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  • Much of the Russian Arctic tundra is comprised of mosses and  lichens.  The appropriately-named white, multi-branched “reindeer lichen,” (shown here) is a staple for its namesake and is sometime mistakenly called "reindeer moss."
    RUe 070416-230.jpg
  • Much of the Russian Arctic tundra is comprised of mosses, lichens and tiny lingonberry bushes. The appropriately-named white, multi-branched “reindeer lichen,” (shown here) is a staple for its namesake and is sometime mistakenly called "reindeer moss."
    RUe 070416-227.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
    RUe 070422-091.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
    RUe 070422-088.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer harnessed to a sled graze on vast fields of lichen from the genus Cladonia, (which abounds in the foreground in this image and is sometimes mistakenly called reindeer “moss.”)
    RUe 070422-092.jpg
  • Growing only inches a year, a young spruce tree at the edge of a taiga forest sprouts through tundra north of the Arctic Circle in Russia.  Surrounding it are appropriately-named white, multi-branched “reindeer lichen,” a staple for its namesake.
    RUe 070421-008.jpg
  • Amidst a herd of reindeer grazing on lichen growing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a reindeer calf begins to suckle from its mother.
    RUe 070423-073.jpg
  • While grazing on lichen growing north of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a reindeer sniffs at her  newborn calf.
    RUe 070423-038.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf tries out its shaky legs through lichens on the tundra.
    RUe 070423-043.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf tries out its shaky legs through lichens on the tundra.
    RUe 070423-041.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf uses its shaky legs to chase the herd through lichens on the tundra. Because reindeer are always moving, calves must be able to run very shortly after birth.
    RUe 070423-078.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf uses its shaky legs to chase the herd through lichens on the tundra. Because reindeer are always moving, calves must be able to run very shortly after birth.
    RUe 070423-077.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a newborn reindeer calf tries out its shaky legs through lichens on the tundra.
    RUe 070423-056.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, watches – and sometimes directs – the herd movement as cows begin to calve.  The group’s objective is to keep them in one place during this crucial period, before mosquitoes force both people and caribou to move to higher ground in nearby mountains.
    RUe 070422-107.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.  Left to right: Vasily Terentév, Arthum Khantazeski, Vasily Chuprov, Alexei Semyashkin, and Alexei Vauchesky.
    RUe 070423-093.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Vasily Terentev prepares tea for his companions who rotate living on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.
    RUe 070423-085.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski & Vasily Terentev, nomadic Komi reindeer herders, lasso one of their herd to check its health.
    RUe 070423-084.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, Arthum Khantazeski, a nomadic Komi reindeer herder, approaches the one of the spring's first newborn calves to check its health.
    RUe 070423-057.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a domesticated reindeer grazes in the tundra.  This animal has recently dropped one antler and the next will fall shortly - an annual occurence.
    RUe 070423-052.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, domesticated reindeer charge across an interface of tundra and taiga forest near Snopa village, herded by a nomadic Komi clan.
    RUe 070422-125.jpg
  • Tourists ride in a zodiac raft below a waterfall pouring into Seno Chico, a fjord in Alberto de Agostini National Park, Tierra del Fuego, Chile.
    CHe 080201-274.jpg
  • Southern beech (nothofagus) trees above Wulaia Bay on, Navarino Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile.
    CHe 080131-253.jpg
  • CORDILLERA SARMIENTO, PATAGONIA, CHILE. Southern beech & cedar bog below previously unexplored range at southern tip of the Andes.
    CE 6529.jpg
  • Martha Bellisle scrambles up ridge on Boundary Peak in White Mountains, California.
    BP 3111.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, seemingly infinite ponds and bogs appear as the tundra melts free from its winter blanket of snow.  By June, this becomes both impassible and a breeding ground for so many mosquitoes that neither people nor reindeer can stay there.
    RUe 070425-120.jpg
  • Crew of Chilean cruise ship Mare Australis loads zodiac rafts in Wulaia Bay, near Navarino Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile.
    CHe 080201-004.jpg
  • Southern beech (nothofagus) forest above Wulaia Bay on, Navarino Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Murray Channel and Hoste Island background
    CHe 080131-244.jpg
  • Southern beech (nothofagus) forest above Wulaia Bay on, Navarino Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Murray Channel and Hoste Island background
    CHe 080131-234.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA. Nesting brown skuas (Catharacta antarctica) & moss above Paradise Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, seemingly infinite ponds and bogs appear as the tundra melts free from its winter blanket of snow.  By June, this becomes both impassible and a breeding ground for so many mosquitoes that neither people nor reindeer can stay there.
    RUe 070425-112.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, a few men from the last nomadic clan of Komi reindeer herders live on the land (without tents), while waiting for cows in the herd to calve.
    RUe 070422-049.jpg
  • A Falkland Pipit stands on lichen-covered rocks on Carcass Island, Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-065.jpg
  • Lichens grow on granite rocks in California's eastern Sierra Nevada.
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  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-133.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-130.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-129.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-128.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-127.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-106.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-105.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-104.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-101.jpg
  • Lichens cover decaying fence posts in old sheep pastures on New Island in Britain's Falkland Islands.  The owners now keep grazing animals away from a nearby bird rookery.
    FIe 080306-859.jpg
  • Lichens cover decaying fence posts in old sheep pastures on New Island in Britain's Falkland Islands.  The owners now keep grazing animals away from a nearby bird rookery.
    FIe 080306-853.jpg
  • Lichens cover decaying fence posts in old sheep pastures on New Island in Britain's Falkland Islands.  The owners now keep grazing animals away from a nearby bird rookery.
    FIe 080306-850.jpg
  • Lichens cover decaying fence posts in old sheep pastures on New Island in Britain's Falkland Islands.  The owners now keep grazing animals away from a nearby bird rookery.
    FIe 080306-849.jpg
  • Lichens cover decaying fence posts in old sheep pastures on New Island in Britain's Falkland Islands.  The owners now keep grazing animals away from a nearby bird rookery.
    FIe 080306-844.jpg
  • Lichens cover rocks on a beach on Carcass Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-313.jpg
  • Lichens grow on a boulder near Whaler's Bay on Deception Island, a recently active volcanic caldera in Antarctica.
    ATe 080223-050.jpg
  • Wind whips lichens on a boulder near Whaler's Bay on Deception Island, a a recently active volcanic caldera in Antarctica.
    ATe 080223-048.jpg
  • A hiker walks through lichens & moss in mountain tundra.
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  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-103.jpg
  • Monterey Pine trees, covered in lichens and moss, grow in a foggy forest near Half Moon Bay, California.
    CAi 210516-102.jpg
  • Little Lakes Valley in Rock Creek Canyon, Sierra Nevada, California.
    SNe 110621-026.jpg
  • Geo tourists explore an eerie gorge below the Devil's Nose at West Point Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
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  • Geo tourists explore an eerie gorge below the Devil's Nose at West Point Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-608.jpg
  • Geo tourists explore an eerie gorge below the Devil's Nose at West Point Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-581.jpg
  • Geo tourists explore an eerie gorge below the Devil's Nose at West Point Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-509.jpg
  • A Geo tourist stands atop a promintory called the Devil's Nose at West Point Island in Britain's  Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-505.jpg
  • A flightless Falkland Steamer Duck<br />
(Tachyeres brachypterus) stands on a beach at Carcass Island In Britain's Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-063.jpg
  • Liches and tussock grass adorn sedimentary rock on Carcass Island in Britain's Falkland Islands.
    FIe 080305-052.jpg
  • Clouds float above Summit Lake, The Minarets and Mounts Ritter and Banner in Ansel Adams Wilderness in California's Sierra Nevada.
    Sn 7159.jpg
  • Clouds float above Summit Lake, The Minarets and Mounts Ritter and Banner in Ansel Adams Wilderness in California's Sierra Nevada.
    SN 7116.jpg
  • A manzanita trunk frames Half Dome and a shadowy Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California.
    SN 6983.jpg
  • A manzanita shrub frames Yosemite Valley in California's Yosemite National Park.
    SN 6970.jpg
  • A Yellow-Bellied Marmot peers out from its shelter between talus boulders in California's Sierra Nevada.
    SN 3120.jpg
  • Flowers cling to a cliff on Table Mountain that overlooks Cape Town, South Africa. In the background False Bay stretches towards the Cape of Good Hope (not visible), where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet.
    SA 0809.jpg
  • A hiker walks through tundra in the Cirque of the Unclimbables.
    NB 1188.jpg
  • A hiker scrambles over a boulder in mountainous tundra.
    NB 0540.jpg
  • A rock climber overlooks Gallatin Canyon and Madison Range near Big Sky.
    MT 1529.jpg
  • Alex Lowe solo climbs difficult Practice Wall (5.11), a rock climb in Hyalite Canyon, near Bozeman, Montana.
    CL 8032.jpg
  • Much of the Russian Arctic tundra is comprised of mosses, lichens and tiny lingonberry bushes. The appropriately-named white, multi-branched “reindeer lichen,” (shown here) is a staple for its namesake and is sometime mistakenly called "reindeer moss,"
    RUe 070416-229.jpg
  • North of the Arctic Circle in Russia, reindeer graze on lichens in the tundra surrounding patches of taiga forest, with a long sunset lighting up the sky.
    RUe 070413-185.jpg
  • Towering firs near Glacier Point, with lichens on north side of trunks.
    SN 4446.jpg
  • Towering firs near Glacier Point, with lichens on north side of trunks.
    SN 4441.jpg
  • A Sky Pilot (polemonium) plant blooms amidst lichens at about 12,000' elevation on Mount Sill in the Palisade region of California’s Sierra Nevada.
    SN 2831.jpg
  • A reindeer feeds on lichens in tundra near Snopa, Russia, a tiny hamlet near the Arctic Ocean shores  of the Barents Sea, about 500 miles northeast of Arkhangelsk.
    RU 0126.jpg
  • ANTARCTICA, Tiny lichens in a rocky pool Queen Maud Land.
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