A coastal Brown Bear and her two cubs take a foraging stroll along the coast of Admiralty Island, Alaska. The adults are habituated to seeing people and don’t associate us with food. This sow knows we are there but ignores us. Her cubs, like kids everywhere, are curious about everything!

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Sunrise at Mono Lake augmented by copper layers of haze and smoke from distant forest fires in the Sierra Nevada.

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Lightning punctuates a late afternoon storm making its way across the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park.

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In Alaska, the fall colors don’t need to wait for autumn. This is late summer and the trees are in full color around Otto Lake near the foothills of the Alaska Range.

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A Yellow Bellied Marmot pops out of its den to watch me walk by. These curious critters are infamous for gnawing through tents or the rubber hoses under the hoods of cars. I encountered this fine specimen and its mate along a trail in Sequoia National Park. – JG

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