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Field of Flowers

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Santa Cruz Island buckwheat flourishes again after decades of destruction by feral sheep and pigs left over from ranching days. Now owned and protected by the Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service, Santa Cruz is one of the eight Channel Islands, called the Galápagos of North America for their wealth of endemic species.
Photograph by Tim Laman

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