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Cattle grazing north of Lake Okeechobee, where cattle ranching and farming is
extensive.

Green stagnant waters fill this drainage ditch that lies in front of an orange
grove located in the vicinity of Lake Okeechobee.

Wider view of Canal 59 in the foreground and Control Structure S-191, which
controls water flow into Lake Okeechobee.

After the canal-side gates at the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock closed,
lakeside gates opened and rushing Lake Okeechobee waters were admitted
into the enclosed area.

The lakeside gates of the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock in their closed position.
Lake Okeechobee lies beyond the gates.

With the Lake Okeechobee lakeside gates open, boaters get ready to exit the
Port Mayaca Navigational Lock.

Boaters leave the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock and head out into the open
waters of Lake Okeechobee.

On the Lake side of Control Structure S-191, a double-crested cormorant
balances atop a buoy floating in Lake Okeechobee.

Seen beyond the dirt road are smooth, green grasses of a turf farm located in
the vicinity of Lake Okeechobee.

To gain access to Lake Okeechobee, boaters anchor themselves to the Port
Mayaca Navigational Lock wall as the canal-side gates close.

Looking through the open lakeside gates of the Port Mayaca Navigational Lock,
onto Lake Okeechobee.

Ryan’s thesis research focuses on the importance of appropriate spawning substrate as a key driver of paddlefish restoration success in reservoirs of Oklahoma. Paddlefish, an important sportfish, have been stocked in reservoirs throughout the State, but these stocking efforts have had variable success.

An alligator sunning itself along the banks of a canal, in Big Cypress National
Preserve.

Red-faced warblers are one of the species affected by climate change in the form of reduced snowpack in the Arizona Mountains, according to a USGS Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit study.

Several red mangrove "islands" in an intracoastal waterway. Photograph taken circa 1998.

Cecioides consobrinus shell viewed with a scanning electron microscope with aperture facing up.

Juvenile white sturgeons on measuring board.

A classic marine tide pool environment among some of the black lava rocks found on the southern shore of Maui in the Hawaiian islands.

Rainstorm over Kauai mountains and Hanalei Bay at the North Shore of Kauai.

A classic marine tide pool environment among some of the black lava rocks found on the southern shore of Maui in the Hawaiian islands.

Endangered Hawai'i forest bird, 'Akiapōlā‘au (Hemignathus munroi).