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Taken 7/11/2017 at Grizzly Ranch, Suisun City, CA. USGS biological science technician Breanne Cooney builds a decoy waterfowl nest for an outreach demonstration.

Taken 7/11/2017 at Grizzly Ranch, Suisun City, CA. USGS biological science technician Breanne Cooney shows kids how to measure the vegetation surrounding waterfowl nests. Density and height of vegetation can influence the survival of waterfowl eggs and chicks and affect their risk of falling prey to ravens, skunks, and other predators.

Taken 7/11/2017 in Suisun City. The California Waterfowl Association hosts a "Youth Hunter Camp" for children at the Grizzly Ranch in Suisun City, CA. Here, a USGS employee and a child look through a tube at an egg to observe its contents.

Taken 7/11/2017 in Suisun City, CA. A USGS employee teaches children at the California Waterfowl Association's "Youth Hunter Camp" to measure the vegetation surrounding waterfowl nests.

A spreadsheet of data collected on Chinook salmon caught in the Yukon River.

Chinook salmon released into Yukon River in Alaska, USA.

Scientist preparing to release Chinook salmon into the Yukon River in Alaska, USA.

A fish wheel in the Yukon River, AK, where salmon and other species are caught by the net, funneled down the wooden board chute, and drop into a waiting net for studies on warming temperatures' effects on their physiology.

Biologist holding a Chinook Salmon over the Yukon River, AK.

Chinook and chum salmon drying on racks near a home off the Yukon River, AK.

USGS biological science technician Shannon Waters lifts a Chinook salmon out of a fish wheel in the Yukon River, AK.

USGS biological science technician Shannon Waters releases a Chinook Salmon into an Alaskan river.

WERC researcher conducting elevation surveys in San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Coastal ecosystem studies at Trinidad coast, California. 

Animated GIF of a recently hatched Mojave Desert tortoise falling down on its back. This GIF came from a movie that was produced by the USGS Western Ecological Research Center and USGS Western Region Office of Communications in cooperation with the Las Vegas based Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, the U.S.

An unlikely pause in the rain made it fun to "collect" this sparkling banana slug with a picture. Taken in the Arcata Community Forest, Humboldt County, CA

USGS Western Ecological Research Center scientist Lesley DeFalco pollinates sun cup flowers for the Desert Restoration Program. In the experiment pictured here, USGS scientists pollinated individual sun cup flowers using a small paintbrush to help increase seed stocks to use in experiments throughout the Mojave Desert.

Coast Range melic (Melica imperfecta), growing on Santa Rosa Island, where it is native.

Scientists from the USGS Western Ecological Research Center deploy to Big Sur to study seabird populations.

Width measurement for Pacific pocket mouse forefoot print on track card

USGS WERC scientist Emily (Emma) Kelsey doing seabird monitoring research on Prisoner Rock.