Images

USGS scientist stands below quarry cutters setting atop large blocks of cut coral, at Windley Quarry.

Skeletal patterns within the quarry wall at Windley Quarry show how coral formations might grow inside a coral reef.

Looking down from the Pa-hay-okee boardwalk at Everglades National Park,
snail shells litter the grassy water's surface.

A butterfly pea vine flowering in the sandy soils of Long Pine Key at Everglades
National Park.

Long Pine Key in Everglades National Park contains a pine forest community
indicative of the original pine forests of Florida.

Budding spatterdocks are seen floating atop the Taylor Slough waters at
Everglades National Park.

A female anhinga roosts in the trees at Everglades National Park.

The sky filled with a profusion of colors as the sun slowly set behind this mangrove island in Florida Bay, at the south end of Everglades National Park.

Looking across the waters of Eco Pond at Everglades National Park, with cattails in the foreground and a tree island to the right.

Flowering dahoon holly in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Flowering lantana shrub in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Orchid blooming by a swamp pond in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Blooming bromeliad along a trail in Big Cypress National Preserve.

Washed out bridge on the Rio Grande de Arecibo, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Georges, 1998

View looking up-stream toward Carraizo Dam in Loiza, Puerto Rico, under drought conditions.

Water flow in the underlying cavity associated with Ledges Sink.

Logs that fall through the overlying bedrock litter the cavern floor.

Roots break through the overlying bedrock of the cavern.

Flow conditions near Ledges Sink.

Ledges Sink.

Wil Causseaux climbs through the opening of Ledges Sink to the underlying caverns.