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Kevin Coronado (Bureau of Indian Affairs intern, left) and Sarah Costanzo (USGS, right) monitor soil moisture in the seed coat greenhouse experiment.

Sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus) seeds coated with a hydrophobic seed coat designed to delay germination being planted in the Northern Arizona University research greenhouse. Photo by Sarah Costanzo (USGS).

Monitoring bumble bees and flowering plants in alpine meadows at Glacier National Park, photo by Lindsay Dose (USGS contractor)

Implementing the Seed Strategy creates jobs and provides career-building opportunities for students and early career professionals.

The USGS Fire, Invasives, Restoration, and Ecology in Sagebrush Steppe (FIREss Team) plants a common garden of rubber rabbitbrush (Ericameria nauseosa) near Boise, Idaho in collaboration with USFS.

Kat Cooney stands in front of an outreach table on the Flagstaff USGS campus during the USGS Open House, Nov. 2023.

Greg Vaughn at USGS Astrogeology talks to visitors at the 2023 USGS Open House. Grover is pictured to Greg's right. Photo courtesy of Lori Pigue, USGS Astrogeology.

Visitors attend the USGS Open House and look through outreach materials in the Astrogeology Science Center, 2023. Photo courtesy of Lori Pigue, USGS Astrogeology.

Janet Richie, Greg Vaughn and a visitor at the Astrogeology Science Center during the USGS Open House in 2023. Photo courtesy of Lori Pigue, USGS Astrogeology.

Lori Pigue of USGS Astrogeology discusses planetary geology during the USGS Open House in 2023

Ryan Crow of the Geology, Minerals, Energy, Geophysics (GMEG) Science Center discusses geology and displays rock samples during the USGS Flagstaff Open House, 2023. Photo courtesy of Meredith Hartwell, USGS, SBSC.

RAMPS and the Institute for Applied Ecology (IAE) get together to discuss potential seeding network across New Mexico at the Society for Ecological Restoration – Southwest Chapter 2023 Annual Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

An example of repeat photography in action - A researcher, Jim Malusa of the University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment, holds a clipboard with a historic photograph captured right at the spot where the image was originally taken in the 1900s, with the same mountain landscape in view.

RAMPS Coordinator Laura Shriver (left) and RAMPS Biologist Sarah Costanzo (right) pose with a poster describing the RAMPS project RestoreNet at the Society for Ecological Restoration – Southwest Chapter 2023 Annual Conference in Sant

USGS staff and technicians from the Southwest Biological Science Center conduct fieldwork near Moab, Utah. Sasha Reed is in the center of the photo. Photo courtesy of Sasha Reed, SBSC.

USGS Biologist Sarah Costanzo monitors a RestoreNet plot within a sea of invasive cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and tall tumblemustard (Sisymbrium altissimum) in western Colorado.

Scanning medium format film negative as part of the archival process in the Southwest Repeat Photography Collection. This is a screenshot from an AZ PBS film about the Collection.

Rebecca Finger-Higgens is a USGS scientist at the Southwest Biological Science Center. Here she is conducting fieldwork in the southwest US, Utah.

Riparian plant community monitoring on the Colorado River, Grand Canyon. Photo by Emily Palmquist, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center.

Photograph of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Photo taken on September 8, 2023.

USGS and others at the Gemini Solar Project in Nevada. Gemini developed measures to avoid, minimize and mitigate impacts to the environment during construction and operation. USGS collaborates with the Bureau of Land Management on research at this array. Photo by Jeff Lovich, USGS.