Images

This tree farm in the mountains of western North Carolina generates income for its owners each year during North America's December holiday seasons.

This tree farm in the mountains of western North Carolina generates income for its owners each year during North America's December holiday seasons.

This tree farm in the mountains of western North Carolina generates income for its owners each year during North America's December holiday seasons.

Members of the Nisqually tribe and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service setting a beach seine in the Nisqually Reach of Puget Sound.

This tree farm in the mountains of western North Carolina generates income forits owners each year during North America's December holiday seasons.

Members of the Nisqually tribe and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service setting a beach seine in the Nisqually Reach of Puget Sound.

Field of grasses tentatively identified as sorghum.

Moss-hung live oaks along the Suwannee River at White Springs.

View of Suwannee River at White Springs looking upstream.  USGS has maintained a gage here since 1906, the longest period of record stream gage in the state. 

Numbers of Wood Storks are declining

This event occurred on October 4, 2007 in La Jolla, California. A landslide, perhaps first indicated in July by cracks appearing in pavement and homes along Soledad Mountain Road, struck suddenly when a massive slab of hillside broke loose, sending tons of dirt cascading toward streets below.

A kelp greenling fish swimming above a seafloor of mixed gravel, cobble and rock outcrop with scattered shell. Fish is approx. 20 cm (8 inches) long. Image acquired 1 km (0.62 miles) offshore Half Moon Bay, California at a depth of 14 meters (46 ft). Also in the image are encrusting sponges, red algae (seaweed), and orange cup corals.

CIR imagery of Dauphin Island collected in 2007.

This photograph is of the seafloor off the California coast and shows jellyfish in a water column. This photograph supports the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP), which was initiated in 2007 by the California Ocean Protection Council.

Three sea stars on a rock, surrounded by a sandy seafloor littered with broken shells. Each sea star is approx. 10 - 15 cm (4-6 inches) across. Image acquired 4.5 km (3 miles) offshore Pigeon Point, southern San Mateo County, California at a depth of 52 meters.

Photograph showing the seafloor off the California coast. This photograph supports the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP), which was initiated in 2007 by the California Ocean Protection Council.

This photograph is of the seafloor off the California coast and shows rock outcrop, encrusting sponge, cup corals, red sea star and a female kelp greenling. This photograph supports the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP), which was initiated in 2007 by the California Ocean Protection Council.

Boulders and biota off San Gregorio, California, in water approximately 30 meters (100 feet) deep. Organisms include bat stars, small sea anemones, strawberry anemone, cup corals, and frilly sea cucumbers.

Two bull elk fighting in a lake.

Two bull elk fighting in a lake.

Jim Crowley (USGS) and Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona) studying acid lakes as mars analogs.