351 Free Photos of Pacific Southwest Region

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Wild turkeys roam around in the grass near a fence, at the Forest Service, Regional Office of the Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5). Photo by Bill Williams using iPhone.

Photo: Molly Simonson

Photo: Molly Simonson

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Photo: Molly Simonson

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Photo: Molly Simonson

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R5 Sierra Nevada Carnivore Monitoring Program

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R5 Sierra Nevada Carnivore Monitoring Program

Mexican Grey Wolves are being reintroduced to the Southwest. The population of the species was reduced to seven individuals at one point. The "fierce green fire" that Aldo Leopold saw in t

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Fisher spotted on a national forest in California.

Photo taken by Zane Miller of the U.S. Forest Service.

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Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis, USFWS Pacific Southwest Region, USA.

A happy Western Fence Lizard (Scleroporus occidentalis) catching some sun. Picture by C. S. Brush.

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This squirrel was injured when a tree was felled near the Groveland Ranger District Office. It was rescued and released by a Forest Service employee after being treated by Rosewolf Wildlife Rescue.

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(Martes pennanti), in California.

It is a medium-size mammal native to North America. It is a member of the mustelid family, commonly referred to as the weasel family. The fisher is closely related t

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Taking some bait. Fishers are weasel-like animals, related to the minks, sables, martens, ferrets, wolverines, badgers, and otters in the family Mustelidae. Fisher occur at lower elevations (usually a

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Five sage-grouse leave the morning gathering at daylight to spend their day foraging amidst the sage brush around the Sierra Nevada mountain peaks of Mount Morrison, Laurel Mountain and Bloody Mountai

(Vulpes vulpes necator) in California.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is considering the Sierra Nevada red fox for endangered species protections. Currently the Sierra Nevada red fox’s distribution is

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Male sage-grouse flushed off the lek by ravens, Long Valley, Eastern Sierra, California, March 28, 2018. These surveys stem from the Bi-State Action Plan, which holds the key reason not to list the Bi

The Sierra Nevada red fox, one of 10 subspecies of red fox in North America, occurs in two small and isolated populations in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
It is currently being consider

Kary Schlick, Inyo National Forest Wildlife Biologist, and volunteer, Rowan Baker, UCLA Science and International Development, glass the flight path as sage-grouse disperse from the lek, Long Valley,

A pair of California Condors soar above Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Maricopa in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California.

Condors usually mate for life, raisin

Image title: * Endemic cyprinid fish at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, in southern Nevada, United States. An IUCN Critically endangered species.
Image from Public domain images website,

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Crane in flight at wetlands in Orange County

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Santa Cruz long-toed salamander larvae,

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Joshua trees

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San Diego National Wildlife Refuge

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Dusk in the desert

Coachella Valley

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Milipitas Wash

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Restored vernal pools at Montgomery Field

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Arroyo chub

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Greater roadrunner on the run

Palomar Mountain Overlook

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Gopher snake at Milipitas Wash

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Federally endangered Ridgway's clapper rail hunting for lunch

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Elephant seal

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Arroyo chub swimming in the Santa Ana River

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A network of vernal pools flow between mima mounds

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Elephant Seals and pup

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Pacific Pocket Mouse Habitat

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Johnson Valley, California

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Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse in new home

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Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse in new home

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Morongo Valley

Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse in new home

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Pacific Pocket Mouse Acclimation Cage at release site

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Service Biologist Will Miller releasing a Pacific Pocket Mouse

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Desert Bighorn Sheep near Lake Mead, Nevada

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Restored vernal pools in San Diego County.

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Endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly

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Section 6 property in Santee, CA

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Federally endangered yellow-legged frog

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Partners that made Measure M possible

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Arroyo chub

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The beginnings of Salt marsh bird's beak

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Elephant seals near Cambria, CA

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Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse in new home

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Arroyo chub in the Santa Ana River

Collecting data

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Santa Ana sucker

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Black lights attract male Casey's June beetles

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Partners from across southern California

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Coastal California Gnatcatcher

Juvenile male elephant seal

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Santa Ana Sucker

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Plant ID in action

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Metal mark butterfly

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The thread leaves of brodiaea

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FWS Biologist Jonathan Snyder speaks at the Measure M Event

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Western swallowtail on thistle near Kern River, California

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Comber is getting ready for release back to the wild

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Vernal pools in San Diego County

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Comber, the green sea turtle

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Green sea turtle, Comber, loved this jacket

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Bi-state sage-grouse in Nevada

Tucker, an olive ridley sea turtle, is returned to the wild

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Measuring the size of the beetle

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Bi-State Sage- grouse in Nevada

Bi-State sage-grouse in Nevada

Bi-State sage-grouse in Nevada

Santa Rosa and San Jacinto National Monument

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Bi-State Sage- grouse in Nevada

Casey's June beetle survey site

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O'Neill open space - Orange County

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San Diego National Wildlife Refuge

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Sara orange tip butterflies flirting

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Casey's June beetles are attracted by the black light

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Santa Rosa and San Jacinto National Monument

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Bi-State sage-grouse in Nevada

Becker's white butterfly

Male Casey's June beetle

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Funereal duskywing butterfly in southern California

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Cleveland's horkelia in bloom

USFWS Biologist Jonathan Snyder speaks at Measure M event

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Bi-state sage-grouse in Nevada

After release, Tucker swims in the open ocean

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Acclimation cages in the sunset

Cactus sage scrub near O'Neill Regional Park, OC

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