A Red Fox frolicking in the fall colors of Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (Dee Ann Pederson Houston, Texas, USA/Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History)
These are some of more than 5,000 entries to go on display in “Wilderness Forever: 50 Years of Protecting America’s Wild Places,” a new photo exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, which will run through summer 2015.
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- A Red Fox frolicking in the fall colors of Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (Dee Ann Pederson Houston, Texas, USA/Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History)
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- A herd of mountain goats huddle together on top of Mount Evans, Colorado during a lightning storm.(Verdon Tomajko, Superior, Colorado, USA/Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History)
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- An adult male Snowy Owl, wide awake at the day’s first light in Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness Area, New York. (Scott Joshua Dere, Cedarhurst, New York, USA/Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History)
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- A brown bear found in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska holds a freshly caught salmon in its mouth. (Robert Amoruso, Orlando, Florida, USA/Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History)
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- Proxy Falls cascade down towards the moss-covered forest of Three Sisters Wilderness in Oregon. (Thomas Goebel, age 18, Jensen Beach, Florida, USA/Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History)
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- The Milky Way sparkles over Second Beach in the Olympic Wilderness, Washington. (Joe LeFevre, Oswego, New York, USA/Courtesy of National Museum of Natural History)
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