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  • Waves crashing into basaltic rocks formed from lava flows on Hawai'i Island. Courtesy of pxhere.com

    • Reality Check: Collaborative Research Contributes to Real-Life Policy Decisions
    sheep grazing in a field

  • Ariel Léger/University of Arizona

    • Regenerative Agriculture in the Arid Southwest at Oatman Flats Ranch

  • Millie Hawley, President, Native Village of Kivalina. Used with permission

    • Relocating Kivalina
    village marker and rock formation

  • CAKE, Shishmaref Erosion and Relocation Coalition, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Alaska

    • Relocating the Native Village of Shishmaref, Alaska Due to Coastal Erosion
    aerial view of alaskan islands

  • This photo has been released into the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Relocating the Village of Kivalina, Alaska Due to Coastal Erosion
    island with ice formations

  • This photo has been released into the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Relocating the Village of Newtok, Alaska due to Coastal Erosion
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    • Remote Sensing to Quantify Woodland Canopy Cover on the San Carlos Apache Reservation

  • Famartin, own work. CC-BY-SA-3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Restoring Natural Dunes to Enhance Coastal Protection

  • R. Wilborn, www.virtualterraintours.com. Used with permission

    • Restoring Surfers' Point: Partnership's Persistence Pays Off
    toothpicks in the ground used to count plants

  • Molly McCormick/USGS

    • RestoreNet: Collaboration to Improve Success of Seed-Based Restoration on the Colorado Plateau

  • Jill Clardy. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/, via Flickr

    • Saving Tidal Marshes in the San Francisco Bay

  • Regular Daddy, own work. CC BY-SA 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, or GFDL, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html, via Wikimedia Commons

    • Sediment Strategy Seeks to Save Salt Marsh Species
    island coast at sunset

  • Photo attributed to Lucasmj. Incorporated here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. No endorsement by licensor implied.

    • Sentinel Monitoring of Salt Marshes in the North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve

  • Alaska ShoreZone

    • ShoreZone: A Tool for Coastal Resilience

  • Photo by F. A. Johnson, USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center. Used with permission. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss3/art9/

    • South Carolina’s Lowcountry Prepares for Changing Global Conditions