Images

A double-crested cormorant rests nearby the ponded Taylor Slough waters at
Everglades National Park.

USGS scientist stands below quarry cutters setting atop large blocks of cut coral, at Windley Quarry.

A little blue heron foraging in the waters of Eco Pond, at Everglades National Park.

Looking down from the Mahogany Hammock boardwalk at Everglades National Park, periphyton is abundant in the watery seagrass.

A butterfly pea vine flowering in the sandy soils of Long Pine Key at Everglades
National Park.

Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park contains a pine forest community
indicative of the original pine forests of Florida.

A female anhinga roosts in the trees at Everglades National Park.

A purple gallinule stands atop the spatterdock at Everglades National Park.

An alligator hides partially submerged in the grassy waters-edge of Taylor
Slough at Everglades National Park.

Flowering lantana shrub in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Orchid blooming by a swamp pond in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Blooming bromeliad along a trail in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Looking across the waters of Eco Pond at Everglades National Park, with cattails in the foreground and a tree island to the right.

The sky filled with a profusion of colors as the sun slowly set behind this mangrove island in Florida Bay, at the south end of Everglades National Park.

Flowering dahoon holly in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Washed out bridge on the Rio Grande de Arecibo, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Georges, 1998

View looking up-stream toward Carraizo Dam in Loiza, Puerto Rico, under drought conditions.

Logs that fall through the overlying bedrock litter the cavern floor.

Roots break through the overlying bedrock of the cavern.

Ledges Sink.

Flow conditions near Ledges Sink.