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Name: Thomas Wilding
Location: New Zealand
Date: Feb 2007
Caption: Gully restoration success! Golden bell frog (Litoria aurea) on flax (Phormium tenax).
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Location: Rocky Mountain National Park
Date: August, 2007
Caption: Nature invaded by beauty (Rocky Mountain National Park with Carduus nutans) | | Name: Alex Fife
Location: Horsetooth Lake
Date: 09/2007
Caption: Just an act of nature, as the rabbit quietly passes by giving off no warning or uncomfort. A great animal seen in it's most natural habitat |
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Name: Randi Frazier
Location: Yosemite National Park
Date: 07/2007
Caption: Taking a stroll in Yosemite National Park when we suddenly came face to face with...a bear!
| | Name: Amy Blair
Location: Somewhere in the middle of Wyoming.
Date: Summer 2005
Caption: My mom diligently traveled western North America with me for 6 weeks surveying knapweed sites. Living out of a very dusty S-10, she never complained and happily collected data in 100 degree weather. | | Name: Shannon Spencer
Location: Southern Minnesota
Date: October, 2007
Caption: "The Human Dimension of Soil Sampling: smiles and laughter when dealing with the mundane!" Subjects: Adam Walters, Michael Chang, Drew Ernakovich taken by Shannon Spencer. |
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Name: Katie Driver
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park
Date: July 2007
Caption: High above a spectacular sub-alpine wetland perched in a glacial cirque in Rocky's backcountry. | | Name: Annikki Chamberlain
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park
Date: August 2007
Caption: Camped at 10,000 feet we encountered this porcupine who invaded our camp to feast on bark and our sweaty backpack straps. | | Name: Lindsay Reynolds
Location: Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Date: 05/2007
Caption: A long-eared owl feldgling hiding in the willows near the wash in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. The photo is a collage of two photos, I ventured too close and the bird tried to look intimidating, eventhough it couldn't fly. |
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Name: Toby Gass
Location: Trampas burn, Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico
Date: July 2004
Caption: Taken during my master's research on a day that everything went wrong...except for this photo. | | Name: Thomas A. Grant III
Location: Denver Botanic Gardens - Endangered Species Garden
Date: June 2002
Caption: The round-leaf 4 O'clock (Oxybaphus rotundifolius) is a rare plant of the Arkansas River Valley. This ex-situ specimen is part of a seed banking and restoration project at Denver Botanic Gardens. | | Name: Thomas A. Grant III
Location: Capital Reef National Park - Sand Wash
Date: May 2006
Caption: The Wonderland-Alice flower (Gilia caespitosa) is only found in Wayne County, Utah. The picture was taken during a rare plant survey and demographic monitoring project in Capital Reef National Park.
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Name: Dan Auerbach
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park
Date: August 2007
Caption: The surrounding forest reflected in a spring-fed pool of a high mountain peatland. Across the surface of the water grows narrow leaved burreed, Sparganium angustifolium. | | Name: Virginia Sednek
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park -Kawuneeche Valley (West side of park)
Date: June 2006
Caption: Myself holding a chrous frog (Pseudacris triseriata) when surveying for amphibians in the Kawuneeche Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park. I picked it up to take a picture because I was intrigued by its unique golden color.
| | Name: Christine Sednek
Location: Rocky Mountain National Park -Kawuneeche Valley (West side of park)
Date: June 2006
Caption: Picture of my sisiter, Virginia, and a wood frog (Rana sylvatica) during an amphibian survey, part of USGS research. |
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Name: Madeline Scheintaub
Location: Shortgrass Steppe LTER, Colorado
Date: May 2007
Caption: Bright orange Sphaeralcea coccinea adds splashes of color to the shortgrass steppe in early summer. |
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Name: Apple Snider
Location: Mesa Verde National Park, CO
Date: July 2006
Caption: Enjoying a quiet day at Mug House in Mesa Verde National Park on a rare day off from field work. |
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Name: Jessie Dulberger
Location: Boulder, CO
Date: 9/2005
Caption: This a beautiful fall picture of my study area in the front range in Boulder. The brillant red sumac and crisp contrasting blue mountain backdrop was amazing that day, and hasn't been that dramatic since 2005. |
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Name: Betsy Goodrich
Location: Absaroka Range, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Date: July, 2007
Caption: Bigfoot? Absaroka Man? After a rainstorm washed out the bridge on this semi-deserted road, we found these footprints around the area...with no other tire or bike tracks in sight.
| | Name: Sara Simonson
Location: Snow Pit on Red Mountain Pass, San Juan Mountains, CO
Date: April 2007
Caption: We dug this snow pit to take measurements for snow system monitoring in the San Juan Mountains, CO. It reminds me of the importance of our seasonal snowpack as the water towers of the west, a critical resource for plants, animals, and people.
| | Name: Jennifer Klutsch
Location: Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Date: August 2007
Caption: High elevation whitebark and limber pine killed in the Willow Creek fire.
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