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Tundra grasses and berries
September 10, 2010

Tundra Landscape, Russia

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Rolling off Kronotsky Volcano, an autumn storm billows toward the tundra. This vast tweed of feathery grasses, red bearberries, and green crowberries attracts grazing reindeer, berry-picking bears, and curlews that swoop in by the thousands to strip the bushes of their fruit.



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Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic

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