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Image Patricio Robles Gil/Minden Pictures
A sidewinder rattler traverses the dunes of El Pinacate.
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Image Ted Lee Eubanks
Snowy egret, a Colorado River Delta dweller.
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Image Raechel Running
Looking at tracks on the Rancho El Aribabi.
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Image Wild Sonora
Rancho Los Fresnos is a 10,000-acre project of Naturalia and The Nature Conservancy.
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Image Bill Steen
Valer Austin in the restored grassland of one of the Cuenca los Ojos ranches.
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Image Northern Jaguar Project
Jaguar on the Northern Jaguar Reserve.
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Image Fernando del Real, cc via Flickr
Bison on the range in Chihuahua.
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Image Patrick Alexander, cc via Flickr
Cascada de Basaseachic, Mexico's second-tallest waterfall, is among many dramatic features of the Copper Canyon region.
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Image Jordi Mendoza /CONANP Archive
A Mexican gray wolf, one of five released last October in Mexico’s Sierra San Luis. Within a few weeks, all but one had been killed with poison.
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