Images

Cloudscape in a BLM wilderness study area. Photo courtesy of BLM.

Debris flow in tributary to Rito de los Frijoles near Upper Crossing, Bandelier National Monument, NM, on April 30, 2015. Photo by Craig Allen.

This is a photo of a black and white tegu lizard. This species has invaded the Everglade and other parts of the Southeastern US.

Field station member hikes in southern Bandelier National Monument, overlooking Cochiti Reservoir

Invasive Species biological science technician Michelle Collier holds an invasive black and white Tegu lizard. 

This is an image of a wind turbine in a corn field taken in Wyoming in the summer of 2014.

Research Wildlife Biologist, Ernie Valdez, is holding that is being swabbed for bacteria.  Early findings of this research have shown that natural occurring bacteria on bats produce secondary metabolites that that may serve as natural defenses against the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans; the cause of white-nose syndrome that kills hibernating bats.

Bison herd grazing on a hill in Montana. Ryan Hagerty photo. FWS.

An agricultural barn with farming equipment stored outside in Colorado.

A female Grasshopper Sparrow sitting on her nest. Photo by Janet Ruth.

Grasshopper Sparrows chicks in their nest. Photo by Janet Ruth.

Cheatgrass turning red in the fall in the Squirrel Creek burn area, Medicine Bow National Forest. Photo by Amanda West, USGS.

Boy in a meadow of wildflowers near Fulford, CO. Summer of 2014. 

Mexican free-tailed bats that emerged from Bracken Cave in Texas fly among the trees in the early evening sky. 

 A bumble bee in an alfalfa field.

Spring green quaking aspen in Oat Canyon, New Mexico.

Wheat field wind turbines in Wyoming.

Research Wildlife Biologist, Ernie Valdez, holds a long-eared bat (Myotis evotis) that will be swabbed for bacteria that may serve as natural defenses against white-nose syndrome.

A field of wind turbines in Wyoming with a storm rolling in.

Sunset over Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman.

USGS volunteer, Halle Poppaw, observes/counts members of a large bison group on TNC’s Medano Ranch. USGS photo by Kate Schoenecker.