ShareLast week I got a call from an old college friend of mine. Dan Cearley and I worked together a lot when I was a photographer for the Associated Press in Guatemala. Dan was, at that time, a forensic anthropologist working on digging up mass graves for a human rights organization. Fast forward 10 years…
Photographs and story about the hawk and raptor observation and research program in the Goshute Mountains of Eastern Nevada, run by HawkWatch International.
Photography and story documenting the first US resurvey of alpine peaks as part of the international GLORIA project, a worldwide effort to document in detail the plant diversity and density on alpine peaks. This site is in the White Mountains of California.
Male sage grouse strut and call for mates as Tom Beard counds them in the background during the breeding season on this Lek, or mating ground, in the Black Rock desert north of Gerlach. Sage Grouse return to the same remote areas each year to prance and strut and try to attract a mate for a few weeks each spring. The BLM needs volunteers to reach these remote locations and observe and count the grouse at each site to try and get a handle on how healthy the Sage Grouse population in Nevada really is.
On a sandy beach 55 miles south of San Francisco, it takes more than a dozen roses to get the girl. There, at the Año Nuevo State Nature Reserve, 5000 lb males battle ferociously for the right to reproduce at the world’s largest mainland colony of Northern Elephant Seals.