The Old Barn
by Theresa Tahara
Title
The Old Barn
Artist
Theresa Tahara
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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This old barn is one of the many outbuildings on the Frolek Ranch in Kamloops, BC. The Frolek ranch, started in the early 1900s, is a part of BC's interior grasslands, which occupy only one per cent of the province's land mass. Many rare plant and animal species call the fragile grassland ecosystem home. In the Thompson-Nicola Valley, where annual rainfall is less than 30 centimetres, bunchgrass and sage are the dominant vegetation, with rough fescue more abundant at higher elevations. The Frolek ranch provides a safe home to a number of rare and endangered species such as the blue-listed sharp-tailed grouse, the North American badger and the burrowing owl (protected since the 1980s and the subject of an ongoing reintroduction program at the ranch). Through conservation-minded grazing and range management, generations of the Frolek family have carefully protected the environment on the ranch.
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The Old Barn
Low, swallow-swept and gray,
Between the orchard and the spring,
All its wide windows overflowing hay,
And crannied doors a-swing,
The old barn stands to-day. ~ Madison Julius Cawein
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November 2nd, 2012
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