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$Skinner Butte Columns is a small, well-established rock climbing area in a downtown city park in Eugene, Oregon, USA. The rock is columnar basalt formed in a slow-cooling magma intrusion, resulting in relatively uniform polygons and rock of high density and excellent quality. The cliff was mined in the early 1900s, but the more fractured, unstable face resulting from mining operations has been blanketed with chainlink fence to prevent climbing on the unstable rock.$

$The southern African Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) - or Lammergeyer - is currently endangered and likely to become extinct. Originally common throughout Lesotho, the Free State, Eastern Cape Province and KwaZulu-Natal (along the Maloti-Drakensberg mountains), the Bearded Vulture now only breeds and forages across a fraction of its original range. Current (2011) population estimates are in the region of 100 breeding pairs, down from over 200 pairs 25 years ago. Here, this rarely-seen vulture-like eagle of Africa catches the sun's first rays while the grassy slopes of the high Drakensberg remain in deep shadow. Ukhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Nikon F601, 50-135/3.5. Fuji RD. Autumn 1993.$