THE FILE 50,000 35mm + digital.

OVERVIEW Coverage specializing in endangered species, land-use issues, natural history and Americana. A wide variety of geographic locations in North and South America. Joel Sartore has a background in photojournalism and has worked as a freelance photographer for National Geographic magazine for 17 years.

NATURAL HISTORY A focus on North and South American environmental subjects. Wild gray wolves, wild jaguars, macaws in flight. Endangered species, habitats and land-use issues in Alaska, the Amazon, Pantanal, American West, Great Plains and Gulf Coast. Coverage of the hunt for the ivory-billed woodpecker. Recent coverage of energy and wildlife on Alaska's North Slope, and in the American West (special focus on coal bed methane drilling).

GENERAL STOCK Agriculture, families, farming, fishing, grazing, livestock (cattle, hogs), logging, mining, development, Native Americans, ranching, recreation, small-town life.

ENVIRONMENTAL Alaska: Wildlife and drilling on the North Slope. The Everglades. The Pantanal: Wildlife, sustainable land use. American West: Coal bed methane development. Amazon rainforest: Fruits, wildlife, indigenous people, medicinal plants, logging and lumber mills, poaching in Brazil and Bolivia, mining in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Biologists Captive breeding, research. Other: Oil production (on and offshore), fishing, water pollution, shrimping in the Gulf of Mexico, air pollution, dams, development, erosion, hunting, military (including aerials of B-2 bomber in flight), mosquito spraying, traffic, Hurricane Andrew aftermath.

ENDANGERED SPECIES Studio portraiture of (captive) rare and endangered species on black-and-white seamless backgrounds. Coverage includes hundreds of reptile, amphibian, mammal and bird species, many endangered. Select species include the black-footed ferret, pallid sturgeon and the Wyoming toad.

SPECIALTIES South America: Brazil’s Pantanal, all wild (hyacinth macaw, caiman, maned wolf and more), Madidi NP in the Bolivian Amazon, all wild (butterflies, snakes, frogs, insects, lizards, jaguars, king vulture, piranha fishing from underwater and red and green macaws in flight, with young and pair bonding, three-toed sloth, walking palm trees), animal camouflage, the Atacama Desert of Chile. North America: The search for the ivory-billed woodpecker; exclusive images of wild wolves in Yellowstone and Minnesota, including hunting and pack behavior; American endangered and threatened amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, mollusks, plants, reptiles. Ecosystems: American alligator, bald eagle, black-footed ferret, California condor (captive breeding program and wild), California gnatcatcher, coyotes, desert tortoise, elk, Florida panther (in the wild), gray whale, Kodiak bears, manatee, Mexican gray wolves and pups, muskox, prairie chickens (Attwater's, greater, lesser), rattlesnakes, red wolf, sandhill cranes, Steller sea lion, walrus (and walrus hunting), whooping crane. Fish: Salmon and reasons for their decline in the Pacific Northwest; Native American salmon ceremony, fishing.

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS Extensive coverage of Alaska, Boston, California, Connecticut, Florida (entire coastline, Keys), Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas (including border), Utah. America's wildlife refuge system. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ireland, Israel, St. Lucia, Scotland.

RECENT COVERAGE Studio shots of many endangered species (including the black-footed ferret, the Puerto Rican crested toad, the Wyoming toad and the pallid sturgeon). Coverage of the search for the ivory-billed woodpecker, Alaska’s North Slope, Brazil’s Pantanal, Coal bed methane development in the American West.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANS Huge stock project in the works - photographing (captive) rare and endangered animals on seamless backgrounds, as well as a wide variety of plant species.

CREDITS Dozens of magazine and book publishers. Magazines: American Photo, Audubon, Geo, Life, National Geographic, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Time. Books: Abbeville, Collins, Random House.

COMMENTS Fast, friendly service with digital delivery on many subjects.

NONEDITORIAL SERVICES Frequent speaker featuring environmental education and humor.