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Cub Grizzly Bear
A one year old grizzly bear cub in Grand Teton National Park.
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Uploaded on May 24, 2012
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American Avocets reflection (Explored)
American Avocets reflection in Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park.
While waiting for grizzlies I find other things to shoot. Grizzly sows often show up in the same vicinity if you hang around long enough. This flock of Avocets kept me and a few other photographers occupied while waiting for the Grizzly Sow Blaze and her cub Hobo to show up on the norht side of the lake.
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Uploaded on May 22, 2012
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Grizzlies take a sand bath
Grizzly family Blaze and Hobo take a sand bath in Yellowstone National Park.
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Uploaded on May 19, 2012
Beaver
The beaver is utterly familiar, forty inches long, and over a foot upright, a beaver seems like a little person with a fondness for engineering. Beavers live throughout North America. They have brown fur and large, flat tails. They are among the most skilled builders in the animal kingdom. American beavers build structures called dams that stop flowing water. These dams help create wetlands. This provides habitat for mammals, fish, frogs, turtles, birds, and ducks. Their handiwork can be seen throughout the Greater Yellowstone System.
Beavers are considered to be pests by some; scientists actually have proven that beavers are a "Keystone" species in North America. This means that beavers play a crucial role in biodiversity. Innumerable species rely either partly or entirely on beaver ponds, many of them threatened or endangered. Therefore, wherever we coexist with them, they provide the habitat necessary for supporting many other species, and protecting the web of life upon which we depend. A keystone species is a species that has a disproportionate effect on its environment relative to its biomass. Such species affect many other organisms in an ecosystem and helps to determine the types and numbers of various other species in a community. A keystone species is a species that plays a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community and whose impact on the community is greater than would be expected based on its relative abundance or total biomass.
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Uploaded on May 18, 2012
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