Color Slides

Mountain pine (Pinus mugo) affected by air pollution. Tatra Mts., 1990

Grimy apartment building next to Piast in Krakow, 1977

The main gate (“Arbeit macht frei“) to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1993

Ukrainian church in the Bieszczady Mts., 1993

Wild carnations in the Tatra Mts., 1993

St. Mary’s Basilica on Krakow’s marketplace (Rynek Glowny), 1977

Floating the Dunajec River gorge in Pieniny National Park, 1978

The Olkusz forest severely impacted by drought, forest fires and mining sinkholes 1993

During communist times, meritorious workers from the industrial regions were rewarded with access to quirky weekend “homes” in the country, 1977

Turk’s cap lily in the Bieszczady Mts. 1997

Spruce forest in the Karkonosze Mts. of southwestern Poland killed by air pollution, which was particularly severe in this “Black Triangle” along the Polish, Czechoslovakian and East German borders, 1970s

The first group of CNR students at the Collegium Maius of Jagiellonian University in Krakow. On the right, Prof. W. Grodzinski communicating with Dean Trainer and Prof. H. Schabel of UWSP, 1978

One of the many historic buildings in Krakow during the worst days of air pollution, 1978

Even this seemingly healthy landscape of small-holder patchwork south of Krakow did not escape the effects of air and water pollution, 1977

Skin of a lynx from the Beskid Mts. shown by guide Anna Szczepanek, 1977

Unlike forests composed of other species, this birch forest near Olkusz has weathered the effects of air pollution. We imported seeds from this stand to test the potential of this hardy tree under urban conditions in Wisconsin, 1990

Krakow’s marketplace (Rynek Glowny), 1977

Morskie Oko Lake, a very popular destination for hikers in the Tatra National Park, 1978

The Vladimir Lenin Steelworks of Nowa Huta belching pollution east of Krakow. Conceived as a utopian ideal city it was meant to be green and livable, but next to Silesia became a horrendous source of heavy pollution and environmental degradation, 1977

UWSP’s first group arriving at the Hercules Club, a limestone formation in Ojcow National Park near Krakow, 1978

Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, 1978

Traditional farmhouse in the Jurassic Krakow-Czestochowa Upland, 1978

On the Polish-East German border at Gorlice/Görlitz along the Neisse River, with a proclamation of “Friendship” among socialist brothers, 1977

Jewish Cemetery in Prague, 1997

While woody vegetation visibly suffered under the impact of air pollution, the herbaceous flora of early summer cast a contrast

While woody vegetation visibly suffered under the impact of air pollution, the herbaceous flora of early summer cast a contrast

Floating the Dunajec River gorge in Pieniny National Park, 1990

Floating the Dunajec River gorge in Pieniny National Park, 1990

Spruce seedlings growing on the shingles of a traditional house in the Tatra Mts., 1992

Traditional farmhouse at Szentendre in Hungary, 1987

Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum) in the Tatra Mts, 1992

Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum) in the Tatra Mts, 1992

Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) in the Bieszczady Mts., 1997

East German guard (VoPo) at Under den Linden in East Berlin on July 10, 1990, just two months before Germany’s reunification

A souvenir collector chipping away at the Berlin wall, July 1990