Images

Day 3 drone test for photographers

Day 3 mirror reflections of landscape on water

Day 4 Flaming Gorge NRA

Day 5 USGS cableway

Day 2 expedition photographers

Day 2 insect population study

Day 2 landscape with fog at dawn

The yellow raft of SCREE expedition leader, Tom Minckley, floating through calm waters of Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado. The far bank in the midground of the photo are the exposed sediments of the pre-dam floodplain of the Green River. The layers of rock in the background are the exposed layers of the red Uinta Mountain Group quartzite.

A view looking down on the river from the hills above camp. View is upstream and shows a nice river meander with a point bar and scenic hills in the background. This is in Brown's Park.

Members of USGS Team B and paper Powell sharing a moment at the end of their 4-day river journey at the Gates of Lodore

Day 2 Janis LeMaster with USGS pfd

Day 2 Rusty looking towards Firehole public use area

Day 4 osprey and nest

Day 4 soil sampling

Day 5 house wren at lightining tree

View towards town of Green River from scenic overlook

Day 1 panorama with rafts A

Two of the SCREE rafts heading downstream through Swallow Canyon

A group of cliff swallow nests made from mud in the river in Swallow Canyon. Many of the nests have birds in them and can be identified by their yellow beaks sticking out.

View looking upstream from a raft on the Green River at the downstream end of Swinging Bridge Canyon, near Flynn Bottom. The eastern end of the Unita Mountains lie in the background. A pump station supplying water to the flooded wetlands of Brown's Park National Wildlife Refuge can be seen on the right near the edge of water.

View looking at a shallow side channel of the Green River in Brown's Park, Colorado. The picture is taken looking downstream from the left bank of the river. In the foreground and on the opposite bank are stands of sandbar willow (Salix exigua). Further beyond, are stands of Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii).