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A tower in Valley of the Gods sits between recycled shoe trash in June of 2019.

Tziavi Melendez, 16, dances a Pow Wow style of dance called Fancy Dance in her regalia for a TikTok video to drive a message to get out the Native Vote in their backyard in Sparks, NV the day before election day.

Two student researchers were sent with chainsaws to a debris field above Silverton, Colorado on August 1, 2018. The researchers collected tree-ring specimens for dendrochronologists looking for data about the avalanche cycle in Colorado.

Eli Simmons takes a dunk on a hot North Carolina day in his backyard pool in June of 2018.

Erin Burk reaches out of a fern forest in Point Reyes, CA on June 8, 2020.

Maya Iribarren, 17 years old, cries while hugging her mother Mitzi Rivas, at the #bansoffourbodies protest in #sanfrancisco

after Roe V. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court on Friday June 24, 2022

A horseback riders silhouette is seen through the American Flag at the Carbondale Rodeo in Carbondale, CO on July 4, 2019.

Candido Arias, 53, begins picking peaches at 7 a.m. on Aug. 29, 2019. Arias has been picking peaches in Palisade Colorado for many years and he teaches the younger harvesters how to pick faster and more efficiently.

Renee Cardena, mother of four, and currently living in an RV sighs in exhaustion before picking up her children at three different school son September 22, 2021 in Richmond, CA. Renee and her family live within walking distance from the Chevron refinery in a trailer, they are working for find affordable housing in other areas of Richmond.

Mahnaz Siberi hunts for materials to rebuild her electrical grid from her RV to the closest telephone pole under the MacArthur Maze in Oakland, CA.

Divers haul up litter found on the bottom of Lake Tahoe, CA on June 5, 2021. From now through the fall, volunteers will conduct coordinated underwater trash pickups along all 72 miles of the lake’s shoreline.

The Border wall is seen outside of Douglas, Texas on May 19, 2020.

A Falling Star, one of the biggest predators of the purple sea urchin which has been ravaging the kelp populations on the coast of Northern California for the last decade, lays in a bed of ‘Turkish Towel Kelp’ on June 8, 2021. Sea Stars had a mass die off in 2013 due to a virus called the wasting disease, which scientists believe is due in part from the warming ocean waters.

Juvenile Chinook Salmon are scooped up from the Nimbus Fish Hatchery in the Central Valley and released into the ocean near Mare Island, California, U.S, on May 11, 2021.

A young boy touches the glass around a Rattlesnake at the annual Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, TX on March 13, 2019.

Valentina Alaasam swims in the Truckee River near South Lake Tahoe, CA under the wildfire sun on August 12, 2021.

Mallard ducks fly over the Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge complex in Willows on Oct. 6, 2021.

Oglala Lakota Water Protectors strap a saddle to a horse at the Standing Rock Protest on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota in 2016.

Taylor Gadda pets a Tegu lizard on her front lawn in Reno, NV on August 12, 2019.

Charlotte Benz holds a piece of Bull kelp after collecting it in Tomales Bay, CA on July 20, 2020. Benz plans to dry eat the seaweed.

President Biden speaks at Mather Field in Sacramento on Monday. The President visited California to survey wildfire damage in response to recent fires on September 12, 2021.

Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, happily shows off the Sales Force building in downtown San Francisco which he calls the "Grand Central Station of the west coast," on Wednesday January 22, 2020.

An injured hawk waits in remission at Wildcare Eastern Sierra in Bishop, CA on August 12, 2018.

Joe Purtell Swings a hammer at a purple urchin during a ‘urchin removal’ course in Monterrey, CA on September 9, 2021.

Members of the Native Youth Council dance for a Facebook live stream at a polling site on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation in Nixon, Nevada on Tuesday November 3, 2020.

Whitten Ranch foreman Hana Fancher grew up working on her family's ranch in Wyoming and has apprenticed under two of the Whitten’s previous apprentices on their own ranches.

“Bunky” gets Hydrogen Peroxide sprayed on infected wounds on his head by Mahnaz Siberi at a homeless encampment in Oakland, CA on August 20, 2020.

Supporters of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments rally at the Utah State Capitol Saturday, December 2, 2017.

Mark Hylkema, the supervisor of the Cultural Resources Program, looks up longingly at one of the damaged and burned redwoods in Big Basin State Park.

In a stucco home built in the early 1900s, James Allan (left) and James Padilla (right) are raising a niece’s 21-month old son and caring for several dogs. The family moved into the neighborhood in April. Allan and Padilla said they were informed there may be lead or arsenic in the ground, but they were told it was nothing to worry about. When I spoke to them in September, they had not been informed of the Superfund designation. “Our landlord didn’t tell us at all, and [our child] eats a lot of dirt,” Allan said.

Cody Sherwood waits in the family school bus while solar panels are installed outside Quartzite, AZ on March 12, 2021.

Visitors enjoy California Academy of Sciences exhibits in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. August 3 marks the day that mask mandates are in effect once again because of increasing cases of COVID-19 in the Bay Area.

A self portrait of my quarantine self on my 26th birthday during the height of lockdown living off the grid on the California coast on April 16, 2020.

Robert the hobby fisherman has bounced between oil, sugar, rubber, and grain refineries his whole adult life. All of them are located within forty miles of each other. He takes after his father who still drives a fork lift in the Shell oil refinery, even after having a heart attack and undergoing a quadruple bypass surgery. Robert points to a cement and metal city just half a mile from the fishing hole; a mini replica of the Matrix’s carbon fantasy future.

He and his brother Chris have fished here since they were kids. Still, they forgot their licenses. As we begin to interview them, a fish and wildlife officer pulls up. They get away with a warning and sigh relief as the wiry ranger drives away.