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Chautauqua Gorge in Central & Western New York. © Carl Heilman II

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Pixley Falls State Park within Tug Hill Priority Conservation Landscape in Central and Western New York. © Carl Heilman II

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Tug Hill in Central and Western New York. © Carl Heilman II

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Harriet Holllister Spencer Park in the Western Finger Lakes of New York. © Carl Heilman II

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Coast live oak trees punctuate the prairie grasslands at Chimineas Ranch, a protected wildlife corridor linking the Carrizo Plain National Monument with Los Padres National Forest, located within San Luis Obispo County, California. © Mark Dolyak

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