Sustainable Practices in Brittany

Images showcase sustainable activities in Brittany, including oyster farming, tree logging, and community construction work against a backdrop of vibrant blue skies.

An oyster farmer passes up crates of oysters out of the water, Hoopers island, Maryland.

Self-sufficient community in Central Brittany. Plelauff, July 2020.Communaute autosuffisante en Centre Bretagne. Plelauff, Juillet 2020.

France, Brittany, Saint-Meloir-des-Ondes on 2022-06-15. Report on the Boutrais family, oyster farming company, breeding oysters in the Mont Saint-Michel Bay. It is a local short circuit where the oysters are produced as close as possible to the warehouse. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Saint-Meloir-des-Ondes le 2022-06-15. Reportage sur La Famille Boutrais, entreprise ostreiculteur, pratiquant l'elevage de l' huitre de la Baie du Mont Saint-Michel. Il s'agit d'un circuit court local où les huitres sont produites au plus près de l'entrepot. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

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A Krypton 85 light fixture is placed into position on the runway during an Operation Firefly lighting test. Subject Operation/Series: FIREFLY Base: Bogue Marine Corps Field State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Oyster farm on the Channel Island of Jersey

Using a headlamp only, harvesters collect muscles and other shellfish during a midnight low tide off the coast of western Washington.

Hammer and chisel

An oyster farmer passes up crates of oysters out of the water, Hoopers island, Maryland.

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stop at the Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company plant in Seeley Lake

Worker covering a roof with reeds, thatched house, Born am Darss, Fischland-Darss-Zingst, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Young Scallops being assessed before harvesting on Narragansett Bay

VIETNAM - The horticultural village of Sa Dec. Located in southern Vietnam in the Mekong Delta region, Sa Dec is known as the birthplace of writer Marguerite Duras. There is her autobiographical novel The Lover, award Goncourt 1984, in which she delivers the story of her first love in the heart of French Indochina."Garden of Cochin China" is Sa Dec was baptized in the mid-nineteenth century. Bonard, then French governor of Cochin China, saw a land nestled between two main arms of the Mekong and a favorable climate for floriculture. He therefore brought seeds from many species of France.It is six o'clock in the morning when the city comes to life. We start working before the big heat. At sunrise, 300 hectares of chrysanthemums, marigolds, dahlias, hydrangeas, roses, bonsai and others are revealed. At each plot, various smells are interfering with us. We are immersed in the scenery of a film by Hayao Miyazaki.Day after day, trucks and boats queue on the dock to load the more than 12 m

Europe, Romania. Viscri. Local Gypsy blacksmith shoeing an animal.

Fisherman unloading carp fish from net into iron basin to weight

Manual pruning of the vine (Vitis vinifera) with electric secateurs. Champagne vineyard, France.

Helpers harvest asparagus, Hessen, Germany.

Agriculture asparagus harvest in Mutterstadt, Palatinate

fish farmer counting fish at his farm

Preparing young Atlantic Sturgeons to be release France

Construction of a drinking well at the dacha

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Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

Hirtshals, Denmark June 3, 2025 A fisherman in the harbor takes a break next to a big bin of fishing nets.

Man looking for Ensis Charentes France

Stocking Pacific Coast 'Coho' Salmon , Rivers, Salmon. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Man building a raft in water, Grabouw Forest Park, near Cape Town, South Africa, Africa, mr

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Young man working on the water in aquaculture oyster farm maintenance

man working in a water treatment plant

Coast Guard Personnel and Civilian Operations - 26-HK-72-9. civilian offloading oil-spill boom material from truck2. Hurricane Katrina

Mature male construction worker standing in a building site.

Workers carry a bucket of spilled extracted oil. Discover oil fields. Black gold. Workers carry a bucket of spilled extracted oil. Discover oil fields. Black gold. Copyright: xZoonar.com/LazarenkaxSviatlanax 21375671

CHESAPEAKE, Va. - A HEPACO pollution response worker monitors one of the devices recovering diesel fuel spille into the intracoastal waterway after a train derailed on the A & C Canal Bridge Friday, March 26, 2010. This pipe removes fuel off of the top of the water and another device skims it from the top.

Men going through tools to repair farm equipment, three hills alberta canada

Three men use equipment to take core samples at Roxanna Marsh, Grand Calamut River in Hammond, Indiana as part of a wetland restoration effort and damage assessment process. Subjects: Wetland restoration; Monitoring; Sampling; Uniforms; Service patch; Work of the Service. Location: Indiana. . 1998 - 2011.

Beekeeper preparing an enfumoir to fill with smoke honeybees

Beekeeper preparing an enfumoir to fill with smoke honeybees

Gold panning, Saariselka, Finland

Fisherman on the sea ice of a fjord using a longline, species is Anarhichas Minor. Fishery during winter near Uummannaq in northern West Greenland beyond the Arctic Circle. Greenland, Danish territory. (Editorial Use Only)

Man placing geophones in the ground for a seismic reflective survey on the West Coast of New Zealand

oyster farm worker inspecting a harvest

Nicaragua, Managua, Workers running tests at La Chureca Industrial waste disposal site

Fishermen reeling in net

Close up on a stonemason

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

Staff Sgt. Michael Rickman, an 823rd Expeditionary RED HORSE Squadron pavements and construction equipment operator, removes a pickup pump to clean it at a well site June 29, 2015, in Honduras. The well is one of multiple projects taking place in Honduras as part of New Horizons, an annual humanitarian assistance exercise.

Self-sufficient community in Central Brittany. Plelauff, July 2020.Communaute autosuffisante en Centre Bretagne. Plelauff, Juillet 2020.

Plumber applying PTFE tape to PVC pipe at construction site

The man in wood saws a tree a chain saw

The man in wood saws a tree a chain saw

Agriculture asparagus harvest in Mutterstadt, Palatinate

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

Stocking Pacific Coast 'Coho' Salmon , Rivers, Salmon, Fishing nets. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Palmer, Alaska, A man pans for gold at the Independence Mine State Historical Park. Its one of Alaska's largest gold mining camps. It sits in the Talkeetna Mountains, across from Hatcher Pass.

Turf digger in the Hohen Venn area, Belgium, Europe

Fishermen, Fort Kochi, Cochin, Kerala, India

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

Use of a high pressure cleaner. Autoclave wood cleaning

Environmental workers banding Mourning Doves

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

220411-N-OT701-1055 WAIANAE, Hawaii (April 11, 2022) A Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) contractor finishes concrete during the final phase of an equipment removal project at Nanakuli Beach Park. The final phase of the three-phase project focuses on removing a 20-inch conduit and the top portions of three manhole/vaults, then laying colored cement over the remaining conduit trench and matching the natural rock color and surface height.

Chee Xiong, an Oregon State University STEP student, weighs steelhead prior to tagging in Eagle Creek. Biologists use this tracking information to see if the hatchery fish that are spawning here are affecting the survival and productivity of the wild fish. Subjects: Fish hatcheries; Fisheries management; Fishes; Biologists (USFWS); Employees (USFWS); Work of the Service; Tagging; Threatened species; Monitoring. Location: Oregon. Fish and Wildlife Service Site: EAGLE CREEK NATIONAL FISH HATCHERY.

Gardener with telescopic loppers

Asparagus harvest, sandy mound of earth where asparagus grows in the dark, without chlorophyll. A machine lifts the tarpaulin covering the earth before harvesting, seated or standing workers harvest by hand with a gouge, and place the asparagus directly into crates. Hoerdt, Alsace, France

Man piling dry split firewood to basket

Peasant Repairing Roof Of Traditional Barn With Tiles, Part Of Eec Project To Maintain Traditional Landscapes Run By Adept, Saxon Part Of Transylvania, Romania

220401-N-KN989-1004 WAIANAE, Hawaii (April 1, 2022) Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) contractors begin the final phase of an equipment removal project at Nanakuli Beach Park. The final phase of the three-phase project focuses on removing a 20-inch conduit and the top portions of three manhole/vaults, then laying colored cement over the remaining conduit trench and matching the natural rock color and surface height.

USA, Oregon, Winemaker inspecting the vines at Stoller vineyards in the Willamette valley, near Dundee

Peter Papatie puts gas into his generator a the local gas station in the algonquin Anicinape community of Kitcisakik in Quebec

Obed Contreras-Sosa, USACE, SWG heavy equipment operator, adds another crab trap to the stack on the shore of Old River, near Wallisville, Texas, Feb. 22, 2024.

close up view of man welding outdoors on rooftop.

man pulling a boat into a small wooden garage on coast of lake

Stocking Pacific Coast 'Coho' Salmon , Rivers, Salmon, Fishing nets. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

man working on a fish farm

Workers harvest cranberries in a flooded field.; Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Drilling a Hole

Collection of marble trout as spawner, Avisio torrent in autumn, Casatta, Val di Cembra, Trentino, Italy, Europe

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

Stockholm, Sweden Aug 17, 2024 A man chops or splits wood with an ax.

Stocking Pacific Coast 'Cohoe' Salmon , Rivers, Salmon. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Preparation of nettle manure in a vegetable garden France

Electricians assigned to the 773d Civil Engineer Squadron perform maintenance work on the star at Mount Gordon Lyon, Alaska, Aug. 30, 2022. Every year, members of the 773d CES maintain and renovate as required on the 300-foot-wide star that's become an Anchorage landmark from Thanksgiving until the last Iditarod musher makes it to Nome. The 773d CES inherited this responsibility when Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base merged in 2010.

The man in wood saws a tree a chain saw

Turf grass (Graminae sp.), machine cutting of lawn, Sweden, Europe

Obed Contreras Sosa, USACE, SWG heavy equipment operator, removes a crab trap from the shoreline of Old River near Wallisville, Texas, as part of Crab Trap Roundup 2024. Each year, the State of Texas declares a 10-day window where no crab traps are legally allowed to remain in the water. This gives community members the opportunity to remove abandoned crab traps. This years roundup was scheduled to last from Feb. 16-26.

Fishermen line up to fish for returning salmon on the bridge crossing the Seldovia Slough; Seldovia, Alaska, United States of America

Gamebird farming, trainee gamekeeper adding solulyte to water which helps prevent stress amongst young chicks in pheasant rearing sheds after transportation, England, May

France, Brittany, Saint-Meloir-des-Ondes on 2022-06-15. Report on the Boutrais family, oyster farming company, breeding oysters in the Mont Saint-Michel Bay. It is a local short circuit where the oysters are produced as close as possible to the warehouse. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Saint-Meloir-des-Ondes le 2022-06-15. Reportage sur La Famille Boutrais, entreprise ostreiculteur, pratiquant l'elevage de l' huitre de la Baie du Mont Saint-Michel. Il s'agit d'un circuit court local où les huitres sont produites au plus près de l'entrepot. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

traditional well excavation, Xullmal village, Guatemala, Central America.

Visit by Secretary Gale Norton to Montana for participation in the Western Governors' Association Forest Health Summit in Missoula, and for related tours of the area, including stop at the Pyramid Mountain Lumber Company plant in Seeley Lake

Detail of man placing drill bit into drill.

Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement staff working at site of abandoned coal mine, the Horse Creek Mine, near Pinckneyville, Illinois

Stocking Pacific Coast 'Coho' Salmon , Rivers, Salmon, Fishing nets. Photographs by Ernst Halberstadt

Farmer raking mud in ricefield in Japan

Installing a protective net against birds in a strawberry patch. France, Pas de Calais, spring

England, Northumberland, Norham. Two fishermen laying the net on the shore at Canny fishery on the River Tweed. These fishermen are fishing in a traditional method which has been used for generations.

Researchers set up a waterfowl rocket net to capture and band ducks at Canvasback Lake, YFNWR. Subjects: Work of the Service; Wildlife management; Animal Tagging; Bird banding; Habitat; Lakes; Wetlands; Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; YFNWR; Species; Birds; Waterfowl.

Angola, Mine clearence specialist preparing equipment used to look for unexploded ordenance.

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