July 4th Paddlers
Boaters take their canoe down to the San Antonio River for the annual July 4th King William Yatch Club paddling of the Eagle Land section of the San Antonio River, July 4, 2010.
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Tracy Rein, an animal keeper, carries one of the five eight-week-old Mexican gray wolf pups back to his pen after a check-up at the Endangered Wolf Center, Thursday, July 1, 2010, in Eureka, Mo. The pups will eventually be re-introduced into the wild in the southwest United States.
A U.S. Coast Guard HC-144 transport plane arrives at the Aransas County Airport with a load of 38 brown pelicans and one Foster's tern on Sunday, June 20, 2010. The birds were rescued from Louisiana after they were affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, cleaned and held for eight to 10 days in order for their feathers to regain their natural water repellency. The birds were released in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge's San Antonio Bay on Sunday.
The sunrise is seen from an RC-26 aircraft flown by members of the 186th Air National Guard's Air Refueling Wing in Meridian, Miss., as they search for oil unleashed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, June 19, 2010.
Neckties are not only handy as last-minute Father's Day gifts. They also provide a multitude of materials and designs for sewing projects. A necktie scarf made by Nancy Gamon of Cincinnati is seen here. "Anything you can sew, you can make with neckties," she says.
Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Management Director P.J. Hahn catches an oiled Sandwich Tern impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Long Bay, west of Port Sulphur, La., on Saturday, June 19, 2010. The bird was delivered to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for rehabilitation.
A great blue heron is seen from the Vanishing Texas River Cruise.
This ocelot was caught on a trip camera at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in the Rio Gande Valley in 2006.
A group of Brown Pelicans covered in oil wait to be cleaned at a rescue center at a facility set up by the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Buras, La., on Saturday, June 5, 2010.
JUNE 19: On Day 60 of the oil spill, this image from video provided by BP PLC early Saturday morning, June 19, 2010, oil continues to gush at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.
APTN photographer Rich Matthews takes a closer look at oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, La., on Monday, June 7, 2010.
JUNE 18: In this June 18, 2010, satellite image provided by NASA, oil from the Deepwater Horizon rig is visible on the surface of Gulf of Mexico. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture. The oil appears as varying shades of white, as sunlight is reflected off its surface.
Kevin Boswell, a researcher from LSU, trails a gloved hand through oil floating on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, May 26, 2010.
Workers load oil booms onto a crew boat to assist in the containment of oil from a leaking pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, Thursday, April 29, 2010. The government has sent skimmers, booms and other resources to clean up a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that's become far worse than initially thought and threatens the fragile marshlands along the shore, a Coast Guard official said Thursday.
The heels of these Simple shoes from Whole Earth Provisions will disintegrate within 20 years compared to a lengthier time for regular shoes.
The solar powered aircraft Solar Impulse (HB-SIA prototype), with test pilot Markus Scherdel on board, takes off for its first flight at the military airport in Payerne, Switzerland, on Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
Earl Chilton with Texas Parks and Wildlife explains how boaters might accidentally spread the aquatic plant salvinia molesta, a rootless fern native to Brazil that can double in size in less than a week, during a news conference in Austin on Thursday, April 1, 2010.
A monarch butterfly hangs on a flower at the Fredericksburg Butterfly Ranch & Habitat in Fredericksburg on March 28, 2000.
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The Las Vegas Strip is seen lit (top) and darkened for Earth Hour on Saturday, March 27, 2010.
The Las Vegas Strip is seen lit (top) and darkened for Earth Hour on Saturday, March 27, 2010.
Phlox near U.S. 281 and FM 140, south of San Antonio. Two years of drought killed competing grasses, giving the flowers room to bloom. Then there was plenty of rain for nourishment.
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