three cooperating agencies. Includes a hard-driving lesson on human carelessness with fire. Explains how U.S. Marines, California fire fighting personnel, and Indian forest fire fighters cooperated with the Forest Service in controlling the 1955 fire in the Los Padres National Forest in California, which destroyed its vegetation. Emphasizes the need for immediate reseeding to prevent floods. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Division of State and Private Forestry. Fire and Aviation Management Staff. (1986) Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran. LINK: Youtube

Two-inch gap at 35mph?

She didn’t have to swerve, or even apply the brakes. With just a flap and a twist this swallow swooped through a two-inch gap in a locked barn door.

She managed to maneuver all 14 inches worth of wingspan inside without ruffling a feather.

The astonishing display of aerobatics was captured by a photographer sitting in the agricultural shed.

Wildlife photographer Keith Ringland, who took the pictures, said: ‘The swallow used a different, much bigger hole in the roof to leave the building. LINK