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The horsetail waterfall in Yosemite National Park in California as the Fire Fall during winter. The natural Firefall is one of Yosemite National Park’s most amazing spectacles. Around the second week of February, the setting sun hits Horsetail Fall at just the right angle to illuminate the upper reaches of the waterfall. And when conditions are perfect, Horsetail Fall glows orange and red at sunset.

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Curecanti National Recreation Area

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Conservation Corps students clearing invasive species in Seabranch Preserve State Park.

Public Lands & Water

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Scenic Florida wetlands in palm beach county

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A young, female Asian backpacker adds a stone to a cairn on a mountaintop in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. View of the valley and surrounding mountains in the background.

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man gets pulled overboard by a bull shark.

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an elk calf walking up to its attentive mother

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GRAND CANYON, AZ - NOVEMBER 12: Jacki Lyden powers her way up the Bright Angel trail on November, 12, 2013 in Grand Canyon, AZ.

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Man picks up bison calf

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