northern images - Joel Sartore

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Northern pike (Esox lucius) at the University Lab at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.

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Northern pike (Esox lucius) at the University Lab at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.

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Northern pike (Esox lucius) at the University Lab at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul.

Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) travel a road in the Modoc Plateau of northern California to avoid heavy snow.

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Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) travel a road in the Modoc Plateau of northern California to avoid heavy snow.

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Ranch hands at the Bull and Gelding Sale in Red Bluff, California.

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Ranch hands pack bales of hay for winter in Modac County, California.

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A young boy dodges a nuzzle from a llama visiting his school in Palo Cedro, California.

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An elderly man gathers oranges in California’s citrus growing belt.

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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.