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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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  • "Wawona area of the park.  Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees - tunnel tree is a favorite picture spot..."
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  • Balsa-like Pisonia trees grow unmolested on the islands of Palymra.  The fiber of this tropical tree is soft like balsa wood.  The buttress trunks and tangled branches of these trees allow for Palmyra to transform itself into a spectacul ar forest nursery for tens of thousands of nesting seabirds and their young each spring.
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  • Sunlight highlights aspen trees, Populus tremuloides, as their colors turn golden in the autumn. "Quaking aspen" is Colorado's signature tree in the high altitude of the San Juan mountains near Silverton. Aspens grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling. They spread by root suckers and new starts may pop up 100–130 ft from the parent tree. Each tree may live for 40–150 years, but the root system of the colony can be thousands of years old sending up new trunks as the older trees die off above ground.
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  • Old growth hemlock, spruce trees and a 100- foot waterfall create a wilderness refuge for a lone hiker on central Chichagof Island.
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  • Old growth forest hemlock and spruce trees stand tall beside a 100-foot waterfall on Chichagof Island. It can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor.
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  • Sunlight filters through the autumn leaves of aspen trees. Populus tremuloides, aspens, have heart-shaped leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze which is why they are also called "quaking aspens." Backlit in warm sun, the tree native to North America, thrives in the higher altitude of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado.
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  • Foggy forest view with a couple walking between giant redwood trees.
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  • A gold leafed aspen tree displays autumn colors as forest trees cling to rock cliffs in the San Juan mountains. Fall arrives early in high elevation in San Miguel Countnear Telluride, Colorado.
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  • Subalpine fir trees growing in a starburst pattern.
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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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  • A stand of golden leaves of aspen trees displaying autumn colors in the forests of the San Juan mountains in San Miguel County. Fall arrives early in high elevation near Telluride, Colorado.
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  • Sun illuminates golden leaves of aspen trees displaying autumn colors in the forests of the San Juan mountains in San Miguel County. Fall arrives early in high elevation near Telluride, Colorado.
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  • Golden leaves of aspen trees are backlit with autumn colors contrasting the white bark in the forests of the San Juan mountains. Fall arrives early in high elevation in San Miguel County near Telluride, Colorado.
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  • A stand of aspen trees displays golden leaves of autumn colors in the forests of the snow-capped San Juan mountains. Fall arrives early in high elevation in San Miguel County near Telluride, Colorado.
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  • A stand of aspen trees with golden leaves displays autumn colors in the forests of the snow-capped San Juan mountains. Fall arrives early in high elevation in San Miguel County near Telluride, Colorado.
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  • Forests of dead Melaleuca trees stand in Everglade wetland prairies.
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  • A stand of golden leaves of aspen trees displaying autumn colors in the forests of the San Juan mountains in San Miguel County. Fall arrives early in high elevation near Telluride, Colorado.
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  • Power lines and roads are not friends to trees... this one has been hacked into a cartoonish profile. This is the corner of Schneiter and Southgate in Louisville Kentucky.
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  • Bald cypress trees are reflected in Billy's Lake, also is the beginning of the Suwannee River in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Bald cypresses are long-lived and slow-growing native trees to the south adapting to wet, dry or swampy soil. Their heartwood is resistant to decay.
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  • A young Aborigine girl hunting for mud crabs among mangrove trees.
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  • Trees in the Tongass National Forest, which is a temperate rainforest, grow on a moss-covered rocky shore near Sitka Sound.
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  • A view through silhouetted evergreen trees of the Pacific ocean.
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  • A stand of snow-dusted evergreen trees on a hillside.
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  • A stand of snow-dusted evergreen trees on a hillside.
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  • Sunlight beaming through a forest of evergreen trees.
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  • Fog shrouded evergreen trees on a hillside.
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  • A view through silhouetted evergreen trees at gentle Pacific surf.
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  • Silhouetted trees on a shoreline dotted with rock formations.
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  • Trees alongside Jamaica Pond, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, are silhouetted by the setting sun. A glacial kettle hole, Olmsted preserved much of the existing vegetation and framed the pond in trees and shrubs in the Emerald Necklace. It is a part of a 1,100-acre chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts.
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  • Serene stillness surrounds bald cypress trees as morning sun rises over Billy's Lake in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge,  Georgia. The lake is also the origin of the Suwanee River that flows from from the west entrance of the Okefenokee Swamp into Florida.
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  • Bald cypress trees are reflected in the still water of Billy's Lake with surviving end of summer lily pads for fish to hide under in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge,  Georgia. The lake is also the origin of the Suwanee River the flows from from the west entrance of the swamp into Florida.
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  • Forest of uncut old growth spruce, hemlock and cedar trees.
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  • Woodland view of trees in autumn foliage.
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  • Snowfall on evergreen trees.
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  • Floating islands of bouyant peat carry grasses, sedges, and bald cypress trees in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southern Georgia.<br />
A mysterious aura surrounds the Okefenokee, wilderness of a boggy, unstable land commonly known as “Land of the Trembling Earth.” More accurately translated, “Okefenokee” means “waters shaking” in Hitchiti, an extinct dialect in the Muskogean language family spoken in the Southeast by indigenous people related to Creeks and Seminoles.<br />
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The name refers to the gas that forms as submerged vegetation decomposes and bubbles up from the bottom of the swamp. Plants begin growing and clump together to form spongy little islands.
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  • Tapping sugar maple trees to collect sap.
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  • Moss covered trees in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Forest floor of old growth trees in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Frosty morning snow on a canoe and trees surrounding a small lake near Mendenhall Glacier.
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  • Lush woodland view with mosses, epiphytes, ferns and trees.
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  • Woodland view of trees in autumn foliage.
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  • Moss covered trees in a lush green rain forest setting.
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  • Workers remove invasive melaleuca trees from wetland prairies.
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  • Invasive melaleuca trees are removed from wetland prairies.
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  • Morning sun kisses the icy tops of winter trees in snow blanketed New York’s Central Park. An elevated view shows a walker following a curved path planned by Frederick Law Olmsted to create a greater sense of space and mystery about what was to come around the next bend.<br />
Olmsted partnered with Calvert Vaux to plan “Greensward,” and won a design competition to make the what became a beloved urban park. When the idea was conceived, New York was much smaller and no one could imagine the open space surrounded by a city with tall buildings. Olmsted was a visionary and understood that man needed nature to combat the stresses of city life.  Construction began in 1858  and was completed fifteen years later. Central Park was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and is now managed by Central Park Conservancy, a nonprofit which contributes eighty five percent of the park’s $37.5 budget.
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  • A stone bench in a wooded setting of trees in fall foliage in the Blue Ridge Mountains creates a quiet place for contemplation. Frederick Law Olmsted sited the Biltmore house and created a lagoon, woodlands, gardens that is considered a masterpiece and enjoyed by nearly one million visitors each year.
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  • Boab trees reflected in water at Kakadu National Park.
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  • Trees beneath white clouds.
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  • A Pygmy net hunter captures a blue duiker in a net near a hunting camp deep in the Ituri Forest. A duiker is a small antelope and main source of protein for Pygmies in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mbuti drape nets between trees and flush game toward them.
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  • Hunters scale trees with makeshift smoker baskets in pursuit of honey. One Pygmy spots bees swarming and climbs 60 feet up in the air making a long rope and basket out of vines and leaves. He carries a smoldering log to drive the bees from the hive before collecting the honey.
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  • Trees casting reflections in flood waters with a rainbow overhead.
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  • An artistic view of trees through rain-drenched glass.
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  • A not-too-distant thunderstorm at twilight with silhouetted trees.
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  • A group of American Samoan teens nap under the trees near a beach.
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  • Two tourists standing by trees are silhouetted against a night sky.
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  • Trees in the temperate rainforest grow on a rocky shore.
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  • Ice on branches of trees near Mendenhall Glacier.
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  • Workers remove invasive melaleuca trees from wetland prairies.
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  • A mighty, old beech tree creates a sculptural point in the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusettes. The park-like setting was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and is the second largest link the Emerald Necklace, a series of parks. Founded in 1872, the arboretum today encompasses 265 acres, and has collection areas delineated by family and genus that are tributes to the natural world.<br />
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Smooth gray bark is a highlight of the impressive beech tree although the European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) has a trunk that resembles elephant hide. Some trees in the beech collection were probably planted in the early 1800s. There are 14,900 individual plants with a particular emphasis on North American and east Asian Species. Carvings in the smooth bark can create pathways for insects that can harm the health of the trees.
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  • A mighty, old European beech tree creates a sculptural point in the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusettes. The park-like setting was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and is the second largest link the Emerald Necklace, a series of parks. Founded in 1872, the arboretum today encompasses 265 acres, and has collection areas delineated by family and genus that are tributes to the natural world.<br />
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Smooth gray bark is a highlight of the impressive beech tree although the European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) has a trunk that resembles elephant hide. Some trees in the beech collection were probably planted in the early 1800s. There are 14,900 individual plants with a particular emphasis on North American and east Asian Species. The Arboretum is a Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and a National Historic Landmark.
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  • A stately oak tree stands in the snow-covered grand meadow of Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York.  A symbol of strength and endurance, the oak can live 500 to 600 years and grow up to 100 feet if left undisturbed.<br />
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Frederick Law Olmsted, America’s first and greatest landscape architect, planned the city’s system of six major parks and connecting parkways representing one of his largest bodies of work. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the system comprises seventy five percent of the city’s parkland. 
During the 1901 Pan American Exposition, Buffalo was celebrated not only as the City of Light, but the City of Trees.
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  • Robert Cowart wipes sweat away after felling a pine on White Oak Plantation. Pine forests are common in the southeastern Coastal Plain and Florida. Many forests are managed for timber production as pulp used for paper products can come from a wide variety of tree species including conifers. <br />
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The vast majority of Florida’s over 17 million acres of forested land are comprised of pines or a combination of pines and hardwoods. Pine flatwoods are typically found on poorly drained, sandy soils intermediate in moisture content between wetter bottomlands and drier uplands. Overstory of these woodlands consists mainly of longleaf, slash, and loblolly pines, although pond pine and shortleaf pine do occur. The shrub layer of flatwoods forests often includes blackberry, dwarf huckleberry, fetterbush, gallberry, saw palmetto, and wax myrtle.
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  • Bald cypress tree reflections dance in Billy's Lake which also is the beginning of the Suwannee River in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Bald cypresses are long-lived and slow-growing native trees to the south adapting to wet, dry or swampy soil. Their heartwood is resistant to decay.
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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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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  • Snow dusted a sequoia tree located in the southern portion of Yosemite National Park. The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias is the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite and is home to over 500 mature giant sequoias. The national park idea is rooted in the Mariposa Grove. In 1864 President Lincoln signed legislation protecting the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley for "public use, resort, and recreation." This landmark legislation holds an important place in our country's history and was enacted at a time when the nation was embroiled in the Civil War. For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government set aside scenic natural areas to be protected for the benefit of future generations. Later added to Yosemite National Park in 1906, the Mariposa Grove is a popular feature for visitors.
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  • Snow dusted a sequoia tree located in the southern portion of Yosemite National Park. The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias is the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite and is home to over 500 mature giant sequoias. The national park idea is rooted in the Mariposa Grove. In 1864 President Lincoln signed legislation protecting the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley for "public use, resort, and recreation." This landmark legislation holds an important place in our country's history and was enacted at a time when the nation was embroiled in the Civil War. For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government set aside scenic natural areas to be protected for the benefit of future generations. Later added to Yosemite National Park in 1906, the Mariposa Grove is a popular feature for visitors.
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  • In the last gasp of autumn, a few sparse leaves cling to bare branches of an aspen tree, Populus tremuloides. Aspens have heart-shaped leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze which is why they are also called "quaking aspens." Backlit in warm sun, the tree native  to North America, thrives in the higher altitude of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado.
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  • A timber faller works alone with a chain saw in the forest cutting trees one by one at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It is dangerous work.<br />
 The forests in the Tongass can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor in Alaska's Southeast.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth. The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • Cody, a timber faller, works alone in the woods at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It’s dangerous work, and fallers listen for others’ saws between cuts to make sure a buddy isn't injured. Following his father’s example, Cody wanted to be a timber faller since he was a kid. He got his first chain saw when he was nine and has been working since he turned seventeen.<br />
  He leaves home at 5 a.m. driving an hour to the work site. Carrying a heavy chain saw, he walks with the grace of a ballet dancer on a maze of fallen trees. His shoes, called corks that cost as much as $750, have metal-spiked soles so he is stable on fallen trees.<br />
  Loggers and fishermen rank in the top two spots for most dangerous jobs. Both are common lines of work for people in the Alaskan outdoors. Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking fatal occupational injuries in 1980, there were 4,547 fatal work injuries in 2010, and fatality rates of some occupations remain alarmingly high.
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  • A lone Chilean palm in Oasis de la Campana, an ecological reserve established to save the endangered Chilean palm tree. The oldest Chilean palm in the reserve is 1,200 years, and many of the larger ones photographed are 400-700 years old. There are 2,000 on the reserve and 8000 in the nearby park that are not protected. Once prevalent throughout Chile, the palms were decimated during the 19th century, felled for their sugar-sweet sap. <br />
Years ago Spaniards cut the taller trees to run cattle, plant crops on the land and to burn wood for charcoal. The 1828-meter peak of Cerro La Campana or Bell Mountain is in the background.
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  • Eucalyptus tree at twilight.
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  • Mangrove tree and roots along with stranded boat on a tidal flat.
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  • A palm tree grove at Ahu Nau Nau surrounds a beach on a lush part of Easter Island.
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  • Joshua trees are a type of yucca that can reach that Heavily dependent on annual rains, the native plant is formally known as Yucca brevifolia, which grows at lower elevations is desert terrain near the Virgin River in southwest Utah.
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  • A young evergreen tree doubled over in deep snow.
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  • A silhouetted evergreen tree on a sea stack at Shi Shi beach.
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  • Smoke and flames rise as Bureau of Land Management fire crew sets a prescribed burn in Oregon to clear land for grazing and reduce potentially flammable undergrowth. Years of fire suppression create an environment that is prone to wild fires during dry summers. Managing cattle land and wilderness ecosystems is a difficult balance. More than a billion dollars is spent annually suppressing wildfires that burn millions of acres of western land. <br />
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Though fire plays an integral role in many forest and rangeland ecosystems, decades of efforts directed at extinguishing every fire that burned on public lands have disrupted the natural fire regimes that once existed. Moreover, as more communities develop and grow in areas that are adjacent to fire-prone lands in what is known as the wildland/urban interface, fires pose increasing threats to people and their property.
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  • A boab tree at twilight.
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  • Cloud and clear sky over a baobab tree in field with termite mounds.
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  • A logger takes a coffee break near a campfire  while cutting trees in a snow-dusted forest near Lake Bled.
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  • Cross country skier glides along side his dog as snow falls on frozen Mendenhall Lake surrounded by trees at the base of the glacier in Alaska's Southeast.
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  • View of the Montreal skyline from high atop a walkway through Mount Royal Park. Frederick Law Olmsted designed Mount Royal beginning in 1874 emphasizing the region's mountainous topography. He planted vegetation that exaggerated the terrain such as shade trees at the bottom of the carriage path that climbs the mountain, so  it resembled a valley. As the visitor went higher and higher the vegetation was more sparse completing the illusion of the exaggerated height.
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  • People relax in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, a 15-acre lawn where folks gather to picnic, people-watch and sleep under large Sycamore trees. After Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park, a flock of sheep was added to reinforce the quiet nature. In the 1870s a shepherd drove a flock of sheep across the drive to and from the meadow until they were banished to Brooklyn.
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  • Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park is cloaked in brilliant autumn colors of oak and maple trees. The stone of the 65-foot waterfall is composed of Berea Sandstone at the top and Bedford and Cleveland shales and soft rock below from mud found on the sea floor that covered the region 400 million years ago.
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  • A bald cypress tree is warmed by setting sun over the Suwannee River in Florida.The Suwannee is a federally designated wild river that rises in the Okefenokee Swamp in southern George and meanders 238 miles south to the Gulf of Mexico.<br />
The river is well known because of Stephen Foster’s song “Old Folks at Home” where he immortalized the “Swannee River.” Native American tribes lived on the banks of the river prior to European settlement.
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  • Moss covered tree that was logged and continued to grow.
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  • A logger climbing a tree trunk during a logging show competition.
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  • A moss and scale fungus covered tree trunk.
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  • An old tree stump recalls days past when white cedar forests grew in the shallo w water.
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  • A pair of fruit bats roosting in a tree.
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  • A white-breasted sea eagle taking flight from a tree top perch.
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  • A barren tree floats adrift in the crystal-clear waters of Palmyra Atoll.
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  • The brittle remains of dead larch forest extend mile after mile southeastward f rom the Siberian mining town of Norilsk.  This area, known as the dead tree zon e, is a 75-mile stretch of critical environmental damage directly attributed to the to the noxious material dispersed from Norilsk's nickel and copper smeltering factorie s.  Norilsk pumps out 8 percent of all the air pollution in Russia--more than t wo million tons of pollutants a year, mainly sulfur dioxide.
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  • A biker cruises tree lined Espanola Way in South Beach.
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  • Two young foals explore a scratching post tree after watching other horses in the herd pass under it  creating a well-worn path.
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  • Cold, snow and wind turn a tree into a bleached sculpture.
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