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The way west; the Alpine oil field spreads out into the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. This huge expanse of critical wetland has just been opened to drilling by the Bush Administration even though most of the waterfowl in North America use the area as critical nesting grounds.

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Rough-skinned newts rest on a bed of mosses and lichens in the old-growth rainforest of Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada.)

Critically endangered (IUCN) lemur leaf frogs (Hylomantis lemur), from the Panama, population, at Zoo Atlanta. This male and female frog are in amplexus, a state in which the male latches onto the female prior to egg laying and fertilization.

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Critically endangered (IUCN) lemur leaf frogs (Hylomantis lemur), from the Panama, population, at Zoo Atlanta. This male and female frog are in amplexus, a state in which the male latches onto the female prior to egg laying and fertilization.

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A large sage grouse lek of 69 birds in Pinedale, Wyoming. Although this Big Sandy Recreation Area is still intact and pristine, no one can say for how long, as it has been targeted for drilling.

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Restoration architect Mike Rindone on The Sower, a sculpture atop the Nebraska state capitol building in Lincoln. The sculpture and building were restored in 2001.

A Norhayati's flying frog (Rhacophorus norhayatii) from a private collection.

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A Norhayati’s flying frog (Rhacophorus norhayatii) from a private collection.

European fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra bernardezi) at the St. Louis Zoo.

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European fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra bernardezi) at the St. Louis Zoo.

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Male greater prairie-chicken booming in Oklahoma.

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A man photographs a critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) at the Gavin’s Point National Fish Hatchery in Yankton, SD.

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A flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris) at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery, Yankton, South Dakota.

A spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera) at the aquarium at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery.

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A spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera) at the aquarium at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery.

A boreal toad (Anaxyrus boreas boreas) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

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A boreal toad (Anaxyrus boreas boreas) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

An endangered golden poison dart frog or terrible poison dart frog (Phyllobates terribilis) at the Rolling Hills zoo.

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An endangered golden poison dart frog or terrible poison dart frog (Phyllobates terribilis) at the Rolling Hills zoo.

Picture of a federally endangered, American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) at the Kansas City Zoo.

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A federally endangered, American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) at the Kansas City Zoo.

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A maned wolf takes its own picture by triggering a camera trap’s infra-red beam in Brazil’s Pantanal. The species has developed very long legs which are useful for seeing over the tall grasses in the region.

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A captive wolf at the International Wolf Center near Ely, MN, defends a road-killed deer carcass from the other members of its pack.

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The opening spread for Gray Wolves in the May 1998 issue of National Geographic Magazine.

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The cover of the March, 1995 issue of National Geographic Magazine shows juvenile red wolf (endangered) netted for study and release.

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Bob Danielson, a member of the Ojibwa tribe, wears a wolf pelt at a Minnesota pow wow.

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Hayley Jolma, is comforted by her mother, Karen Jolma, after they discovered that one of the family’s calves had been killed by wolves in the night. (Western MT)

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Four wolf pelts lie draped over the back of a federal official’s truck near Helena, MT. These wolves once formed a pack that was killed to assuage local ranchers’ fears that they might someday kill cattle.