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  • A ruptured green balloon lies among ice worms, slowly photodegrading on the Whitechuck Glacier, on the slopes south of Glacier Peak in Washington's North Cascades. The glacier has retreated rapidly in the last century, and is likely do disappear entirely in our own - ice worms, adapted to life on the glacier surface, will disappear with it. The balloon, carelessly set free and fallen as litter, will never quite vanish; broken down by weathering, it will be eternalized as small, mobile fragments poisoning the soil, water and food chain.
  • Scenes from the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington.
  • Scenes from the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington.
  • A young woman is reflected in tide pools as she sleeps in Laguna Beach, California.
  • Monks cover their eyes as they look out towards Khumbi Yul Lha rising above Tengboche Monastery, Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
  • Jim Prager scrambles up Luna Peak at sunrise in the Northern Picket Range, North Cascades National Park, Washington. The view from the summit of Luna Peak is considered by those who have ventured there the most spectacular scenery of the Cascade Range.
  • Kevin Steffa leads a climbing team across the Sulphide Glacier below the summit pyramid of Mount Shuksan, North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • American ecotourist Liana Welty looks up from the base of a giant Kapok tree in the Manu National Park Reserve Zone, Peru on September 7, 2005.
  • A cluster of corn lilies grows thick as Spring arrives to the alpine, Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington.
  • Icicles slowly melt inside a snow cave at the base of Dorado Needle, a rocky spire in the heart of North Cascades National Park, Washington.
  • The hot sun grazes over sand patterns and the sparse grassy vegetation on the dunes of Erg Zehar, Morocco.
  • A lone branch pokes through the snow on the slopes of Mount Persis, Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington.
  • A man leads his mule, loaded with supplies purchased in Cuzco, through a blizzard and over a high pass enroute to the extant Quechua-speaking Incan village of Q'eros in the Peruvian Andes.
  • Alpaca, herded by the traditional Q'eros Inca people, graze high in the Peruvian Andes after an early season snowstorm.
  • A small bird stands on a cairn, a pile of round stones, at Shi Shi Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington.
  • Early morning sun rays shine through the fog and mist enveloping a pine forest on a Winter morning, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington.
  • Lower Oneonta Falls drops a hundred feet into Oneonta Gorge, a tight mossy slit cut into the bedrock, in Oregon's waterfall-ridden Columbia Gorge.
  • Long exposure of the sea stacks and rocky shore at Shi Shi Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington.
  • Ama Dablam at sunset, from Dingboche, Solu Khumbu, Nepal.
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