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Lake Tahoe fishing bears

Amazing photographs of black bears fishing for salmon around Lake Tahoe

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Hawk migration and banding in Eastern Nevada with Hawkwatch.org

Photographs and story about the hawk and raptor observation and research program in the Goshute Mountains of Eastern Nevada, run by HawkWatch International.

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Nature and scenic photographs from around Lake Tahoe, California

Lake Tahoe flower field at sunrise on the north shore. Stock photos of lupine and yellow wildflowers, kayaker and nature

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Photographs from a Sage grouse count in Nevada. One of many ways to volunteer with the Nevada Department of Wildlife.

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.

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Photography among the car-sized Elephant Seals at Ano Nuevo state park

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.

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