Keyword: national
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These are steelhead salmon smolts (Oncorhynchus mykiss) being raised at a hatchery. They will soon be transported to release streams in the hope that some of them will survive their migration to the sea; but the heavily dammed Columbia river and its tributaries have become an obstacle course for several imperiled species. In addition the Native Americans, to whom the salmon runs are crucial, find fishing very poor. (US: Threatened)
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ESA001-00165
Unplanned product of a foster-parent program for endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana), a “whoopill” was sired out of a whooper out of a great Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis canadensis). Having failed to produce a single breeding female, biologists have abandoned their efforts to create a viable flock of whooping cranes, whose numbers in the wild have crept from 51 in 1973 to about 165 today. Many think that, rather than struggling to restore a creature so near extinction, efforts should be concentrated on species in the early stages of danger.
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ESA001-00157
South of Los Angeles the implacable sprawl of single-family homes like these has reached critical mass. Or so think local environmentalists, who are challenging new developments to safeguard dwindling parcels of coastal sage scrub, habitat of the California gnatcatcher. Increasingly, developers compromise by setting aside land for imperiled species.
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ESA001-00158
Hit-and-run victims on Florida’s busy waterways, injured manatees maintain vital buoyancy only with the aid of inflatable wet suits at Orlando’s Sea World.
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ESA001-00159
A prodigy of adaptation, the endangered least tern (Sterna albifrons) survived the test of evolution by nesting on barren sandbars, protected from predators by the swift flow of surrounding rivers. These moated habitats are created by naturally occurring spring floods, which humans now spend millions to prevent.
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ESA001-00160
This tiny snail darter (Percina tanasi) stalled the construction of Tellico dam on the Little Tennessee river. Though the dam was built, the Endangered Species Act was henceforth seen in many quarters as an enemy of progress.
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ESA001-00161
This bird earned questionable notoriety as a job buster. It is the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis), listed as threatened in 1990; it w as expected to cause thousands of job losses by disrupting logging in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The actual cost of protection to the regional economy is not yet known.
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ESA001-00156
Fragmentation of fragile habitat has added to the woes of the once-hardy desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizi). They are collected from soon-to-be-developed lands and sent to a center where they are adopted, euthanized (if ill), or used for research.
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PEO003-00406
Portrait of a cattleman through a windshield standing with his horse on Hot Spings ranch north of Salmon, Idaho.
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PEO003-00400
A rancher’s dog expresses displeasure by snarling at photographer, Joel Sartore, on a ranch in Idaho.
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A lamb leaps up after being relieved of his tail for better sanitation purposes by Bureau of Land Management workers on federal grazing lands in southern Wyoming.
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PEO003-00402
A grandfather poses with his granddaughters at his cattle ranch at the edge of the Mojave desert near Goffs, California.
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PEO003-00403
A child is helped ride a sheep during the “mutton busting” event at the annual rodeo in Leadore, Idaho.
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PEO003-00404
A sun-enhanced shower falls on Lemhi county residents who came to the town of Salmon for the annual Salmon River Days festival.
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PEO003-00405
A rancher drives cattle fattened on public land to his employer’s ranch in Lemhi County, Idaho.
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Hot breath of active volcanoes rises from roiling thermal pool fields in Chile’s Atacama desert.
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Two tourist are transfixed by the otherworldly terrain of the Valley of the Moon in Chile’s Atacama desert.
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The desert dwarfs the one road from Calama to San Pedro de Atacama.
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PEO001-00146
Aymara woman with her llama herd on the desolate landscape of the high Chilean Atacama desert.
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PEO001-00147
Miners masked against sun and cold carve up the land in search of borax in Chile’s Atacama desert.
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PEO001-00148
Abandoned cemetery, Atacama Desert, Chile
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PEO001-00144
A street in San Pedro de Atacama as the day comes to an end.
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PEO001-00145
Police, seen through the windshield of a truck, stop visitors speeding in Chile’s Atacama desert.
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PEO026-00012
A reverend prays with residents of Roxbury before escorting a mayorial candidate through the area in Boston, Massachusets.
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Edward Hatch Memorial Shell concert of the Boston Pops orchestra on the Charles river in Boston, Massachusets.
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Coffee vendor walking with commuter cars in line outside the Sumner tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts.
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An aerial of the 97th annual Boston Marathon entrants in Massachusetts.
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Two pet dogs mouth the same ball in Boston Common, the oldest public park in American history, in Massachusetts.
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Old North Church visitors in private stalls praying in Boston, Massachusetts.
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PEO026-00004
Massachusetts House of Representatives in session. It is located in the State House on Beacon Hill in Boston.
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Fenway stadium during a night baseball game showing fans and players in Boston, Massachusetts.
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A person running on a roof top track at the Boston Racquet Club.
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A tourist films a replica of the desk in the Oval office in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Two young boys pose behind colonial cutouts at the Boston Tea Party ship in Boston harbor, Massachusetts.
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Beacon street town house condominiums and residents in Boston, Massachusets.
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Children at a birthday party at Charlestown’s Bunker Hill housing project in Boston, Massachusetts.
