Ryan Skeels - "Photo of a fawn near Manistique Michigan in the Upper Penninsula in June of 2005. This was taken while working for the the Forest Inventory Analysis for the USFS."

Joe Decant - "It's a picture of a cicada killer after it had paralyzed a cicada. The two had fallen from an upper canopy cottonwood branch and struggled for about a minute. The cicada killer proceeded to drag the cicada up the trunk of a nearby cottonwood. I took the photo at the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque, NM, on July 27."

Chelsea Nordick - "this is poppy, the baby malayan sun bear, taken in kao look chang, thailand, approx july 21, 2005 at the wildlife rescue centre. my name is chelsea nordick, and i volunteered/interned there last summer."

Mark Davis - "This female prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis) was photographed on 28 October 2004 at a traditional rattlesnake hibernacula near Timber Lake South Dakota. Data were collected on this and other indviduals as a part of a M.S. theis project."

Patrick Alan Shively - "...i was doing an internship in Costa Rica the summer of 2004. i was living on the Osa Peninsula on the south-western side of Costa Rica near a small village named Drake Bay. the photo is of a local tree frog which frequented my room every morning along with the white faced cappuchin monkeys!"

Amanda Broz - "Spotted knapweed seedling growing in solid media taken in Shepardson Bldg, CSU, mid december 2005."

Kelly Hardwicke - "This photo was taken during my dissertation research...on the Pawnee National Grassland. This solitary andrenid bee was sleeping within a Sphaeralcea coccinea flower...For scale, S. coccinea flowers are approximately the size of a nickel."

Laurel Hartley - "Plains Prickly Pear on the Pawnee Grasslands circa 2000"

Eli Knapp - "This is a photo of me (on neck in brown shirt) helping to remove a snare from a giraffe's leg. To get the snare off, first we had to anesthetize it, lasso it cowboy-style, and then hold the powerful neck down with 4 people to prevent the giraffe from thrashing around and injuring the snare removers."

Danielle Bilyeu - June 30, 2005, Yellowstone National Park "Kirsten Romig is using a pressure chamber to measure midday shoot water potentials of willows. This is a way to assess drought stress."

Seth Magle - "Just for fun, here's a photo for the contest. This would be an extreme example of habitat fragmentation. It was taken in Summer 2002 in Denver, Colorado. That's a black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)."

Charlie Blackburn - "...I took this photo last summer while attending Pingree Park. It is looking down off of the "Mummy" about a quarter mile from Rocky Mountain National Park."

Julia McCarthy - "This photo is of South Fork Ranch Creek in the Fraser River Basin outside of Fraser/Winter Park, CO. It was taken in October of 2005 during my field work."

Jon Freeman - "Here's one of my favorite's. This was taken in the summer of 2003 near Crescent, OR. This is the Davis fire, where I conducted my MS research on the effects of fire on non-native plant invasion."

Mike Battaglia - "Description: An attempt to induce patchy overstory mortality with prescribed fire was successful in a ponderosa pine forest located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The picture was taken 8 months post-fire in the Summer of 2005."

Rebecca Mazur - "This photo was taken near Wakeeney, KS on April 10th, 2005. It was one of a dozen or so tornadoes that touched down in the west central Kansas region and was spawned from a minisupercell thunderstorm that was apart of a large storm system that produced tornadoes in KS and a blizzard in CO."

Mark Pieper - "The picture was taken July 13, 2004 near Tok, AK, while conducting a large burnout with the Wyoming Hotshots."

Madeline Scheintaub - "Storm in south-central Idaho, May 9, 2005. There was no out running this one."

Rod Simpson - June 6, 2005, Toolik Lake LTER, Alaska. "View of Moist Acidic (where we have research plots) and Moist Non-Acidic Tundra sites on the other side of Toolik Lake."

Mark Gathany - "Field site picture 1. Picnic Rock burn area ca. May 2005."

Max Levitt - "This picture was taken on the way up to the summit at Horsetooth."

Jill Oropeza - "This photo was taken in Loch Vale Watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park in July, 2004 while I was doing field work. This is the view looking east off the bottom of Timberline Falls."

Molly Cavaleri - " This is a 140 ft tower where we measure ecosystem carbon flux of a virgin tropical rainforest at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. I took the picture from the top of another tower (about 115 ft tall) where I was measuring canopy photosynthesis and respiration.

Angie Moline - "Pleasant Creek, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah October 2004"

Nate Beckman - "Attached is a photo taken in Northeastern Colorado at Tamarack Ranch State Wildlife Area. I'm working on a master's degree in Watershed Science and this is a photo of the field site where I'm taking water quality samples. It was taken around March 15th 2005."