Images

Preserved mature mountain pine beetles are held next to the trunk of a dead pine.

Reddish, dry needles are a sign of dying trees infested with mountain pine beetles. 

Active channel and floodplain of the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River.

Brewer's sparrow (Spizella breweri) chicks in nest, Steens Mountain, SE Oregon.

This photograph is of the seafloor off the Block Island coast and shows a rock crab and several shrimp on a boulder that is covered with bryozoans. Shell fragments and other coarse grained sediment can be seen in the background (upper left corner).

Temporary movable plank houses for the students.

Landslide in the earthquake.

Students having class in temporary movable plank houses.

Total collapse of a reinforced building with masonry infill walls. Rubble has been disturbed by heavy equipment.

Temporary dormitory for students in movable plank houses for the students.

Damage to a village house.

Damage to a village house.

Damage to a local school building. Guozhang Middle School.

Damage to a local school building. Guozhang Middle School.

Damage to a village house.

Timberwork house with "soft connection" has little damage during earthquake.

People next to the ruins.

Damage to a village house. Gaojiabian, Lushan.

Timberwork house with wood embedded in cement wall has little damage during earthquake.

People next to the ruins.

People next to the ruins.