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  • Boys practice roping sheep.
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  • A cowboy ropes a steer during a rodeo.
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  • Young cowboys practice roping sheep.
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  • A girl stands on a plastic chair roping plastic calf in a parking lot.
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  • Beef Empire Days ranch riding competition in Garden City, Ks., which is at the heart of the American breadbasket where farmers grow corn, wheat and sorghum and raise cattle. Over the last sixty years, two technologies have transformed production from rain fed-oriented agriculture to high-intensity irrigated agriculture, a change that transformed the local economy. Instead of relying on rain, Garden City farmers now use low-cost groundwater pumps and a technique called "center-pivot irrigation" to essentially mine for water locked deep underground. Garden City's current bounty is possible because beneath these farmer's fields is a vast reservoir of water, called the Ogallala Aquifer. This vast stretch of groundwater touches eight states, from South Dakota and Wyoming to New Mexico and Texas and so, because the semi-arid climate of the High Plains doesn't receive enough rainfall to support intensive agriculture, farmers pump this trapped water above ground to irrigate their fields.
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  • A wild stallion attempts to escape but is roped by cowboys during a Bureau of Land Managment roundup. The wily wild horse whinnied to the other trapped horses, then tried to outrun his captures.
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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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  • A trainer uses a rope as she works with a wild mustang on trusting to be touched. She learned gentling methods from her cowboy grandfather and patiently earns their confidence. She was a champion cowgirl going up and competing in rodeos.
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  • A man swings to splash-down on an uninhabited tropical atoll.
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  • Float planes dock to board and carry tourists, then take off over cruise ships to sightsee glaciers, whales and bears. The Misty Fjords National Monument is one of the area’s major attractions.
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  • School children playing in Kireka.
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  • A logger climbing a tree trunk during a logging show competition.
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  • Artesianal fishermen off the coast of Tanga.
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  • A boat aground on a mudflat.
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  • Fishermen in Komote, an El Molo village in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • A fish plant in Oktyabrsky.
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  • Senegalese fishermen returning from setting nets all night.
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  • Senegalese fishermen returning from setting nets all night.
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  • Fishermen on a factory trawler in the waters off of Senegal.
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  • Cattle branding at a ranch in North Dakota.
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  • Cattle branding at a ranch in North Dakota.
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  • Chilean cowboy pushes his horse toward the railing to trap a steer at a rodeo.<br />
Hausos topped with Andalusian hats or flat-brimmed sombreros compete in teams at a rodeo in the Rodeo InterAsociacional Marga-Marga northwest of Santiago, Chile. The teams that are called colleras run a cow out of a pen and pin it while racing against the clock.
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  • Chilean cowboys or huasos compete in teams at a rodeo. Wearing red ponchos and topped with Andalusian hats or flat-brimmed sombreros, teams compete at the Rodeo InterAsociacional Marga-Marga northwest of Santiago, Chile. The teams,  also called colleras, run a cow out of a pen and pin it while racing against the clock.
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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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  • Men install a cistern in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Men install a cistern in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Fishermen in Komote, an El Molo village in Kenya's Lake Turkana region.
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  • Children play atop a truckload of dried fish in the village of Selicho.
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  • A trainer controls camels preparing for a morning judging.
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  • Handlers control camels during competition.
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  • Cowboys loosen up during the rodeo at the Slope County Fair.
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  • Rain did not stop the celebrations of dancing and singing that followed a historic totem raising ceremony on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
Generations of Tlingit and Haida Native Alaskans retain strong cultural ties with the natural world reflected in their storytelling totem art depicting whales and bears.
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  • Ranchers work together to rope and brand calves in a corral near Indian Creek. Throughout the West in the spring, cowboys and cowgirls don western hats, saddle up their horses and put their roping skills to use to mark their cattle with permanent identification.
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  • BLM contractors rope a young foal that was separated from his band after he was chased by two helicopters in a wild horse roundup.
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  • Archeologist Mark Kenoyer atop a custom-built ladder structure held by four gro ups of men with ropes.  In the morning fog, Kenoyer  prepares to photograph a n ewly excavated wall at the site of Harappa.
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  • A cowgirl prepares to saddle horses at the ranch near Monticello, Utah. Ropes and halters adorn the stalls at the Indian Creek ranch is highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch is an example of preservation.
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  • Cradling his puppy, “Meatball,” a youth hangs out on the dock of the float house. The family built their home off the coast of Prince of Wales Island which is only accessible by float plane or by boat. The houses are characteristic of Southeast Alaska, tied down with ropes and floating on the water in an isolated bay.<br />
Life in remote Alaska offers adventures and an atypical lifestyle rich in experiences.
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  • A family serves dinner to guests in the kitchen of their float house on the water. Their home is made from scavenged wood then tied up with ropes in a quiet bay near Prince of Wales Island. These homes are characteristic of the region and only accessible by boat or float plane.
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