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  • A large,  old growth bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) tree in Barataria Preserve, part of Jean Lafitte<br />
National Historical Park and Preserve,<br />
Louisiana
    61615bt-103.jpg
  • Andi Mitchell, Preserve Steward for The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, repairs a fence line in preparation to open the grassland to cattle grazing. The old barbed wire fence is being maintained  to contain cattle while allowing wildlife, such as elk and deer, to pass. (fully released)
    Zumwalt_Prairie-OR-MRD64-035.jpg
  • Andi Mitchell, Preserve Steward for The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, moves a rock to repair a fence line in preparation to open the grassland to cattle grazing. Zumwalt Praire is the largest and highest quality bunchgrass prairie left in North America. Most bunchgrass prairies have been converted to agriculture.
    Zumwalt_Prairie-OR-MRD64-037.jpg
  • Andi Mitchell, Preserve Steward for The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, surveys a fence line in preparation to open the grassland to cattle grazing. The old barbed wire fence is being maintained to contain cattle while allowing wildlife, such as elk and deer, to pass.
    Zumwalt_Prairie-OR-MRD64-034.jpg
  • Andi Mitchell, Preserve Steward for The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, repairs a fence line in preparation to open the grassland to cattle grazing. The old barbed wire fence is being maintained  to contain cattle while allowing wildlife, such as elk and deer, to pass. (Fully released)
    Zumwalt_Prairie-OR-MRD64-032.jpg
  • During a weed survey, preserve ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, Rob Taylor, looks for "the sign of the beast" – patterns that indicate if this plant in a native grass or an invasive weed. Keeping out foreign weeds, and allowing native vegetation to flourish on the Zumwalt Prairie Preserve is a Conservancy priority. (Fully released)
    Prairie_Survey-OR-MRD64-027.jpg
  • Andi Mitchell, Preserve Steward for The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, checks an antique range fence in preparation to open the grassland to cattle grazing. The old barbed wire fence is being maintained to contain cattle while allowing wildlife, such as elk and deer, to pass. (fully released)
    Zumwalt_Prairie-OR-MRD64-033.jpg
  • Staff botanist for The Nature Conservancy, Susan Geer, works to distinguish native plants and non-native plants during a weed survey on Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. While a seemingly impossible task given the scope of the grassland, preserve employees and volunteers work to keep the prairie as ecologically healthy as possible. (Fully released)
    Prairie_Survey-OR-MRD64-030.jpg
  • Preserve ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, Rob Taylor, consults with Catherine Parks from the US Forest Service during a weed survey on Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. Keeping out foreign weeds, and allowing native vegetation to flourish is a Conservancy priority on the rare grassland. (Fully released0
    Prairie_Survey-OR-MRD64-028.jpg
  • Preserve ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, Rob Taylor, inspects grassland plants during a weed survey on  Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. Keeping out foreign weeds, and allowing native vegetation to flourish is a Conservancy priority on the rare grassland. (Fully released)
    Prairie_Survey-OR-MRD64-026.jpg
  • Preserve ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, Rob Taylor, inspects grassland plants during a weed survey on  Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. Keeping out foreign weeds, and allowing native vegetation to flourish is a Conservancy priority on the rare grassland. (Fully released)
    Prairie_Survey-OR-MRD64-025.jpg
  • A belding ground squirrel pup nuzzles up to his mother on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. The pups first emerged from their burrow the previous week. Called locally &quot;red diggers&quot;, they provide a food source for one of tha largest concentrations of breeding raptors in North America. <br />
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A belding ground squirrel pup nuzzles up to his mother on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. The pups first emerged from their burrow the previous week. Called locally &quot;red diggers&quot;, they provide a food source for one of tha largest concentrations of breeding raptors in North America.
    belding_ground_squirrel-OR-MRD64-007.jpg
  • Field of common camas flower (Camassia quamash) on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. Late June 2001. This Preserve contains some of the largest, most intact examples of bunchgrass prairie left in North America.
    camas_flower-MDurham301_11.jpg
  • Field of common camas flower (Camassia quamash) on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. Late June 2001. This Preserve contains some of the largest, most intact examples of bunchgrass prairie left in North America.
    camas_flower-MDurham299_11.jpg
  • A trail leading to The Nature Conservancy's Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast.
    forest_trail-81712-115.jpg
  • a black leafcutter bee (Megachile sp.) flies around sagebrush in the high-desert of Washington.  Photographed  at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve.
    black_leafcutter_bee_61709ln-33.jpg
  • A trail leading to The Nature Conservancy's Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast.
    forest_trail-81712-117.jpg
  • A trail leading to The Nature Conservancy's Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast.
    forest_trail-81712-107.jpg
  • A trail leading to The Nature Conservancy's Cascade Head Preserve on the Oregon Coast.
    forest_trail-81712-106.jpg
  • A anthidium bee (Anthidium sp) flies near a Salt heliotrope (Heliotropium Curassavicum) flower. Photographed in the high-desert of Washington, at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve.
    anthidium_bee_61909NB-28.jpg
  • A black and yellow mud dauber wasp (Sceliphron caementarium) flying off of a Salt heliotrope (Heliotropium Curassavicum) flower. Photographed in the high-desert of Washington, at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve.
    black_and_yellow_mud_dauber_wasp_618...jpg
  • A polistes paper wasp (Polistes sp.) flies near a salt heliotrope flower. Photographed in the high-desert of Washington, at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve.
    polistes_paper_wasp_61809WlAp-5.jpg
  • A anthidium bee (Anthidium sp) flies near a Salt heliotrope (Heliotropium Curassavicum) flower. Photographed in the high-desert of Washington, at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve.
    anthidium_bee_61909NB-33.jpg
  • A Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) emerging from a den at night in Timucuan Ecologic and Historical Preserve, Florida.
    51517NC-110.jpg
  • A burying beetle (Nicrophorus defodiens) in flight. Cascade Head Preserve, Oregon Coast.
    flying_beetle_oregon-IMG_3851.jpg
  • A wild mariposa lily (Calochortus macrocarpus) at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve, central Washington.
    mariposa_lily_62009MPl-3-Edit.jpg
  • A mound ant colony (Formica spp.) in the middle of a bunchgrass prairie in Notheast Oregon. May 2001. This is part of The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. This area contains some of the largest remaining intact bunchgrass prairies left in North America
    ant_mound-MDurham407_13.jpg
  • Great Basin Fritillary butterfly (Speyeria egleis) on Varileaf Phacelia bloom (Phacelia heterophylla) on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Praire Preserve in NE Oregon.
    Fritillary_butterfly-MDurham302_11.jpg
  • Western long-eared bat (Myotis evotis) flying at night over The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve in Eastern Oregon.
    prairie_bat-MDurham256_5.jpg
  • Male vivid dancer damselfly (Argia vivida) in flight. Photographed with a high-speed camera on the Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, Oregon.
    vivid_dancer_damselfly_110406DZ1.jpg
  • A gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) emerging from its burrow in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51715gt-110.jpg
  • Replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-129.jpg
  • Replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-128.jpg
  • A moat surrounds the replica of Fort Caroline found in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-125.jpg
  • A French cannon in a replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-123.jpg
  • A French cannon in a replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-121.jpg
  • A colony of Red-jointed or brackish water fiddler crabs (Uca minax) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51415tc-134.jpg
  • A colony of Red-jointed or brackish water fiddler crabs (Uca minax) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51415tc-120.jpg
  • The salt marsh of the Timucuan Ecological <br />
and Historic Preserve provides a habitat for diverse animal and plant life.
    51315tp-129.jpg
  • A nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) foraging at dusk in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51517NC-102.jpg
  • eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) beds in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida. The beds were closed to harvesting 1994 due to water quality concerns.
    51215ob-121.jpg
  • eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) beds in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida. The beds were closed to harvesting 1994 due to water quality concerns.
    51215ob-103.jpg
  • A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) and a cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) hunting in the salt marsh at Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51115gf3-145.jpg
  • Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) covers a water oak tree (Quercus nigra) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51015gf2-129.jpg
  • Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) covers a water oak tree (Quercus nigra) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51015gf2-126.jpg
  • Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) covers a water oak tree (Quercus nigra) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51015gf2-124.jpg
  • Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) covers a water oak tree (Quercus nigra) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51015gf2-122.jpg
  • A restored 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. Un-restored cabins are visible in the background. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-115.jpg
  • A restored 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-113.jpg
  • Remains of a 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-108.jpg
  • Remains of a 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-104.jpg
  • A burying beetle (Nicrophorus defodiens) in flight. Cascade Head Preserve, Oregon Coast.
    flying_beetle_oregon-IMG_3849.jpg
  • A burying beetle (Nicrophorus defodiens) in flight. Cascade Head Preserve, Oregon Coast.
    flying_beetle_oregon-IMG_3714.jpg
  • A burying beetle (Nicrophorus defodiens) in flight. Cascade Head Preserve, Oregon Coast.
    flying_beetle_oregon-IMG_3708.jpg
  • A wild mariposa lily (Calochortus macrocarpus) at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve, central Washington.
    mariposa_lily_62009MPl-53.jpg
  • Biologist Leigh Stuemke collecting statitistics on a temporarily captive Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    bat_research_33009RFb-39-1.jpg
  • Biologist Leigh Stuemke collecting statitistics on a temporarily captive Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    bat_research_33009RFb-33-1.jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • Biologist Leigh Stuemke collecting statitistics on a temporarily captive Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    bat_research_33009RFb-15-1.jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, one of the largest remaining intact bunchgrass prairies in North America. Storm clouds are about to drench the parched grassland. © Michael Durham / www.Durmphoto.com
    prairie_storm-Zprairie1.jpg
  • Staff botanist for The Nature Conservancy, Susan Geer, works to distinguish native plants and non-native plants during a weed survey on Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. Bunchgrass prairies may contain thousands of native plants and some weeds as well. Keeping the native plants and eliminating weeds is a priority on the rare grassland.
    Prairie_Survey-OR-MRD64-029.jpg
  • A belding ground squirrel pup nuzzles up to his mother on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve. The pups first emerged from their burrow the previous week. Called locally &quot;red diggers&quot;, they provide a food source for one of tha largest concentrations of breeding raptors in North America.
    belding_ground_squirrel-OR-MRD64-006.jpg
  • Frost bound Snake River phlox (Phlox colubrina) on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve.
    icy_flower-MDurham300_11.jpg
  • Frost bound snake river phlox (Phlox colubrina), early Spring. The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, Oregon.
    icy_phlox_flower_12307022.jpg
  • Forest in the South Slough Preserve, Oregon Coast.
    coastal_forest-111403.jpg
  • A gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) emerging from its burrow in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51715gt-124-Edit.jpg
  • A nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) foraging at dusk in near the burrow of a gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51715gt-109.jpg
  • A gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) emerging from its burrow in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51715gt-107-Edit.jpg
  • Replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-118.jpg
  • Replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-116.jpg
  • Replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-112.jpg
  • Replica of Fort Caroline in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. Fort Caroline memorializes the short-lived French presence in sixteenth century Florida.
    51515tc-108.jpg
  • A colony of Red-jointed or brackish water fiddler crabs (Uca minax) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51415tc-122.jpg
  • The salt marsh of the Timucuan Ecological <br />
and Historic Preserve provides a habitat for diverse animal and plant life.
    51315tp-140.jpg
  • The salt marsh of the Timucuan Ecological <br />
and Historic Preserve provides a habitat for diverse animal and plant life.
    51315tp-131.jpg
  • The salt marsh of the Timucuan Ecological <br />
and Historic Preserve provides a habitat for diverse animal and plant life.
    51315tp-117.jpg
  • eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) beds in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida. The beds were closed to harvesting 1994 due to water quality concerns.
    51215ob-170.jpg
  • eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) beds in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida. The beds were closed to harvesting 1994 due to water quality concerns.
    51215ob-158.jpg
  • eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) beds in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida. The beds were closed to harvesting 1994 due to water quality concerns.
    51215ob-156.jpg
  • A Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) photographed at night in Timucuan Ecologic and Historical Preserve, Florida.
    51215op-139.jpg
  • A Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) photographed at night in Timucuan Ecologic and Historical Preserve, Florida.
    51215op-127.jpg
  • Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) covers a water oak tree (Quercus nigra) in Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Florida.
    51015gf2-119.jpg
  • A restored 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-112.jpg
  • A restored 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-111.jpg
  • Remains of a 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-102.jpg
  • Remains of a 200 year old slave cabin from the Kingsley Plantation in the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Florida. The cabins are made from Tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, sand, and water.
    51015gf2-101.jpg
  • A wild mariposa lily (Calochortus macrocarpus) at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve, central Washington.
    mariposa_lily_62009MPl-21.jpg
  • A wild mariposa lily (Calochortus macrocarpus) at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve, central Washington.
    mariposa_lily_62009MPl-18.jpg
  • A green mason bee (Osmia sp) flies away from an annthidium bee (Anthidium sp) while it nectars on a Salt heliotrope (Heliotropium Curassavicum) flower. Photographed in the high-desert of Washington, at The Nature Conservancy's Whisper Lake Preserve.
    native_bees_61909NB-25.jpg
  • Biologist Leigh Stuemke collecting statitistics on a temporarily captive Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    bat_research_33009RFb-42-1.jpg
  • Biologist Leigh Stuemke releases a Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) after collecting dna and data. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    bat_research_33009RFb-28-1.jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • A Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) flying at night. Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.
    Rafinesque's_Big-eared_Bat_33009RFb-...jpg
  • Spring weather in Wallowa County changes rapidly. May 14 dawned clear and warm with temperatures heading into the upper 70's. Afternoon brought a sudden electrical storm with heavy winds and rain, only to be followed by clear skies, and warm sun again. This rainbow, over a barn on The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve, harkened the breaking of the storm.
    Zumwalt-OR-MRD64-038.jpg
  • (from left to right) Robert Taylor, Phil Shephard, Catherine Parks, and Susan Geer study a map before surveying The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve for non-native and invasive weeds. Keeping foreign plants out, and native plants in, is a Conservancy priority for managing the rare grassland. (Fully released)
    Prairie_Survey-OR-MRD64-024.jpg
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