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Winner in category, 33^rd annual USGS phot contest 2009.  Not a real entry--just thought you'd want a copy

Wetlands Reserve Program site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.  Green tree frogs rest on a Wetlands Reserve Program easement boundary sign in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana.

Coastal tailed frog male dorsal side, Brush Crk, OR

View from Summit of Waterrock Knob at 6,292 feet. It is the 16th highest peak in the Eastern US and located within the Blue Ridge Pkwy.

View from Summit of Waterrock Knob at 6,292 feet. It is the 16th highest peak in the Eastern US and located within the Blue Ridge Pkwy.

View from Summit of Waterrock Knob at 6,292 feet. It is the 16th highest peak in the Eastern US and located within the Blue Ridge Pkwy.

View from Summit of Waterrock Knob at 6,292 feet. It is the 16th highest peak in the Eastern US and located within the Blue Ridge Pkwy.

Climbing Waterrock Knob and viewing the Blue Ridge Pkwy below with the fall foliage around.

View of Blue Ridge Parkway foliage from Waterrock Knob at sunset.

View of Blue Ridge Parkway foliage from Waterrock Knob at sunset.

View of Blue Ridge Parkway foliage from Waterrock Knob.

View from Summit of Waterrock Knob at 6,292 feet. It is the 16th highest peak in the Eastern US and located within the Blue Ridge Pkwy.

Bright fall foliage along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Bright fall foliage along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

View of fall foliage from Waterrock Knob Mt. peak in the Plott Balsam Mt. chain.

Evening sunset over the mountains in Waynesville.

Evening sunset over the mountains in Waynesville.

Graduate student Christy Kitterman and Research technician Ben Davis get ready to deploy some gillnets for sauger below a cold, cold dam on the Tennessee River.

Graduate student Michele Casto-Yerty releasing an endangered pallid sturgeon that was removed from a gillnet set by a commercial fisherman on the Mississippi River.

Graduate student Christy Kitterman tracking tagged sauger in the lower Tennessee River.

A captured bird is fitted with a tiny radio transmitter (designed to fall off after a few weeks) that allows it to be tracked, as well as gather data on the bird’s age, weight, fat load, wing size and shape, and general condition.