Images

View of Mu Ko Thong (Marine) National Park.

View of Mu Ko Thong (Marine) National Park.

Sloping landform with a cavity that opens out to the shore. Other landforms can be seen behind, covered in vegetation.

Trees cast in shadow lie in the foreground as mountains rise in the back. The Snake River flows at the bottom of step-like slopes.

View of coniferous forests covering the mountainside.

Vegetation along bank of Snake River with view of treeline and hovering clouds.

Trees cast in shadow lie in the foreground as mountains rise in the back. The Snake River flows at the bottom of step-like slopes.

View of Snake River with mountains in background and clouds overhead.

Sloping landform with a cavity that opens out to the shore. Vegetation thickly covers a sloping face. Other landforms can be seen behind, also covered in vegetation.

Islands with angular landforms.

This photograph highlights the grandeur of the mountains and plains. The group of trees in the left foreground is part of a larger forest.

Many aspen groves in Yellowstone National Park are failing to regenerate.

This cuckoo bee, or Nomada vegana, is a native bee species associated with open grassland habitats in northwest Indiana. It is a parasitic bee that lays its eggs in nests of other bees.

Balanced Rock, a famous attraction in Arches National Park. Photograph taken after noon.

A Sundew plant taken at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana

USGS' Steve Hanser holding a Brewer's sparrow (Spizella breweri).

Small waterfall in the Gunnison River Canyon.

Waterfall in a mountain river.

Prairie Smoke, Geum triflorum, located in a prairie region in North Dakota, USA

Hilltop view of the Ravenswood ponds (right side of levee) in South San Francisco Bay. These former salt-production ponds were subsequently slated for a major wetland restoration project. 

Two Cynomys leucurus peering from the neck of a burrow.