Dried chir pine trees. A lot of these dried pine trees can be …
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
The forest fires were so intense that even after three days of …
ByAapril, all the mountain slopes with pine trees are covered …
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt forest in the Kumaon hills.
A desi bhains(buffalo) having a go at a peach tree in Sonapani, …
Burnt forest in the Kumaon hills.
The forest fires were so intense that even after three days of …
The forest fires were so intense that even after three days of …
A tank on a shrot (underground water channel), the most …
Water harvesting structures in the Kumaon hills. This house in …
Manure in front of an orchard. Leaves of trees are firest used as …
Some wild flower in the Kumaon hills.
Some wild flower in the Kumaon hills.
A view of the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
It is the accumulation of this kind of pine needles that act as …
It is the accumulation of this kind of pine needles that act as …
Even oak trees have dried in the heat this time. Kumaon hills.
Oak saplings that are burnt by fire.
Even oak trees have dried in the heat this time. Kumaon hills.
Dried chir pine trees. A lot of these dried pine trees can be seen in the Uttarakhand hills. The trees have dried up because of the heat, both of the atmosphere and the fire.
May, 1999 ,
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
The forest fires were so intense that even after three days of rain, the roots of the pine trees were still burning in the Chir Pine forests of Uttarakhand hills.
May, 1999 ,
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
ByAapril, all the mountain slopes with pine trees are covered with pine needles.
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt patches of forests in the Kumaon hills.
Burnt forest in the Kumaon hills.
A desi bhains(buffalo) having a go at a peach tree in Sonapani, Nainital.
Burnt forest in the Kumaon hills.
The forest fires were so intense that even after three days of rain, the roots of the pine trees were still burning in the Chir Pine forests of Uttarakhand hills.
May, 1999 ,
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
The forest fires were so intense that even after three days of rain, the roots of the pine trees were still burning in the Chir Pine forests of Uttarakhand hills.
May, 1999 ,
Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
A tank on a shrot (underground water channel), the most traditional way of harvesting water in the mountains of Uttarakhand. Water from these perennial shrots are stored in these tanks.
Water harvesting structures in the Kumaon hills. This house in the Satoli village, Nainital, has a concrete tank which is linked to the roof. It stores the rainwater that falls on the roof of the house. This is a part of a World Bank project for drinking water in Uttarakhand villages. People say they can have three months of drinking water from these tanks.
Manure in front of an orchard. Leaves of trees are firest used as beds for the cattle in the sattlesheds. When they decompose, they became manure, along with the cattle excreta.
Some wild flower in the Kumaon hills.
Some wild flower in the Kumaon hills.
A view of the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
Terrace farming in the Kumaon hills.
It is the accumulation of this kind of pine needles that act as gunpowder.
It is the accumulation of this kind of pine needles that act as gunpowder.
Even oak trees have dried in the heat this time. Kumaon hills.
Oak saplings that are burnt by fire.
