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  • The Allegheny ant Monongahela Rivers converge at the Golden Triangle.
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  • An aerial view of Australian landscape with hills, rivers, and rain.
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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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  • It's party time on a hot summer day. River tanking in plastic livestock-watering containers is a popular tourist draw along the shallow Calamus River in central Nebraska. With two-thirds of the Ogallala’s water underlying it, the state’s wealth of groundwater feeds countless springs, streams, and rivers.<br />
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There is so much fossil water available in NE that a couple of cowboys figured out how to float the river in cow tanks. Now ranchers use tourism to supplement ranch income in hard times and as many as 350 tourists float the river on one day. The Calamus is spring fed from the Ogallala aquifer.
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  • River “tanking” in plastic livestock-watering containers is a popular tourist draw along the shallow Calamus River in central Nebraska. With two-thirds of the Ogallala’s water underlying it, the state’s wealth of groundwater feeds countless springs, streams, and rivers.<br />
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There is so much fossil water available in NE that a couple of cowboys figured out how to float the river in cow tanks. Now ranchers use tourism to supplement ranch income in hard times. One hot August day, 350 tourists floated the river. The Calamus is spring fed from the Ogallala aquifer.
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  • A fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River south of the town of Oktyabrski where men make a fish camp out of a beached, ocean-going vessel.  They are not fishing on this day because it allows time for the fish to spawn, and indigenous communities up river in Kamchatka can fish in the area along the Bolshaya River. <br />
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Fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of a net and then bring it around full circle in the river to capture the fish. A net is  dumped into small boats that have small nets laid in them. A crane picks up the small nets and dumps them into trucks that take the fish to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk. If fishing was allowed every day in the mouths of these rivers just off the Kamchatka shelf, no salmon would get up river to spawn. There are two “passing days” each week when fishing is banned, so these fishermen hang out in their camp and do their laundry. Some fishermen come from as far as Ulan-Ude, which is on the border with Siberia. One of the fishermen in this photo is from PK, two are from Urilutsk, Siberia, and two are from Oktybrski.
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  • The Ozernaya River is full of spawning pink salmon— the most abundant—coming in from the left side of the frame, and sockeye—the most valuable—just below them.<br />
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The Kamchatka Shelf in Russia is the last safe place for salmon and the only place on Earth with seven species of oncorhynchus (derived from Greek words meaning hook nose). These photographs illustrate a story about fish that were left alone for millions of years but are now threatened.  <br />
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Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose. They stop eating, so it doesn’t matter that their mouths no longer work for food.  The photo in the Ozernaya River, above, shows
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.<br />
The Kamchatka Shelf in Russia is the last safe place for salmon and the only place on Earth with seven species of oncorhynchus (derived from Greek words meaning hook nose). These photographs illustrate a story about fish that were left alone for millions of years but are now threatened.  Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose. They stop eating, so it doesn’t matter that their mouths no longer work for food.  The photo in the Ozernaya River, above, shows pink salmon— the most abundant—coming in from the left side of the frame, and sockeye—the most valuable—just below them.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River. Along the entire Pacific Rim, salmon production is down to 3 or 4 percent of historic production. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose.
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  • The Vyvenka River loops through a floodplain in an oxbow curve in Kamchatka, a peninsula in far east Russia that is the size of California but only 130 kilometers of roads.  All roads are clustered around the capital, Petropavlovsk.  All other travel is by plane, MI-8 helicopter or something they call an ATV but we refer to them as a tank. Flying over the big empty landscape, the view is wetlands, tundra, braided streams, and meandering unconstrained rivers. Free of roads and dams, it is the perfect environment for salmon swimming upstream to spawn.
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  • Colorful spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River. Salmon transform from silver missiles in the ocean to brightly colored creatures as they make their way back up their ancestral rivers, and during spawning adult males develop a hooked nose.
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  • Russian Geological Society expedition member Anatoly Kayukov has constructed a makeshift bridge using a dead tree over the roaring Yagtali River of Siberia's Putorana Plateau, and slowly creeps his way to the other side. Kayukov was part of the Russian Geological Society's expedition that returned to study the remote Russi an region 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle called Putorana Plateau--a  magn ificent, uninhabited tableland the size of Nevada, cut by canyons, rivers, wate rfalls and endless flat-topped mountains receding to the Arctic horizon.
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  • This is the Ust Bolsheretsk area at the height of fishing season along the Bolshaya river.  These fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of the net and then bring it around full circle in the river to cinch in the fish. The net is then dumped into small boats that have nets laid in them that the crane uses to pick them up and dump them into trucks that go to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk.  This brigade is working in this area that is south of Oktyabrski.
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  • Autumnal view of one of the loops in the Buffalo River.
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  • Illegal miners scraping for gold on the riverbanks of the Pra River outside of Prestea, Ghana, Africa.
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  • Aerial of the Buffalo River in the Ozark Mountains.
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  • The Vyvenka River loops through a floodplain in this aerial photo taken between Tilichiki and Khailino on our transport trip by MI-8 helicopter to Khailino.
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  • The remote fishing town of Khailino.<br />
An aerial photograph of Khailino from a MI-8 helicopter between Tilichiki and Khailino, shows the Vyvenka River linking these two communities.  Flying north in Kamchatka, there are miles and miles of untouched tundra, streams, wetland, and rivers like this meandering, unconstrained river that is a perfect environment for salmon spawning.
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  • The Taku River flows out of the Coastal Range in British Columbia to 100 miles northeast of Juneau, Alaska. <br />
A world-class wilderness, the Taku River watershed contains some of the richest wildlife habitat in North America and is teeming with grizzlies, wolves, Stone’s sheep, moose, woodland caribou, migratory birds, and abundant populations of salmon.  The Taku is southeast Alaska’s top salmon-producing river with nearly 2 million wild salmon returning to the river annually.
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  • Researchers who study brown bears navigate by boat through driving rain on the Unuk River in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. This is the "dry season," and the region receives more than two hundred inches of rain each year.<br />
Brown bears or grizzlies are prevalent in the Tongass, so there is interest in study of their behavior and range. A decline in the lower 48 states has heightened management concern and an increased interest in habitat-related studies in Alaska. <br />
Results show brown bears avoid clearcuts and are more often found in riparian old growth, wetland, and alpine/subalpine habitat because of more nutritious foraging and better cover.<br />
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The Unuk Study Area is part of Misty Fiords National Monument and classified as wilderness. Because of this, no helicopters are allowed, making primary access by boat since no roads exist. Located 100 km northeast of Ketchikan, the Unuk River, which means “Dream River” in the native Tlingit language, flows from the Canadian border to salt water. Although much of the main river channel is too deep and glacial for bears to fish, the river contains several clear tributaries with spawning salmon.
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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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  • A boat cuts through reflections of clouds in the placid waters of the St. Mary’s River in Southern Georgia. The St. Mary’s forms a division between Florida and Georgia as it flows east to the Atlantic Ocean out of the Okefenokee Swamp.
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  • An aerial shot along the Essequibo River near Rockstone.  Light clouds form a translucent ceiling above the rain forest and river.  This picture focuses on part of the area a team of researchers is working in to learn about fish populations andnumbers.
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Flocks of Sandhill cranes arrive at dusk to roost in the shallows of the Platte River.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. They do a courtship dance but this behavior can also be an aggressive or territorial show.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • An aerial photo shows the Niobrara River filled with fossil water flowing through farms and a wildlife refuge in Nebraska. Rich hues of green on the hillsides and fields at sunset create a scenic landscape.<br />
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The Niobrara River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 568 miles (914 km) long, running through the U.S. states of Wyoming and Nebraska.
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  • The Niobrara River flows through farms and a wildlife refuge.<br />
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The Ogallala Aquifer comes to the surface in Nebraska.<br />
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The Niobrara River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 568 miles (914 km) long, running through the U.S. states of Wyoming and Nebraska.
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  • A braided river ecosystem for salmon spawning. At the top of this photograph is the Sea of Okhotsk, and below it the Oblukovina River. They flow past wetlands created by heavy rain on the west side of Kamchatka. <br />
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Wetlands are the primary sign of a healthy salmon ecosystem and clouds of mosquitoes form where insects are a main food source. Salmon create a mass migration engine that brings marine-derived nutrients into river ecosystems, and the carcasses fertilize the entire Pacific Rim.<br />
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Salmon bring marine-derived nutrients from the Kamchatka shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk into the eight major river systems that run off the middle range of mountains that divide Kamchatka in half.
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  • Sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. They perform a courtship dance that begins with a low bow, although a male may dance to express aggression or territoriality.
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  • Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes arrive in flocks to roost in the shallows of the Platte River, and during the day they are out foraging in the cornfields and doing their courtship dances.
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  • Pilgrims and local people bathe in the sacred Ganges River.
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  • Kayakers come to the Saint Lawrence River to see whales.
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. <br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. They do a courtship dance that begins with a bow.<br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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  • Sandhill cranes fly in to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. <br />
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Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes—80 percent of all the cranes on the planet—congregate along an 80-mile stretch of the central Platte River in Nebraska, to fatten up on waste grain in the empty cornfields in preparation for the journey to their Arctic and subarctic nesting grounds. <br />
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Sandhill cranes among the world’s oldest living birds and one of the planet’s most successful life-forms, having outlasted millions of species (99 percent of species that ever existed are now extinct).
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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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  • .A dog watches over as Russian fishermen pull in the nets from a fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River. Strict work hours at the mouth of the river allow some of the salmon can pass through to Kanchatka’s indigenous camps further upstream. <br />
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The fish have gone into a dormant state because they have been in the net so long. This was the first great push of salmon—the storm had just passed, the tide was out and the water had cleared enough that all salmon make a mad dash upriver.
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  • Aerial view showing billowing water vapor from timber processing obscures a paper mill on the North River off the extreme southeastern boundry river, the St. Mary's, in Georgia.<br />
In 2020 there are around 100 pulp mills operating in the United States, and each year they emit roughly 23 million pounds of hazardous air pollutants, including benzene, mercury, and the potent carcinogen dioxin.
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  • Every year 400,000 to 600,000 sandhill cranes arrive in flocks to roost in the shallows of the Platte River, and during the day they are out foraging in the cornfields and doing their dances.
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  • People bathing in the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi.
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  • A fountain on the newly designed Riverwalk along the Detroit River.
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  • The Wrigley building on the north bank of the Chicago River.
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  • A pedestrian  heads for the Riverwalk along the Chicago River.
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  • Colorful buildings line the banks of the Inn River with its source located in the Engadine region of the Swiss Alps. Flowing through Innsbruck, seen here, it eventually enters the Danube  River.
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  • Colored chips of plastic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River. Families wash shredded plastic for profit organizing it by color for recycling in Bangladesh’s informal plastic waste industry. Their hand labor is more accurate than highly industrialized recycling in the USA and the labor costs $2-$4 a day.  Blue bottle caps are sorted from red bottle caps and they are sorted from the green bottle caps. A huge overburden of plastic is thrown away landing in the river and washing out into the Bay of Bengal.
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  • Sandhill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River as two cranes do their elaborate mating dance.<br />
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These striking birds stand up to 47 inches tall and boast a wingspan that stretches up to 7 feet long. In addition to their distinctive height, the sandhill crane sports a recognizable red crown that contrasts with their rust or grey plumage—making them an unmistakable species.
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  • The Kamchatka shelf is the only place where all seven species of Oncorhynchus Salmon can be found. Spawning salmon dominate traffic in the Ozernaya River. <br />
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The salmon migration is one of the last great migrations that shapes the food supply and activities of many species, including humans. Salmon bring marine-derived nutrients from the Kamchatka shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk into the eight major river systems that run off the middle range of mountains that divide Kamchatka in half.
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  • Workers pull a net with salmon at a fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River.
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  • Colored chips of plastic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Most of the recycling is done on public river banks and landings or under bridges. The plastic that is saved for recycling in this process is better than anything that can be automated in the USA. But the overburden - the unwanted plastic trash - that comes to this riverbank, invariably ends up in the Buringanga River watershed and eventually in the ocean.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Pollution in the Buriganga River.
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  • Spawning salmon runs fill the Ozernaya River, considered the crown jewel of Kamchatka  and runs directly into the Bering Sea.
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  • Tributary of the Unuk River in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • People enjoying a riverboat cruise on the Ohio River.
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  • The Chicago river and buildings from the London Guarantee Building.
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  • Water rushing over a small fall on the Sol Duc River.
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  • A fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River.<br />
Russian boats are so loaded with fish that they barely clear the surface of the water. These fishermen are fighting against time while the tide is out. When the ocean tide is high and coming in to the Bolshaya, it pushes their nets closed.
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  • Biologist searching for fish specimens in the Potaro River.
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  • Estero de Binondo stream in the Chinatown area of Manila is covered with itinerant homes. You can no longer see the stream in most areas because it is choked with plastic waste. The stream is actually on the left side of this photos.  These residents will be moved to Bulcan, a settlement in the north. Even though the Pasig was cleaned up with major effort, plastic still flows from these areas into that river which makes Philippines one of the top three countries that pollute the oceans with plastics.
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A dog, boats, and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A dog and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A Kara tribe elder peers out over the Omo River at his goats feeding on the sorghum stalks after a harvest.
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  • Flood waters rise to meet a bridge on the Victoria River.
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  • Suckermouth armored catfish lying on river bottom near a fisherman.
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  • Man seated in the Potaro River, hunting with bow and arrow.
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  • Biologists searching for fish specimens in the Potaro River.
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  • A hunter near Mohenjo Caro, Pakistan, uses an egret headdress as a decoy to stalk birds on the Indus River.
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  • These anglers at Yellowstone's Firehole River can not keep thier catch. Heavy f ishing pressure has forced the park to impose a catch-and-release policy.
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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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  • Mendenhall River surrounded by McGinnis Mountain and other peaks.
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  • Buildings reflected in the Ljubljana River.
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  • A boat on the Detroit River against the skyline of Windsor, Canada.
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  • Petroglyph Beach is a State Historic Site with a collection of petroglyphs carved by Tlingit Native Alaskans. At low tide, the site reveals a series of 40 different rock sketches overlooking the Stikine River and Zimovia Straits.
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  • Aerial view of the Hackensack River.
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  • The Merced River tumbles over its rocky bed well-known for its swift and steep course through the southern part of Yosemite National Park, where it is the primary watercourse flowing through Yosemite Valley.
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  • Aerials in Arkansas of the Buffalo River.
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  • After sheets of clear plastic trash have been washed in the Buriganga River, they are spread out to dry to be sold to a recycler.
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  • Laborers offload bricks on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Laborers offload bricks on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Sheets of clear plastic trash are washed in the Buriganga River.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Plastics recyclers on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Trash fills the Buriganga River.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Boats and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Plastic burning on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Colored chips of plas¬≠tic, collected, washed and sorted by hand, dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Pieces of plastic are collected, washed and sorted by hand to dry on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • A dog, boats, and trash on the banks of the Buriganga River.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • Piles of trash pollute the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • A beach covered with trash from the Pasig River in the Philippines.
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  • A crocodile in the Omo River.
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  • Nyangatom tribe village of Kangaten on both sides of the Omo River.
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  • Lake Turkana and the Omo River Delta.
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