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The crops growing in the People's Garden at USDA Headquarters benefit from a drip irrigation system that...

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Bob Snieckus, USDA-NRCS National Landscape Architect, checks the irrigation system in the People's Garden at USDA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

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U.S. Winter Wheat Progress, October 14, 2012

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Lake Stage precipitation gage at Bonito lake. Little Bear Fire, Ruidoso, N.M.

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Highway 48 bridge with flood stage monitor. Little Bear Fire, Ruidoso, N.M.

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Buck Mountain precipitation gage with solar panel, radio stand, and electronics—Whitewater Baldy Complex Fire, N.M.

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Kinnickinick is an evergreen, woody, groundcover shrub that is spectacular in fall when the berries ripen...

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Small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) ocuurs in peat lands such as the Fall River Patterned Fen on the...

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Early Dutch and German settlers noticed that the cranberry flower resembled a crane’s head and thus...

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Ready for the picking, ripe small cranberries are readily observed against a backdrop of its dark green...

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The Oregon grape in its fall coloring is a collage of green and pinkish-red leaves and blue fruits that...

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These leaves of the Oregon grape are a beautiful royal purple and add to the more common fall colors of...

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Aspen forest shifts from green to many shades of yellow and orange as fall arrives near McClure Pass in...

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A high bush cranberry displays fall colors near Glacier Creek in Girdwood, AK near the Chugach National...

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Black cottonwood and birch accentuate the fall season along Alpine Meadows Drive in Girdwood, AK near the...

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Islands of green sage punctuate a sea of grasses in their fall splendor set against a beautiful blue sky...

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Autumn color on the grasslands of the northern Great Plains is one of subtle beauty. On the Cedar...

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On a crisp, sky blue autumn morning, a lone green ash tree, in its fall color splendor, stands as a...

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