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  • Cowboys roll out jute setting up fences for a helicopter round up to remove wild horses from public land.
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  • Herders make fences out of thorn acacias to discourage predators.
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  • A stallion is surrounded by white fences lined with spring flowering crabapple and cherry trees creating an idyllic, picturesque setting for a Thoroughbred horse farm. What makes Kentucky special is that it is geologically favored for horses. Millions of years ago, layers of shells were buried and the crushed limestone makes the grass rich in calcium. As the land sinks, hills and valley are formed which make a perfect terrain for building strong muscles when horses run.
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  • Wild horses pace back and forth in temporary holding facility corrals adjusting to fences after wild horse round up.
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  • Aerial view of Donamire Farm's fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—cheaper to maintain. A Thoroughbred horse farm doing well financially still follows the tradition with white paint.
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  • Aerial view of a single horse grazing in picturesque, curved-fenced pastures. Once all farms were lined with white fences, but many now are black—easier to maintain. Lane's End is one of the most important stallion farms and breeding operations in the U.S. and also one of the top operations globally.
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  • An older Wyoming rancher checks the fence at the Ladder Livestock Ranch while his daughter and granddaughter unlock the gate.
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  • A young woman hitches her 4H project to a fence outside the rodeo at the Slope County Fair in Amidon ND.
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  • Wearing a black hat and white hat, a young cowboy balances on a corral fence waiting for his father to finish working on the ranch in southern Oregon.
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  • A father and son repair a barbed wire fence on their ranch in Steens Mountain near French Glen, Oregon.
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  • William McKinley Crews, 81, wears his morning hat checking his fences after hanging his laundry on the clothes line. The farmhouse in Moccasin Swamp is where he has lived all his life. The house in northern Florida, has no electricity or running water. He keeps company with his four cows and 14 cats.
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  • Yearlings stand in a pasture surrounded by white fences and a historic Thoroughbred horse farm. Located in the heart of the Bluegrass, next to Keeneland Race Track, Manchester Farm holds the distinction as one of the most recognizable farms in Kentucky. What makes Kentucky special is that it is geologically favored for horses. Millions of years ago, layers of shells were buried and the crushed limestone makes the grass rich in calcium. As the land sinks, hills and valley are formed which make a perfect terrain for building strong muscles when horses run.
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  • Morning fog rises over Donamire Farm's fenced pastures and pastoral setting in Lexington, Kentucky
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  • Workers dismantle a protective fence around the Olympic Stadium area.
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  • Spectating cowboys sit on the top bar of the fence of a corral during a rodeo a t the Slope County Fair, which is the longest running consecutive fair in North Dakota--held more than 75 years. Slope County is the smallest county in the co untry to have a county fair--there is only one other town in the county besides Amidon.
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  • With ears pricked forward, a yearling thoroughbred curiously awaits at a white fence on Manchester Farm, a Thoroughbred horse with a barn that is located on the backside of Keeneland Race Track. What makes Kentucky special is that it is geologically favored for horses. Millions of years ago, layers of shells were buried and the crushed limestone makes the grass rich in calcium. As the land sinks, hills and valley are formed which make a perfect terrain for building strong muscles when horses run.
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  • "Joe Launderville runs cows thru the largest superfund cleanup site in the coun try - the cows are going thru the Clark River which winds thru the Grant-Kohrs Ranch.  The river is laden with heavy metals from the old Butte mine. Laundervi lle is a rancher for the NPS.  Joe didn't think the cows would go across the Clark River (the toxic clean up site) when he was moving them - so he had to bring them ba ck to the fenced area even tho the cows drink this water. They try to keep the cows out of the river because they can kick up toxic heavy metals which are bad for the fis h...General views of the Grant-Kohrs Ranch.  Most are of Joe Launderville and t he draft horses he uses on the ranch."
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  • Lightning bolt strikes and a rainbow appears as sun sets during summer storm season. The gate is closed tightly at the end of a long work day.
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  • A boy who sweeps dust looking for gold bits to recover.
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  • Wild horses graze at an abandoned industrial site near a waterhole in Nevada. The scrappy equine are survivors on sparse, dry range as they roam across state, private and public federal land.
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  • Twilight falls on the quiet, Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites where the church stands high on the hillside. The picturesque community in the Alps depends on agriculture and crafts.
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  • An inhabited house is next in line to be vacated and burned down as a coal company moves out families in the way of a growing mine. The homes were company owned.
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  • A woman walks by homes and up the road in a holler that is at the base of a mountain mine site.
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  • A young girl holds a baseball while watching boys play in a ball field in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. In the original plan of the park, Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed with Calvert Vaux, appreciated pastoral scenery and long meadows broken only by clumps of deciduous trees. Those open views have been difficult to preserve in present day times as a demand for active recreational facilities has mounted in urban areas. The ball fields in Prospect Park were moved to the ends of the meadow, pushing the backstops to the edges to conform to Olmsted’s original plan.
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  • A woman floats in her swimming pool on the edge of a wetland.
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  • A boy prepares to play in a baseball game.
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  • Workers in the Palais de Fortune development outside Beijing.
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  • A cattleman and his herd in a muddy pen preparing for coming rains.
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  • A satellite dish for international programs is in a courtyard.
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  • A widow looks forward to the ritual of checking her mailbox daily. Her faithful canine companion Leica waits patiently along the snowy road in the Alps.
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  • Young cowboys practice roping sheep.
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  • A Lions Club volunteer is interviewed at the Del Norte County Fair.
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  • Cowboys loosen up during the rodeo at the Slope County Fair.
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  • Rounded up wild horses pace in holding facility corrals before they are transported where some are adopted.
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  • Mares and foals gallop across the pasture on an Irish farm, Ashford Stud which is part of international horse racing business Coolmore.
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  • Bedsprings once served as a corral near Elida, New Mexico.<br />
The mayor of Elida, Pop 200, blames the dearth of water. On the plains around them are signs of hard times in the 40’s and 50’s like the dairy that used old mattress springs as a containment area for their handful of milk cows. <br />
The signs of the future for this place loom over those mattresses – huge farms of wind machines. Farmers supplement their income now with wind leases and will be more.
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  • Young girls, dressed in traditional Swiss clothes, feed goats.
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  • St. Bernards are a tourist attraction at a foundation for their care.
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  • Axis deer are hunted to eradicate the species.
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  • A transgender sex worker talks with her aunt in a neighborhood where they live in Quito. Talia says her family threw her out because they didn’t accept her, but her aunt took her in.
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  • Bedsprings once served as a corral near Elida, New Mexico.<br />
The mayor of Elida, Pop 200, blames the dearth of water. On the plains around them are signs of hard times in the 40’s and 50’s like the dairy that used old mattress springs as a containment area for their handful of milk cows. <br />
The signs of the future for this place loom over those mattresses – huge farms of wind machines. Farmers supplement their income now with wind leases and will be more dependent on them after the water runs out.
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  • Graves of sailors that went down in wet season squalls.
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  • In Dhaka, Bangladesh, laborers sort through a huge pile of discarded plastic bottles.
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  • Cattle in a pen at a feedlot adjacent to a grain elevator in Ingalls, Nebraska.<br />
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The main purpose of feedlots is to help animals reach a certain weight as efficiently as possible. Through providing a steady, high energy diet and managing the cattle, they attempt to minimize health problems and stress. A criticism of feedlots is that they are overcrowded which creates more challenges for healthy animals.
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  • Wind energy generates new income for farmers who have lost earnings as their wells dry up.<br />
Bedsprings once served as a corral near Elida, New Mexico.<br />
The mayor of Elida, Pop 200, blames the dearth of water. On the plains around them are signs of hard times in the 40’s and 50’s like the dairy that used old mattress springs as a containment area for their handful of milk cows. <br />
The signs of the future for this place loom over those mattresses – huge farms of wind machines. Farmers supplement their income now with wind leases and will be more.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Clothes hang to dry inside Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • Children attend kindergarten in Loyangalani, Kenya.
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  • A village in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya.
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  • People living in Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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  • Children living in Kakuma Refugee Camp near Lake Turkana.
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  • A local indigenous girl inspects the nets while attending a salmon festival.
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  • Grown men tussle with a caged crocodile.
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  • Amish women watch a professional harness racer rush past them during competition at the Geauga County fairgrounds.
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  • In a county that was littered with post offices, there are now only 5 left.  Durward Dixon, Mayor of Elida, Pop 200, blames the dearth of water. When they lay internet cables in Elida and break the water line, the mayor and the judge run out to the edge of town to turn off the water supply and then help fix the broken main. On the plains around them are signs of hard times in the 40's and 50's like the dairy that used old mattress springs as a containment area for their milk cows. The signs of the future for this place loom over those mattresses - huge farms of wind machines.
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  • Bonsai trees in a backyard garden.
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  • A hose snakes through the front yard where a family with a dry well hauls water. They fill five-gallon buckets and jugs in the back of their pickup truck for their personal use.<br />
Agriculture is responsible for 95 percent of aquifer use and families at the fringes of the aquifer feel it. For four years now, approximately 30 families near Clovis have depended on water they haul although a pipeline may relieve the situation with water from the Ute reservoir nearly a hundred miles away.
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  • Fathers of Broome's pearl diving business rest in Pioneer Cemetery.
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  • Evening sunset light illuminates a fence on an Kentucky horse farm in early spring.
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  • Antlers and skull of an axis deer on a barbed wire fence.
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  • Cloistered nuns enter the cathedral for a brief private morning prayer and return through fenced gates to Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito, Ecuador.
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  • Nuns take communion from a priest through  a metal fence that divides the women from the public during morning mass in Quito's cloistered, Convento de Carmen Alto.
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  • A young shepherd holds a lamb in front of his rural home in the desert. He lives with his family in a wet, foggy stretch of northern Chile that surrounds the cloud forests of Fray Jorge National Park. Despite the dampness, cactus thrive there and inventive villagers plant them in rows to form livestock pens. <br />
Small cacti of Quisco Cacto or Echinapsis chilensisof species, are planted in a row and grow together making an effective and inexpensive fence. <br />
Parque Nacional Fray Jorge, a strange landscape of cactus and yet, it is wet and foggy. It is described as an ecological island.
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  • A wild horse is seriously wounded from running into a barbed wire fence. The western landscape is full of old fences that once divided ranches and they are hazards for unsuspecting wildlife.
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  • Are you going to heaven?
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  • Palomino Valley houses wild horses captured on public lands that are processed and prepared for adoption. A Bureau of Land Management facility in Nevada, mustangs trucked there are fed hay, vaccinated, given a freeze-mark brand and placed in corrals where they wait to be adopted or moved to another facility making room for more captured horses. There is little to no shelter from the sun in the barren facility.
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  • Wild horses are in a corral at Palomino Valley, a Bureau of Land Management holding facility.  After wild horses are rounded up, they are trucked and processed here then cared for until adopted or moved to other secured properties paid for by the federal government.
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  • Morning prayers in the chapel bring a group of cloistered nuns together at Convento de Carmen Alto in Quito.
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  • A bonobo with cellular phone at a language research center.
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  • A bonobo at a language research center.
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  • Bonobo ape with cellular phone at a language research center.
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  • Bonobo apes at a language research center.
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  • A boy riding a baby camel.
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  • A boy patting a prized camel.
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  • Hired trainers with their camels at the competition.
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  • A farmer walks along a fence to his barn and house.
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  • A Thoroughbred nuzzles a cat on a fence. Horses and cats are quite compatible. They are both sensitive and social creatures, and they nearly always get along forming strong bonds of friendship.
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  • Barbed wire fencing for the camels auctioned after the judging.
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  • Strong winds blow rain from a storm cloud that violently erupts with loud claps of thunder that sends a band of horses running for safety. The young foal runs behind, following her mother and another mare.<br />
The wild horse herd nervously watched as a storm approached in central South Dakota. When lightning and thunder began, they galloped to a far away fence where they could go no further. The "fight or flight" instinct of behavior is powerful and horses often panic and flee when they sense danger.
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  • Mustangs gallop in a tight pack as hired contractors herd large numbers of horses into a trap chasing them with helicopters. Nearly panicked, they are tricked to follow a tame “Judas” horse let loose in the confusion. The trained horse runs along the jute fence and into a corral expecting food and the wild horses that follow are captured.<br />
The Jackson Mountain Herd consists of mostly brown and dun colored horses. Most were dehydrated and hungry from drought conditions on Bureau of Land Management public lands in Nevada.
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  • Hiding behind a jute fence, a cowboy watches as a helicopter drives wild horses into a trap. A “Judas” horse that is trained to run into a corral dupes the frightened horses into following. A gate slams shut and they are captured in a Bureau of Land Management roundup.
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  • Nurse mares guard over young Thoroughbred foals who are fitted for a halter the first day of their life. They spend weeks in fenced paddocks eating sweet clover, bluegrass and dandelions while learning to socialize before training begins.
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  • "Great Bear Adventure in Coram, MT outside the west entrance of the park is an example of a development the park is not in favor of having. Over the past 5 ye ars tacky tourist attractions have sprung up.  Gil Lusk, Supt., feels it's the greatest threat to the park.  At this attraction people drive through a fenced area wher e black bears roam free.  Dept. of Fish & Wildlife is harassing owners trying t o close this operation."
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