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Swans at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 23,000 acres in eastern Washington on the edge of the Columbia River Basin.

Photo by David Krohne

Long-tailed weasel at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, 23,000 acres in eastern Washington on the edge of the Columbia River Basin.

Photo by David Krohne

Balsam root at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Washington

Photo by David Krohne

Larkspur at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge, Washington

Photo by David Krohne

Photo by Robert A. Petty
Text by Robert O. Petty, from “Wild Plants in Flower: Eastern Deciduous Forest”

“Spring light in a young forest, a crowd of trillium above decaying leaves – we have been here before. But long before us, before the millennia of glaciers brought summer as but a taunting of the sun, recurrent drought had shaped evolving strategies – autumn and spring of the deciduous forest, where to survive was to win by loss, or not at all. Slowly our curve of earth tilts south again, and here and there we find the ancient secret.”

Whooping Cranes at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area

by Steve Charles

“Bee and Butterfly at Swift’s Farm”

Photo by Steve Charles and Olly Lowe

“Spiderwort”
by David Krohne

“Cone Flower”
by David Krohne

“Pasque Flower Seeds”
by David Krohne

“Pasque Flower”
by David Krohne

“Cone Flower Reflection”
by David Krohne

“Mark’s Gift”
by C.J. Charles

“Flatbed Collage 3”
by Doug Calisch

“Yellowstone December” 
by Becky Wendt

Fawn Lilly
by David Krohne

“Mustang”
by Rob Huntington

by Kyle Nickel

“Bison and Swans, Yellowstone 2021”
by Becky Wendt

“Mallard”
by David Krohne

“Tide Pool”
by David Krohne

“Defiant”
by Rob Huntington

“Monarch”
by Rob Huntington

“Migration”
by Rob Huntington

“Flared Out”
by Steve Charles

Minke Whale
by David Krohne

Monte Fitz Roy, Patagonia
by David Krohne

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