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May 13, 2001

Kaziranga National Park, India, 1997
Photograph by Michael K. Nichols

"Setting forests aside for tigers is one thing, ensuring that they remain protected is something else again. Protecting wildlife from poachers requires strict policing, but the battered rifles the guards carry are no match for the automatic weapons wielded by intruders."

—Text adapted from "Making Room for Wild Tigers," December 1997, National Geographic magazine

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Sita: Life of a Wild Tigress," December 1997, National Geographic magazine)

May 14, 2001

Alaska, 1999
Photograph by Flip Nicklin

“Whale-watchers flock to such spectacles [as breaching] during the spring-to-fall feeding season off Alaska, while scientists debate whether groups of whales hunt cooperatively.”

—From “Listening to Humpbacks,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine

May 15, 2001

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, 1999
Photograph by Len Jenshel

"A pretty poison, woolly locoweed, flowering during autumn, can make cattle that eat its toxic leaves go berserk and die."

—From "Celebrating Canyon Country," July 1999, National Geographic magazine

May 16, 2001

South of Rangpur, Bangladesh, 1993
Photograph by James P. Blair

A cow grazes on a paddy of rich three-month-old rice.

May 17, 2001

Bagan, Myanmar (Burma), 1984
Photograph by James L. Stanfield

The derelict splendor of thousand-year-old Bagan is backdrop for local farmers. Some 2,000 temples, remnants of Myanmar's first imperial capital, stretch along an 8-mile (13-kilometer) curve of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) river.

—From "Time and Again in Burma," July 1984, National Geographic magazine

May 18, 2001

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, 1999
Photograph by Len Jenshel

“When the dust lifts, Dell LeFevre will have ended his last cattle drive to the Escalante River, now off-limits to cattlemen. A fifth-generation rancher, LeFevre clings to grazing rights elsewhere in the monument.”

—From “Celebrating Canyon Country,” July 1999, National Geographic magazine

May 19, 2001

Havana, Cuba, 1999
Photograph by David Alan Harvey

“A passion for baseball overcomes the lack of a bat in a pickup game in Havana. ‘We love U.S. culture,’ says one city resident. ‘We play your sports, study your language, and know all your Hollywood stars.’”

—From “Cuba—Evolution in the Revolution,” June 1999, National Geographic magazine