Humans and Nature

Image 1: A free-flowing river: the Smith River in northwestern Calfornia.
Most rivers have been turned into plumbing; free rivers are a precious
and wonderful thing to experience

Image 2: A free-flowing river: the Smith River in northwestern Calfornia

Image 3: The Clavey River flows free in this part of the central
Sierra Nevada foothills, California. Other portions of the Clavey,
a tributary of the Tuolumne River, are damned

Image 4: A freshwater marsh in Sierra Valley, northern Sierra Nevada, California

Image 5: The San Luis Wildlife Refuge,
a remnant of original San Joaquin Valley marsh

Image 6: The San Luis Wildlife Refuge,
a remnant of original San Joaquin Valley marsh

Image 7: A riparian area along the Kern River in the foothills
of the sourthern Sierra Nevada, California

Image 8: A large stream in the Opal Creek Wilderness, Cascades, Oregon

Image 9: A large stream in the Opal Creek Wilderness, Cascades, Oregon

Image 10: A tiny stream in the Opal Creek Wilderness, Cascades, Oregon

Image 11: Moose Creek, Cascades, Oregon

Image 12: Quartzville Creek, Cascades, Oregon

Image 13: Quartzville Creek, Cascades, Oregon

Image 14: Quartzville Creek, Cascades, Oregon