Images

Four endangered Nene geese, photographed atop the sea cliffs on Kauai's north shore.

The mountains that encompass Hawaii's Limahuli Garden and Preserve.

Just after sunrise on a beach in eastern Maui.

Just after sunrise on a beach in eastern Maui.

Just after sunrise on a beach in eastern Maui.

This hiking trail, Pandanus trees, an understory of Beach naupaka, and crashing waves characterize the windy cliff-tops along this jagged coast of solidified lava in Hawaii.

Lava islands, vegetated seaside cliffs, a black sand beach, and waves breaking against the steep ragged shoreline of a Hawaiian bay.

USGS Oklahoma Water Science Center Hydrologist Shana Mashburn and Tribal Environmental Technician seine for fish and insects during Tribal training class near Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.

This is sagebrush burning at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in association with a management project located 65 miles northeast of Lakeview, OR.

Wildfire is one of the largest sources of re-released mercury to the atmosphere and a component to the widespread movement of inorganic mercury to aquatic sediments.

Controlled burn at Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon.

The marshes of Plum Island Estuary are among those predicted by scientists to submerge during the next century under conservative projections of sea-level rise.

Side-view of a desert Cottontail sitting on the ground with tick in ear.

Gaged stream reach East Brook east of Walton, NY

This is nearly the same view depicted in the 1872 sketch by Thomas Moran, and printed for the 150th anniversary commemoration of DOI. 

Photo of Dinkey Creek in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, showing a small waterfall cascading down a bedrock slope.

Sagebrush-grasslands

Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

View of wetlands at ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge.

A view of the Red Rocks at Walatowa on a clear day at 12:18pm.

A monarch butterfly drinks nectar from a plumeless thistle flower in an abandoned agricultural field.