Images

View from sandstone bluff overlooking extinct lava flows at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico.

Elk in the Beartooth Mountains, Wyoming. The USGS and partners study the effects of climate change on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. 

This is a false-color-composite satellite image of Great Salt Lake, Nov 2011. The vegetation appears red.

Measuring streamflow using ADCP, Fish Creek

Extensive, contiguous mortality of piñon pine, ponderosa pine, and Douglas-fir trees, killed in the first afternoon and evening of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Forest drought stress is highly correlated with mortality from poor growth, bark beetle outbreaks, and high-severity fire.

Cattle walking across biological soil crusts in southeastern Utah.

Dry conditions at cattle water sources in western Colorado. 

USGS hydrographer Jerrod Wheeler (in cablecar) measures flood flows right before the gagehouse washes away.

06225500 Wind River near Crowheart, WY: Jul 01 2011; 13,900 ft3/s

Gagehouse at 06225500 Wind River near Crowheart WY right before it washed away.

Jul 01 2011; 13,900 ft3/s

High floodwaters partially submerge a USGS streamgaging station in Slater Fork, CO.

High floodwaters on the Elk River upstream of Routt County Road 42 near Milner, CO.

High floodwaters on the Elk River upstream of Routt County Road 42 near Milner, CO

Floodwaters partially submerge a USGS streamgage station near Slater, CO.

A roadway is broken down due to high streamflow near Slater, CO. A USGS streamgage can be seen next to the road.

Water flowing through the Great Salt Lake breach in 2011, when lake levels were high due to above average snowfall in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains. The Great Salt Lake breach is an area that allows water to travel between the southern and northern parts of the lake.

Collecting a groundwater sample using a mobile laboratory at Jackson Hole Airport

View of Jackson Hole Airport and the Teton Range

Taking a water-level measurement in a monitoring well at Jackson Hole Airport.

Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park.

Brown treesnakes were a major contributor to the loss of nine of 11 native forest birds on Guam.

Roadsides, ranchlands, and mountains.