Scientific name: ursus arctos middendorfii
Location: Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska Peninsula.
Copyright: © Francis E. Caldwell
Photographer Code: 278533
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: Dozens of brown bear depend upon the salmon runs at Brooks Falls to fatten for the winter. With a mouth full of wriggling salmon, this bear has a problem; how to catch a second salmon leaping directly towards him? Thousands of visitors visit Brooks Camp each summer to watch this great spectacle. Since the local bears have became used to people, and park personel are always on guard for trouble, no one has been killed at this park.

Location: Isla del sol (Island of the sun) Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, South America
Copyright: © Francis E. Caldwell
Photographer Code: 226920
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (vertical)
Comments: Isla del sol is considered sacred by Bolivian Indians as the birthplace of first Inca king. At 12,000 feet elevation, Lake Titicaca is the highest navigatable lake in the world. This Quechua-speaking mother, child and llama show typical modern-day culture admidst Inca ruins many centuries old.

Location: Tongue Point, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State
Copyright: © Francis E. Caldwell
Release Available: y
Photographer Code: 298022
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: Jacob and Mia Wilson explore tide pools. Children have a natural curiousity about nature.

Scientific name: Ardea alba
Location: Southern California
Copyright: © Francis E. Caldwell
Photographer Code: 04-8D-292112
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (vertical)
Comments: The long white plumes on the back of this Great Egret indicates breeding plumage. Residing in marshes, swamps, seashores and lake margins, egrets feed on fish, amphibians and on land for insects, reptiles, and small mammals. Range is throughout the United States and northern Mexico. Once sought for manufacturing women's hats.

Location: Saxman Indian Village, Ketchikan, Alaska
Copyright: © Francis E. Caldwell
Photographer Code: 15-01-156628
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (vertical)
Comments: Grotesque animal and human faces adorn totems. Many are family crests.

Scientific name: Henrica leviuscula, Class Stelleroidea
Location: Washington Coast.
Copyright: © Francis E.Caldwell
Photographer Code: 07-61R-324103
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: This sea star can be tan, yellow, orange, red or purplish. Breeding habits vary with size. Smaller females brood their eggs in a depression around their mouth. Larger females discharge eggs direction into the sea and do not brood them. Ranges along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Baja California. Very popular with people exploring tide pools, and unfortunately many are picked up, and they are becoming rare in many heavily-visited areas.

Scientific name: Ursus arctos
Copyright: © Francis and Donna Caldwell
Photographer Code: 02-8C1-322416
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: Bears love to play. Mostly they play with one another, but it's not unusual to see them playing with an inanimate object.

Scientific name: Canis lupis
Copyright: © Francis and Donna Caldwell
Photographer Code: 02-8i-320924
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Comments: A major predator of deer, elk and other big game, gray wolves serve an important function in wildlife population dynamics. Once prominent throughut most of North America, their range has shrank to the Northern Rocky Mountains, where they were re-introduced, western Canada and Alaska.

Location: Sitka, Alaska
Copyright: © Francis and Donna Caldwell
Photographer Code: 03-30i-150908
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Photo Alignment: 35mm (horizontal)
Comments: Salmon trollers are mostly one or two person operations. The fishermen target wild chinook and coho salmon because these two, of five species of Pacific salmon, bring the best price. Fish are caught by hook and line, dressed immediately and iced to be delivered to a processor within a few days.