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Snyder
Creek the midst of the cedar-hemlock (Thuja plicata-Tsuga
heterophylla) forest in Glacier National Park.
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View
from the west edge of Lake McDonald looking through trees
burned
during the 2003 Robert Fire in Glacier National Park.
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Western
red cedar (Thuja plicata) and western larch (Larix occidentalis)
burned during the 2003 Robert Fire in Glacier National Park.
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A
lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stand that was burned during the
2001
Moose Fire just outside Glacier National Park. The foreground
is
almost pure lodgepole (Flathead National Forest).
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Whitebark
pine mortality in the Shoshone National Forest. This photo
illustrates the spatial extent and variation of the current mountain pine beetle
activity in high elevation forests. Photo taken from Avalanche Peak in
Yellowstone National Park June 2006.
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A
young cohort of western hemlock in a cedar-hemlock (Thuja
plicata-Tsuga
heterophylla) forest near Avalanche Creek in
Glacier
National Park.
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Beargrass
(Xerophyllum tenax) that resprouted from a rhizome after the
2003 Robert Fire in Glacier National Park.
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Lake
McDonald as seen from the east shore looking at a portion of
the
Robert burn on the left in Glacier National Park.
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Michael
Straw relaxing at Jackson Lake after a
long
day of work in the field. Photo taken August 2006.
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Snyder
Creek just before it enters Lake McDonald
in Glacier
National Park.
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A
population of Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) near
Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone National Park. Photo taken July 2006.
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