Manhattan Project B Reactor, first large scale nuclear reactor in the world, used for creating the plutonium from uranium that went into the atomic bomb Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Hanford Site, Richland, Washington State. Now one of the largest environmental clean up efforts in the world.

Center of the control room in the first large scale nuclear reactor in the world, the Manhattan Project B Reactor, from which the plutonium that went into the atomic bomb Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki, Japan was created. Hanford Site, Richland, Washington State. Now one of the largest environmental clean up efforts in the world.

Signs from Hanford Site, the decommissioned nuclear production complex in Richland, Washington, location of the one of the largest environmental clean ups of contamination in the world, and the largest EPA Superfund effort.

Recent logging, with the smell of saw dust and wood – Washington

Logging in Washington

Logging – Washington

Rail yards – Kansas City, Missouri

Open-pit coal mine – British Columbia

Sun being choked out by forest fires in Washington state.

Logged forests of the Pacific Northwest

Wind farm near Vantage, Washington

In Oregon, USDA and fire trucks from as far as San Diego, trying to do something about the forest fires, which reduced visibility to where even the hill to the right of the highway could not even be seen.

Morning looks like dusk in forest fire smoked out Medford, Oregon.

Abandoned mining town structure, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

In the bowels of a mine. San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Abandoned mine. San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

Los Angeles beaches, July 5th.

Los Angeles beaches, July 5th.

Los Angeles beaches, July 5th.