Images

Rio Grande at Alameda (Albuquerque, NM)

Long Island Estuary - part of the North Atlantic Coastal Plain

Looking south over Yellowstone from Gallatin National Forest

Fall colors can be seen in Upstate New York along the banks of the Tioughnioga River near Whitney Point.

The glorious Douglas fir forest on the west side of the Cascade Mountains, McKenzie Pass, Willamette National Forest. The Douglas fir is the Oregon state tree.

A colony of the soft coral known as the "bent sea rod" stands bleached on a reef off of Islamorada, Florida. Hard and soft corals are presently bleaching- losing their symbiotic algae – all over the coral reefs of the Florida Keys due to unusually warm ocean temperatures this summer.

Colonies of “blade fire coral” that have lost their symbiotic algae, or “bleached,” on a reef off of Islamorada, Florida. Hard and soft corals are presently bleaching- losing their symbiotic algae – all over the coral reefs of the Florida Keys due to unusually warm ocean temperatures this summer.

A crew surveys Upper Whitehorse Creek in SE Oregon and finds a stretch of stream that dries up, or runs underground. 

A scenic view of an Aleutian island with fireweed in full bloom

A managed wildfire in New Mexico demonstrates application of wildland fire
science for forest restoration and risk reduction

A convective smoke plume from a managed wildfire rises above Ponderosa pine trees, New Mexico

Flames consume woody fuels in a managed wildfire, New Mexico

Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis) are the southernmost subspecies of Cutthroat Trout, making it particularly vulnerable to anticipated warming and drying throughout its range.

A panorama from Folly Island. Folly Island, a preserve owned by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, is about 7 acres. It is located in Bartlett Narrows, along the western coast of Mount Desert Island.

Highly diverse and resilient reef within Bird Island Marine Protected Area, Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands.

Carson Baughman conducting lake surveys in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in 2014.

Remnants of South Carolina’s threatened maritime forest on the coast of Cape Romain Nat’l Wildlife Refuge.  Sea-level rise is impacting these forests and the critical habitat they provide, creating ‘boneyard beaches’.  (credit - M. Eaton)

Cape Romain Project team members (left to right) David Salvesen, Gerard McMahon, Fred Johnson and Raye Nilius (Lowcountry Refuges Team Leader) tour freshwater impoundements and areas of coastal erosion at the refuge. (credit - M. Eaton)

Fred Johnson (USGS, WARC) views the remnant damage caused by Hurricane Hugo (1989) on the South Carolina coast, at Cape Romain NWR. (credit - M. Eaton)

Pinyon-juniper and sagebrush on Juniper Mountain, Nevada.                  

Grazed grasses interspersed with low shrubs in coastal dunes at Makahoa Point east of the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge (JCNWR) on Oahu, Hawaii.