Images

This is a screenshot of the INHABIT web-based decision support tool for invasive species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States

Field station intern takes a tree core with an increment borer. Photo by Masha Kazantsev.

Field station members hike across Sanchez Canyon in the Dome Wilderness. Photo by Melanie Wright.

Field station members hike to a site in the Bandelier National Monument backcountry. Photo by Melanie Wright.

Staff profile picture for Alex Stoneburner taken at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, NV.

What can you do to conserve the birds and the bees, even in the face of climate change? In some cases, small actions, such as maintaining a pollinator garden or avoiding pesticides can be important. Take the rusty patched bumble bee, once one of the most common pollinators in eastern North America.

Climate and neighborhood spatial clusters across the greater sage-grouse range. 

Three firefighters use drip torches to light a surface fire in a ponderosa pine forest, Bandelier National Monument

The Taos Plateau in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico. Photo by Ellis Margolis (USGS).

The Santa Fe watershed, which is a primary water supply for Santa Fe, NM. Photo by Ellis Margolis (USGS).

Repeat photos from the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico in 1994, 2011, and 2021, illustrating ecological transformations in a former Piñon-Juniper woodland in response to warmer drought, insect outbreaks, and severe fire.

Big sagebrush landscape under blue skies in northeast Utah. Photo by Steve Hanser (USGS)

Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge lies at the southern end of Ruby Valley in northeast Nevada. For more information visit the Ruby Lake NWR website.

Timelapse camera imagery of cheatgrass growing over time after the Mullen fire in southern Wyoming. These images provide precise dates of green-up, flowering, and senescence of cheatgrass which can be paired with local climate data to create phenological predictions.

Timelapse camera imagery of cheatgrass growing over time after the Mullen fire in southern Wyoming. These images provide precise dates of green-up, flowering, and senescence of cheatgrass which can be paired with local climate data to create phenological predictions.

Field station member overlooking a bend in the Rio Grande in Bandelier National Monument.

Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi) is a federally listed threatened species. Ninety-seven percent of their range are small headwater streams in the Great Basin of North America.

A USGS scientist holds an invasive brown treesnake.

Burned area following the Mullen fire in 2020 in southern Wyoming. Invasive annual grasses may be becoming more abundant at higher elevations after disturbances like fire, and tools are needed to accurately map potential invasions across topographic gradients. Photo by Janet Prevéy (USGS).

Snag fall after the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, which burned over 150,000 acres in New Mexico.

Fisher Mesa as viewed from the west slopes of the La Sal Mountains, UT. Photo by Andreas Wion (USGS).