Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: nwr

Picture of a prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea) tending to its nest in a Cypress tree in the Cache River National Wildlife Refugee, Arkansas.

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A prothonotary warbler (Protonotaria citrea) tends to its nest in a Cypress tree in the Cache River National Wildlife Refugee, Arkansas.

Picture of a Bison at the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska near Valentine, Nebraska.

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A Bison at the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge near Valentine, Nebraska.

A road-killed bobcat (Lynx rufus) that has been placed along a highway near the Santa Anna NWR.

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A road-killed bobcat (Lynx rufus) that has been placed along a highway near the Santa Anna NWR. USFWS biologists are conducting a study to determine how often passers will to pick up and take a dead bobcat, which often is just a few minutes. This may be skewing biologist’s road kill statistics.

Photo: A USFWS wildlife biologist, runs a radio telemtery set for bobcat signals along the wall on the Lower Rio Grande NWR near Santa Maria.

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A USFWS wildlife biologist, runs a radio telemtery set for bobcat signals along the wall on the Lower Rio Grande NWR near Santa Maria. The wall bisects many of the tiny habitat tracts that remain along the border.

Photo: Texas vervain flowers at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Texas vervain flowers at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers among butterfly milkweed at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers among butterfly milkweed at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: An intricate spider web at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Land, Texas.

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An intricate spider web at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Land, Texas.

Photo: A snake at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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A snake at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: An intricate spider web at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Land, Texas.

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An intricate spider web at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Land, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers at dawn at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers at dawn at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater's Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

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Yellow coreopsis flowers at the Attwater’s Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge near Eagle Lake, Texas.

Photo: A steer head skeleton on the prairie at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge near Valentine, Nebraska.

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A steer head skeleton on the prairie at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge near Valentine, Nebraska.

Photo: The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, along the upper Missouri River near Malta, Montana.

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The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, along the upper Missouri River near Malta, Montana.

Photo: The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, along the upper Missouri River near Malta, Montana.

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The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, along the upper Missouri River near Malta, Montana.

Photo: The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, along the upper Missouri River near Malta, Montana.

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The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, along the upper Missouri River near Malta, Montana.

Photo: A man holds up a bird caught in a wire fence at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

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A man holds up a bird caught in a wire fence at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo: Bison graze at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska.

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Bison graze at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska.

Photo: Hydroelectric dams like the Bonneville on the Columbia River cause problems for salmon.

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Hydroelectric dams like the Bonneville on the Columbia River cause problems for salmon.

Photo: Bison graze at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska.

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Bison graze at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska.

Photo: A biologist searches a vernal pool at Kesterson NWR for the endangered tadpole shrimp.

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A biologist searches a vernal pool at Kesterson NWR for the endangered tadpole shrimp.

Photo: Grazing cattle at the Charles M. Russell NWR in Montana.

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Grazing cattle at the Charles M. Russell NWR in Montana.

Photo: Edison St. John's Wort (Hypericum edisonianum) at Archbold Biological Research Station in central Florida.

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Edison St. John’s Wort (Hypericum edisonianum) at Archbold Biological Research Station in central Florida.

Photo: Rare cutthroat (Panicum abscissum) grass at Archbold Biological Station near Tampa, Florida.

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Rare cutthroat (Panicum abscissum) grass at Archbold Biological Station near Tampa, Florida.

Photo: A woman stares at a rare cactus plant at Archbold Biological Station at Lake Placid in Tampa, Florida.

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A woman stares at a rare cactus plant at Archbold Biological Station at Lake Placid in Tampa, Florida.

Photo: An aerial of a Musk Ox stranded on Nunivak Island, part of the Yukon Delta NWR, Alaska.

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An aerial of a Musk Ox stranded on Nunivak Island, part of the Yukon Delta NWR, Alaska.

Photo: A footprint of a Florida panther under a wildlife crossing underpass on Alligator Alley (I-75) near Naples, Florida.

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A footprint of a Florida panther under a wildlife crossing underpass on Alligator Alley (I-75) near Naples, Florida.

Photo: Ranching on the upper Missouri River near the Charles M. Russell NWR in Montana.

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Ranching on the upper Missouri River near the Charles M. Russell NWR in Montana.

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