Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Boom

Photo: Greater sage grouse displaying near Pinedale, Wyoming.

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Greater sage grouse displaying near Pinedale, Wyoming. This area is being developed for natural gas drilling.

Photo: Joel Sartore on assignment for NGM, by Gerald Herbert/AP. An oil covered pelican sits stuck in thick beached oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010.

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Joel Sartore on assignment for NGM, by Gerald Herbert/AP. An oil covered pelican sits stuck in thick beached oil at Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert – Call 402.474.1006 for licensing info.)

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Close-up of the wing of a greater sage grouse near Craig, CO.

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Close-up of the wing of a greater sage grouse near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male and female greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

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Male greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a display ground near Craig, CO.

Photo: An aerial of an watercraft cutting through the surface oil near the deep water horizon spill site in the Gulf of Mexico.

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An aerial of an watercraft cutting through the surface oil near the deep water horizon spill site in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photo: An aerial of watercraft cutting through the surface oil near the deep water horizon spill site in the Gulf of Mexico.

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An aerial of watercraft cutting through the surface oil near the deep water horizon spill site in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photo: An aerial of heavily oiled marshlands surrounded by oil booms in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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An aerial of heavily oiled marshlands surrounded by oil booms in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

Photo: Oil booms were deployed to defend Cat Island, Louisiana (an important bird rookery) from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Oil booms were deployed to defend Cat Island, Louisiana (an important bird rookery) from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. They proved largely ineffective.

Photo: Oil booms deployed to protect the bird rookery at Cat Island, Louisiana, from the Deepwater Horizon spill proved largely ineffective.

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Oil booms deployed to protect the bird rookery at Cat Island, Louisiana, from the Deepwater Horizon spill proved largely ineffective.

Photo: A former shrimping boat now trawls for oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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A former shrimping boat now trawls for oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

Photo: Aerial view of the oil booms deployed around Queen Bess Island in an attempt to protect it from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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Aerial view of the oil booms deployed around Queen Bess Island in an attempt to protect it from the Deepwater Horizon spill. They proved largely ineffective in keeping this important bird rookery safe from oil.

Photo: A crew of BP contract workers remove booms saturated with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from important bird breeding habitat in the Gulf of Mexico.

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A crew of BP contract workers remove booms saturated with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill from important bird breeding habitat in the Gulf of Mexico.

Photo: A boat pulls booms over the water in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, cleaning up oil from the Deepwater Horizon Spill.

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A boat pulls booms over the water in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, cleaning up oil from the Deepwater Horizon Spill.

A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

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A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

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A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

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A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

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A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis), covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. The bird was taken to a rehab center.

A man holds a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

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A man holds a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

Brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) and their chicks, covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Cat island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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Brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) and their chicks, covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Cat island in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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