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An emerald pasture dotted with daisies and flanked by distant sand dunes rolls to the foot of a rustic gate and a stone wall on the Irish island of Inishbofin. Picturesque scenes like this are plentiful on the windy Aran Islands, but tourism driven by the many bed-and-breakfasts, golf courses, and ferries, is taking a toll on these once-rural landscapes. (Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine) Photograph by Sam Abell