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Male elk bugling during the fall rut. Large male elk are known as bulls. Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Male elk engage in competitive mating behaviors during the rut, including posturing, antler wrestling and bugling, a loud series of screams which is intended to establish dominance over other males and attract females. Image ID: 19693 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA	Cholla cactus, brittlebush, ocotillo and various cacti and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10975 Species: Opuntia, Encelia farinosa, Fouquieria splendens Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA	Waterfall at Temple of Sinawava during peak flow following spring rainstorm. Zion Canyon. Image ID: 12450 Location: Temple of Sinawava, Zion National Park, Utah, USA

Vernal Falls at peak flow in late spring, with a rainbow appearing in the spray of the falls, viewed from the Mist Trail. Image ID: 12634 Location: Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA	Grand Prismatic Spring (left) and Excelsior Geyser (right). Grand Prismatic Spring displays a stunning rainbow of colors created by species of thermophilac (heat-loving) bacteria that thrive in narrow temperature ranges. The blue water in the center is too hot to support any bacterial life, while the outer orange rings are the coolest water. Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest spring in the United States and the third-largest in the world. Midway Geyser Basin. Image ID: 13571 Location: Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA	A Florida manatee, or West Indian Manatee, swims slowly through the clear waters of Crystal River. Image ID: 02696 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA

Yosemite Valley Tunnel View, Storm clouds at sunset, Yosemite National Park. Image ID: 34542 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 7653 x 12541	Yosemite Falls at peak flow in late spring, viewed from Cooks Meadow. Image ID: 12631 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA	Yosemite Falls and rainbow, Half Dome in distance, viewed from the Yosemite Falls trail, spring. Image ID: 27742 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Yosemite Falls reflected in flooded meadow. The Merced River floods its banks in spring, forming beautiful reflections of Yosemite Falls. Image ID: 26887 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 5256 x 11469

Dune Evening Primrose bloom in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33186 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera deltoides Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA	Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33247 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA	Wildflowers Bloom in Spring, Joshua Tree National Park. Image ID: 33144 Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA

Chocolate lily growing among grasses on oak-covered hillsides. The chocolate lily is a herbaceous perennial monocot that is increasingly difficult to find in the wild due to habitat loss. The flower is a striking brown color akin to the color of chocolate. Image ID: 33151 Location: Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Murrieta, California, USA	Purple owls clover, Rancho La Costa, Carlsbad. Image ID: 33208 Location: Rancho La Costa, Carlsbad, California, USA	Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33243 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA

Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33246 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA	The Botanical Building in Balboa Park, San Diego. The Botanical Building, at 250 feet long by 75 feet wide and 60 feet tall, was the largest wood lath structure in the world when it was built in 1915 for the Panama-California Exposition. The Botanical Building, located on the Prado, west of the Museum of Art, contains about 2,100 permanent tropical plants along with changing seasonal flowers. The Lily Pond, just south of the Botanical Building, is an eloquent example of the use of reflecting pools to enhance architecture. The 193' by 43' foot pond and smaller companion pool were originally referred to as Las Lagunas de las Flores (The Lakes of the Flowers) and were designed as aquatic gardens. The pools contain exotic water lilies and lotus which bloom spring through fall. Image ID: 28823 Location: Balboa Park, San Diego, California, USA	Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33227 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA

Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33233 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA	Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33240 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA	Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33252 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA

Wildflowers along the La Jolla Cove cliffs, sunrise. Image ID: 33264 Location: La Jolla, California, USA	Dune Evening Primrose bloom in Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 35203 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera deltoides Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA	Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33237 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA

Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33242 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA	Sol Duc Falls. Sol Duc Falls is one of the largest and most beautiful waterfalls in Olympic National Park, seen here from a bridge that crosses the canyon just below the falls. Surrounding the falls is an old-growth forest of hemlocks and douglas firs, some of which are three hundred years in age. Image ID: 13747 Location: Sol Duc Springs, Olympic National Park, Washington, USA	Upper Yosemite Falls near peak flow in spring. Yosemite Falls, at 2425 feet tall (730m) is the tallest waterfall in North America and fifth tallest in the world. Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16066 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Nevada Falls marks where the Merced River plummets almost 600 through a joint in the Little Yosemite Valley, shooting out from a sheer granite cliff and then down to a boulder pile far below. Image ID: 16114 Location: Nevada Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA	Yosemite Falls is reflected in a springtime pool in flooded Cooks Meadow, Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 16135 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA