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  • The Sand Hills of Nebraska made of sediment eroded from the Rocky Mountains.
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  • Neighborhoods on the hills surrounding the city of Quito.
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  • At the Mission Hills Golf Club, the largest in the world.
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  • Neighborhoods on the hills surrounding the city of Quito.
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  • An aerial view of Australian landscape with hills, rivers, and rain.
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  • Goats graze on a hill in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • A trainer rides down a steep embankment trusting his sure-footed mustang. Many adopters of wild horses say they are calm and confident when riding on a trail.
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  • An illusive band of wild horses crests a ridge under a full moon and a night sky. Horse sleep only a few hours a night ever on guard for their safety from predators.
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  • Ancient Moai statues dot a hillside on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • Ancient Moai statues dot a hillside on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • Cotopaxi volcano looms above the hillside town of Quito.
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  • Hoonah Cannery in Tlinigit village on Chichagof Island.
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  • Houses and boats in harbor of fishing village on Baranof Island.
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  • Boat leaves harbor on Baranof Island in Sitka.
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  • A Ladino woman walks to a steep hayfield on her farm.
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  • A cross country ski marathon.
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  • A farmer walks along a fence to his barn and house.
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  • A farming family travels by horse and sled.
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  • A skier makes a run downhill on artificial snow at Siestriere.
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  • Artificial snow covers ski runs at Siestriere.
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  • A couple with a dog walk near a hilltop chuch.
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  • A church on a hillside.
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  • Foals hover in a corner of the pen, separated from mares and stallions following the round up by the Bureau of Land Management. Mothers nearby call out trying to find their young ones that are frightened and huddle together for safety.
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  • Fog shrouds steep cliffs on the forested hillsides of Mount Juneau in the Tongass National Forest. Sitka Spruce and Hemlock thrive in the wet environment that receives over 200 inches of rain a year.
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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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  • A farmer herds his cows off the steep hillside back to return to the barn for a morning milking. Some alpine farms attract young people who desire a simple and rustic lifestyle.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • Slovenians walk along a snow-covered path to a hilltop church near Ljubljana.
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  • Skiers race down the slopes of Sestriere, site of Olympic skiing events near Turin in 2006. Snow flies up as they cut back and forth gliding down the snowy downhill path. The resort was first built in the 1930s by the Agnelli family founders of FIAT, and today is one of the largest ski resorts in Italy.
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  • Dawn over the Buttes of the Cross and their shadows on rock cliffs.
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  • Twilight view of snow-capped Olympic mountains and foothills below.
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  • A duck swimming on placid waters at twilight.
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  • Hobet 21 mountain top removal coal mine grows larger and approaches a family home. Mines run 24 hours a day, seven days a week creating coal dust impossible to keep out of houses.
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  • Hydroseed grass is sprayed on steep contours of a reclaimed mountaintop removal mine site in an effort to control erosion. Reclamation requires mining companies to return the land to it's original contours and plant but little grows on these rocky soils and the operation is often repeated.  Spray-on grass replaces more than 60 tree species that ruled some of the world’s most diverse temperate forests.
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  • A 2.8 billion gallon sludge pond of toxic chemicals & heavy metals sits above a community in West Virginia. Coal slurry contains elevated levels of chlorides, sulfates, arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium. Coal companies dispose of coal cleaning process creating a slurry in massive impoundments which are hundreds of feet deep and have failed or overflowed. Coal slurry impoundments represent a major threat to public health andaquatic organisms due to potential contamination of groundwater and streams.
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  • Clear cut forest in preparation for mountain top removal coal mining. In the background is a reclaimed mine site and rock from an active mine.
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  • After coal is extracted at a mountaintop removal mine site, a land reclamation project begins by spraying hydroseed on steep rocky slopes where little can grow. Mines are legally required to restore the land to its “approximate original contour.”<br />
Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region, and only a fraction of that land has been reclaimed for so-called beneficial economic uses, according to research by environmental groups.
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  • Aerial  view of the Maze District where scenic rock formations of the remote terrain in Canyonlands National Park. 337,598 acres of colorful canyons, mesas, buttes, fins, arches, and spires are in the heart of southeast Utah's high desert. Water and gravity have been the prime architects of this land, sculpting layers of rock into the rugged landscape
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  • Scenic rock formations photographed at Canyonlands National Park.
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  • Scenic rock formations photographed at Orange Cliff Overlook in Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park. Orange Cliffs is applied to much of the eastward-facing cliffs, which are made of the Wingate Sandstone
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  • Scenic rock formations photographed at Canyonlands National Park showing Still Water Canyon and Green River looking southwest. Orange Cliffs in background.
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  • Storm clouds above a horse running along a ridge in the rural midwest.
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  • Dune landscape in the wildlife sanctuary, Resrva Nactional de Paracas, Peru.  Sand dunes line the most important wildlife sanctuary on the Peruvian coast that is known for it's clear blue waters, birds and marine life.
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  • A car rounds a curve along a scenic section of the Pan American highway north of Oaxaca in Mexico.<br />
The Pan-American Highway is a network of road that passes through the America's many diverse climates and ecological types – ranging from dense jungles to arid deserts.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form animal and geometric figures seen from the air.  A hummingbird shape as well as perfect geometric designs like triangles, rectangles and straight lines run for several kilometers across the desert. The desert floor is covered in a layer of iron oxide-coated pebbles of a deep rust color. Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture that created them began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700. The ancient peoples created their designs by removing the top 12 to 15 inches of rock, revealing the lighter-colored sand below.
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  • Across a ridge top, a farmer follows his burros burdened with firewood to a mescal factory in rural Oaxaca. The region is where 80% of the mescal made in Mexico. Workers harvest the Maguey plant and bury it with dirt placing it in an oven with hot rocks for 36-48 hours. The burned plant is milled with a horse pulling a heavy stone. It is fermented 8-10 days and the manager plays classical music to help the process. It is distilled twice to be about 70% alcohol and stored for 3-6 months.
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  • Sand dunes encroach on the Pan American Highway, on Peru's coast blown from a secluded beach by strong coastal winds.  The paved but isolated section of the road hugs the coastline in the Sechura Desert south of Casma, Peru. <br />
The Pan American highway connects a myriad of countries and cultural experiences along the 10,000-mile portion of road that stretches through Latin America.  Bustling sophisticated cities contrast desolate desert and rural countryside in Mexico, Peru and Chile.
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  • Aerials of the Bungle Bungles near Halls Creek.
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  • Plastic statues collected from a recycling plant in San Francisco, California.
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  • Sediment that formed the Ogallala aquifer sloughed off from the Rocky Mountains, creating gravel that is mined for construction materials.<br />
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Rocky Mountain uplift and the natural weathering allowed the material to scuff off the slopes. Then materials transported by huge streams became the channels in the aquifer. The Rocky Mountains are compositionally different fhaving more granite than from those in the south.  Sixteen acres of the gravel are stored near Slaton, Texas.
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  • A farm worker drives his pickup truck into the field to herd cows to the barn for morning milking in the rural, northern Austria's Alpine region.
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  • Aerial view of Tau Island landscape.
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  • Wild horses graze on Newfoundland's rocky coast.
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  • Ancient Moai statues dot a hillside on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • Ancient Moai statues dot a hillside on Rano Raraku crater.
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  • Trees in the temperate rainforest grow on a rocky shore.
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  • A cross country ski marathon.
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  • A cross country ski marathon.
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  • Two brothers bring goats into the barn.
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  • A farmer travels by horse and sled.
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  • A band of wild horses roam the wide open spaces on Bureau of Land Management rangeland near Pilot Butte in western Wyoming.
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  • Men walk near a coal slurry pond where cattle died after drinking water. Heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury and lead contaminate water and is a threat to human health and livestock.
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  • Aerial view of Twisted Gun Golf Club,an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Wharncliffe, West Virginia. The golf course is a reclaimed mountaintop removal site, and was recognized by golfonline.com in 2007 as number 17 on the “Top Fifty under Fifty” ranking of top 50 golf courses where the public can play for under fifty dollars. There are very few uses for the moonscape of rock and rubble but this one seems successful. Twisted Gun in Mingo County near Gilbert, has been called the “jewel of the coal fields.” Mining continues in distance.
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  • Mysterious Nazca lines form geometric shapes in the desert that are best seen from the air. Besides animals forms, there are more than 800 straight lines on the coastal plain, some of which are 30 miles Anthropologists believe the Nazca culture, which began around 100 B.C. and flourished from A.D. 1 to 700.
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  • Aerials of the Bungle Bungles near Halls Creek.
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  • A road in the Ozark Mountains.
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  • Plastic statues collected from a recycling plant in San Francisco, California.
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  • A double rainbow in a gray sky over a hilly Australian landscape.
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  • Crepuscular rays of sunlight shine over a snaking river.
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  • Two boys climb a grass covered hill in the Dolomites.
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  • Bulldozers push rocks into hills attempting to reclaim the land after coal mining at a mountaintop removal mining site. This small mine site dwarfs the equipment so they look like toys.
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  • Horses graze on green hills at Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary.
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  • A spa employee at the Mission Hills Golf Club.
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  • Inside a house at the Mission Hills Golf Club's housing development.
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  • A boy prepares to play in a baseball game.
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  • Fresh clear cuts on Prince of Wales island in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Second growth timber on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Clear cut scrub and bushes begin to cover the hillside.
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  • A man cradles a Normandy cow at Fromagerie Pied-de-Vent.
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  • A wild mustang trudges through snow pawing at drifts foraging for grasses to survive on in the Ochoco Mountains.
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  • A man walks down the road in Tom Biggs Hollow in Letcher County, Kentucky, while his great grandchildren play nearby.<br />
Lucious Thompson, who lives in nearby Tom Biggs Hollow, joined Kentuckians for the Commonwealth when he found his land disrupted from above. “There’s good mining and there’s bad mining,” Mr. Thompson said. “Mountaintop removal takes the coal quick, 24 hours every day, making my streams disappear, with the blasting knocking a person out of bed and the giant ‘dozers beep-beeping all night so you cannot sleep.”<br />
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Mr. Thompson spoke with the authority of a retired underground miner. Underground miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh, deep workplaces that were far out of sight. Now, the hollow dwellers have become witnesses more than miners as a fast-moving, high-volume process uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills.<br />
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“They make monster funnels of our villages,” said Carroll Smith, judge-executive, the top elected official, here in Letcher County, the location of some of the worst flooded hollows adjoining mountaintop removal sites. “They haven’t been a real good neighbor at all.”<br />
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With underground mining, coal miners led quieter, more pastoral lives above harsh workplaces deep in the ground and far out of sight. With mountaintop removal, a fast, high-volume process that uses mammoth machinery to decapitate the coal-rich hills that help define the hollows, the residents have become witnesses more than miners.<br />
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New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/national/11MINE.html
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  • Three vehicles traverse rolling hills across the green tundra in summer months as the "haul road" runs 414 miles north to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. The Dalton highway was built during construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s, mostly gravel highway with a few paved sections. It follows nearby the pipeline through rolling, forested hills, across the Yukon River and Arctic Circle, through the rugged Brooks Range, and over the North Slope to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • A sleepy, wild horse foal rests under his mother in the Virginia Range as they graze above the highlands near Reno.
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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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  • 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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  • A  cinder cone in Diamond Craters, a monogenetic volcanic field southeast of Burns, Oregon. Basaltic lava flows were formed in the past 25,000 years and resemble a flat rocky area with small hills. The craters and vents, cinder cones and spatter cones, lava tubes are near Steen's Mountain Wilderness in the northern Great Basin.”
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  • Bird's-eye view of a vineyard and train tracks running through the bustling city of Balzano in the South Tyrol province of northern Italy. Set in a valley amid steep hills, it is a gateway to the Dolomites mountain range in the Italian Alps.
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  • Thoroughbred mare runs along side her foal in a pasture on a Kentucky horse farm. Kentucky is famous for bluegrass and rolling hills where over 450 farms breed and train race horses.
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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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  • Aerial view of snow covered mountain top removal mining site. After blasting the top of a mountain, trucks remove debris dumping dirt and rock into valleys and streams destroying watersheds. Over 1,000 miles of Appalachian streams have been buried and 300,000 acres of diverse temperate hardwood forests obliterated with valley hills like the white V in the foreground. Pollution from toxic chemicals fill sludge ponds and in flooding, contaminate drinking water. A moonscape of unusable land is left.
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  • A lone truck moves down the Dalton Highway also known as the "haul road" running 414 miles north to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay. Built during construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the 1970s, this mostly gravel highway travels through rolling, forested hills, across the Yukon River and Arctic Circle, through the rugged Brooks Range, and over the North Slope to the Arctic Ocean.
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  • A Ladin farmer drives a horse-drawn sled on steep hills with small patches of melting snow outside the Dolomites. The community of LaVal remains isolated by geography and the people retained their own ethnic language although they also speak German and Italian.
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  • Aerial view of Hobet 21, a large mountaintop removal mine site was among the largest coal surface mines in West Virginia. The Lincoln County mine ran 24 hours a day, seven days a week expanding over hills and valleys, filling in Connelly Branch creek. At its peak in 2002, the mine produced 5 million pounds of coal in one year. After the company was bankrupt in 2015, the site was passed on to a conservation firm who continued mining.<br />
A lone house sits beside Mud River in the shadow of the mine's encroaching path. The town of Mud hasn’t been much of a community in the couple of decades since the post office closed, and in 1998 around 60 residents remained. They had two churches and a ball field. In early 1997, Big John, the mine’s 20-story dragline, moved above Mud and more houses, near this one, were bought and destroyed.
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  • View of the city of Quito from El Panecillo (from Spanish panecillo small piece of bread, diminutive of pan bread) is a 200-meter-high hill of volcanic-origin.<br />
In 1976, the Spanish artist Agustín de la Herrán Matorras was commissioned by the religious order of the Oblates to build a 45-meter-tall stone monument of a madonna which was assembled on a high pedestal on the top of Panecillo. It is made of seven thousand pieces of aluminum.
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  • A rumble of thunder and flashes of lightening illuminated a spectacular scene that “National Geographic calls the annual migration of sandhill cranes one of North America’s greatest wildlife phenomena,” according to the Crane Trust.<br />
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Every spring 80% of Lesser Sand Hill Cranes and some Greater Sand Hill Cranes fly to the Platte River in greater concentrations than anywhere in the world. Fossil beds in parts of NE contain the remains of prehistoric cranes from 10 million years ago. Sand Hill Cranes feel safe from predators in about 2 inches of Ogallala water.  Grassland birds of the great plains migrate from Siberia and Canada to the southern US and Northern Mexico. Their main migratory path is north-south constrained by the Rocky Mountains in the same way as the aquifer was when the mountains were formed.<br />
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Sand Hill Cranes land on Crane Trust property feeding on adjacent farmland's waste corn. Ironically, it is because modern agriculture took away the constrained rivers they need to survive. Annually 560,000 come through on migration in the shape of an hourglass fanning out in the north and the south, but hitting a choke point  in the middle around Kearney NE on the Platte River.<br />
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The Crane Trust counted 413,000 Sandhill Cranes on this evening-more than they’ve ever counted before, so this image is what it must have looked like millions of years ago. Conservation groups tirelessly work to keep 20 miles of the Platte River a perfect habitat for the 560,000 cranes that fly through. <br />
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Sandhill Cranes are millions of years old and evolved during the Pleistocene. One of the biggest migration corridors in the world hinges on a core of volunteers and the money they raise to dredge the rivers back to the place they were millions of years ago. So this photo addresses cranes habitat.
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  • Sand Hill Cranes are the grassland birds of the great plains that migrate from Siberia to northern Mexico. But their main migratory path converges over the high plains Ogallala aquifer. Sand Hill Cranes roost here because the Crane Trust has re-engineered this part of the river back to the Pleistocene. This is one of the few places left where they can all co-mingle. The migration fans out across the north and then hits this area near Kearney Nebraska on the Platte River and then the migration fans out again to the south when they leave.
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  • Morning breaks with warm rays of sun over cool blue light of dawn as Sand Hill Cranes fly in to sit in two inches of precious Ogallala water on the Platte River. <br />
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Grassland birds of the Great Plains migrate from Siberia and Canada to the southern United States and Northern Mexico. Their main migratory path is north-south and then in reverse as they fly in to breed in the High Plains aquifer. The birds path is constrained by the Rocky Mountains much in the same as the ancient aquifer. <br />
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Birds depend on these protected waterways creating an hourglass shape in their migration making a wide path following to the narrow choke point at Kearney on the Platte River. Nearly a half million migrating Sand Hill Cranes fly in to Crane Trust property and adjacent farmland.
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  • As an evening storm lights up the sky, about 413,000 sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.
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  • A mare and foal crest a hill under darkening gray skies of a looming storm in South Dakota.  The silhouetted pair are part of the Gila herd of wild horses with Spanish origin that came to North America with the Conquistadors in the 1600s.
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  • Snowy winter view of King Ludwig II's Schloss Neuschwanstein Castle. The 19th century palace is perched on rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau in Bavaria. It was intended as a private residence but the King lived there for only 172 days. It was opened to the public shortly after his death. <br />
It is the dreamy inspiration for Cinderellas's Castle in Sleeping Beauty.
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