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  • A Native Alaskan family crosses a stream while hiking with their dog through the woods. They are headed back to their fish camp on Lisianski Peninsula on the west coast of Baranof Island.
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  • Young girls hike through an uplift meadow with a mosaic of flowering plants on Moser Island which separates North and South Arms Hoonah Sound off of Chichagof Island.
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  • Tourists don blue jackets and hike in the rain to Mendenhall Glacier through the Tongass National Forest. The region earns its reputation for receiving up to 200 inches of rain a year creating a lush, green and moss-covered environment.
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  • Conservationists hike through a 600-year old uncut old growth forest of tall trees. It can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor.<br />
Tongass National Forest in Alaska's Southeast  is the world's largest remaining intact coastal temperate rain forest. Nearly 17 million acres provides habitat for the largest population of Bald Eagles in the world.
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  • Families hike through the wilderness following the few rough trails on Moser Island in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Hiking and exploring the wilderness in Tongass National Forest, conservationists playfully teach their daughters to whistle using blades of grass.
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  • A conservation group hikes through wilderness and old growth crossing creeks and rough terrain in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large dune in the Atacama Desert a region in north Chile that is considered the driest place on earth. Located between the Andes and Coastal mountains, the parched desert is formed by wind and erosion.
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  • A hiker explores an ice cave recently revealed at Mendenhall Glacier. As the glaciers in southeast Alaska melt, ice is exposed thousands of years after being buried. Some tunnels in the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield are connected to ice caves, which formed as the glacier moved across uneven surfaces.<br />
During the Pleistoncene Great Ice Age several climate fluctuations created glacial advance and retreat, and vast sheets of ice covered nearly a third of the Earth’s land mass and one half of Alaska. As the climate warmed during the Holocene, ice retreated remaining in Alaskan at high elevations. The most recent variation in advance and retreat created the Juneau Icefield formed 3,000 years ago and ending in the 1700’s. Mendenhall Glacier has flowed for 250 years for 13 miles ending in a lake at its’ base.
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  • Equiped with crampons and emergency equipment, a hiker crawls through a blue ice tunnel formed in the Mendenhall Glacier. As the glaciers in southeast Alaska melt, ice is exposed thousands of years after being buried. Some tunnels in the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield are connected to ice caves, which formed as the glacier moved across uneven surfaces.<br />
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During the Pleistoncene Great Ice Age several climate fluctuations created glacial advance and retreat, and vast sheets of ice covered nearly a third of the Earth’s land mass and one half of Alaska. As the climate warmed during the Holocene, ice retreated remaining in Alaskan at high elevations. The most recent variation in advance and retreat created the Juneau Icefield formed 3,000 years ago and ending in the 1700’s. Mendenhall Glacier has flowed for 250 years for 13 miles ending in a lake at its’ base.
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  • A hiker treks over cracking ice fissures of Mendenhall Glacier. Locals are drawn to explore newly exposed ice tunnels as the glacier retreats. The face of the glacier is an active calving zone. Ice near the face of the glacier is also weaker and can be treacherous due to the continuing movement.
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  • Hikers walking along the top ridge of a large sand dune in the Atacama Desert. Known as the driest place on earth, the desert is also considered the oldest. It has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • A lone hiker climb atop weathered desert sand landscape of driest place on earth. The Atacama Desert sometimes goes more than a century without recorded precipitation. The Atacama Desert is also considered the oldest desert on earth. On the whole, it has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • Slovenians walk along a snow-covered path to a hilltop church near Ljubljana.
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  • Goats pack hiker’s supplies through the wind-blown sand flows and across the high plains on the edge of Wyoming’s Red Desert. An outdoor enthusiast started a business with his goats that follow along without being leashed. They wear bells in case they wander away and can be easily found in the open country but they are sure-footed and willing companions that can carry 30-65 pounds. They jump and run along beside hikers having the natural instinct to play follow the leader. The high-desert ecosystem is varied with buttes, sagebrush steppe, mountains and dunes.
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  • Researcher Paul Buchheim prospecting for fossils at the Angelo Ranch adjacent t o the Monument
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  • Foggy forest view with a couple walking between giant redwood trees.
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  • Hikers follow a trail in the last light at dusk and climb to the top of weathered desert landscape for a view of the driest place on earth. The Atacama Desert sometimes goes more than a century with no recorded measurable precipitation. The Atacama Desert is considered the oldest desert on earth. On the whole, it has experienced semi-arid conditions for over 150 million years, and the inner core—the driest spot—has been hyper-arid for over 15 million years.
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  • Children gather firewood in a rock-strewn valley. Yayla culture involves go up and down the mountains looking for forage for your animals.
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  • A woman leads her toddler down a paved trail in the fog, surrounded by what is most likely the "Ghost Forest," an area of devastation where an exotic insect k illed all the trees.
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  • Friends play on a rope swing on an island in the Tongass National Forest where they were camping with their families.
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  • Hiker in misty forest with redwood tree trunks.
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  • Scientists climb on gigantic stumps of trees cut years ago while they hiking through surveying what is left of the old growth forest. Tongass National Forest encompasses 16.8 million acres and is the largest temperate rain forest on the planet. The 600 to 800 year old trees lin these forests forests contribute irreplaceable biological diversity.
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  • Hiking along an overlook above a rocky shoreline on the Lost Coast in the King Range National Conservation Area (NCA).<br />
The King Range NCA encompasses 68,000 acres along 35 miles of California’s north coast. The landscape was too rugged for highway building, giving the remote region the title of California’s Lost Coast. It is the Nation's first NCA, designated in 1970.
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  • A ranger hikes through the woods at Oregon Caves Natioal Monument.
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  • A lone cyclist crosses the maritime chaparral of Fort Ord National Monument, once a bustling Army post on central California's Monterey Peninsula and now a Bureau of Land Management-run reserve for recreation and scarce native habitats. The coastal gem has 86 miles of trails to ride a bike or horse or hike through diverse habitats.
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  • Free-roaming goats wander near an alpine restaurant in Austria where tourists hike trails through the Alps green, mountain landscape for a lunch destination.
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  • Visitors at Arches National Park in Utah hike along sandstone formations as dark shadows fall across smooth red rocks. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches and hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive rock fins, and giant balanced rocks.
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