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September 13, 2012 - Bobcat at NWTC caught with a motion-detection sensor and camera. (Photo by Tom Ryon / NREL)
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June 2, 2012 - Bald eagles nest along Coal Creek and at Standley Lake north of the STM and are occasionally seen on lands adjacent to the NWTC. Sightings of eagles on the STM site or at the NWTC are very infrequent. (Photo by Tom Ryon / NREL)..
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January 14, 2011 - Wildlife Management - Black-capped chickadee. (Bob Fiehweg / NREL)
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June 1, 2006 - A variety of wildlife can be spotted around the south table mountain. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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June 1, 2006 - A variety of wildlife can be spotted around the south table mountain site. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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June 1, 2006 - A variety of wildlife can be spotted around the south table mountain site. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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June 1, 2006 - A variety of wildlife can be spotted around the south table mountain site like this coyote out in a field. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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December 2, 2006 - A variety of wildlife can be spotted around the south table mountain site. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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July 8, 2005 - A variety of wildlife can be seen around campus, including this bunch of Mule Deer that still have the velvet on their antlers. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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July 8, 2005 - A variety of wildlife can be seen around campus, including the bunch of Mule Deer that still have this velvet on their antlers. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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May 16, 2005 - A variety of animal life can be spotted around campus. Here you see a Mountain Cottontail rabbit. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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May 24, 2004 - Dave Albin looking at a deer outside that window of the SERF, north side. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL )
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October 18, 2006 - A variety of wildlife can be spotted around the south table mountain site like this coyote out in a field. (Photo by Brent Nelson / NREL)
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September 28, 2012 - Talk about a close encounter! This elk was spotted alongside the Quaker Street dirt road leading up the hill to NREL's facilities on South Table Mesa. Other animals known to frequent the mesa from time to time include mountain sheep,
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September 27, 2012 - A red-tailed hawk eats a rabbit in front of the visitor Center at NREL's South Table Mountain campus. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
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September 26, 2012 - An adult Red-tailed Hawk visits NREL's Visitors Center. (Photo by Ronda Tennison-Whitt)
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June 12, 2012 - A doe with her days old fawn, hanging out between the S&TF and ESIF, drew lots of attention from well wishers as the fawn and doe became separated by a construction fence. They were quickly reunited. (Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL)
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May 21, 2010 - NREL optimizes plant establishment while providing wildlife habitat spaces for nesting birds such the lark sparrow. (Photo by Brenda Beatty / NREL)
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A stag herd of mule deer seek relief from the summer heat in the shadows behind the Thermal Test Facility (TTF).
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Sometimes rattlesnakes get in the way. During one of NREL researcher Lee Elliott's algae field trips, he encountered a four-foot rattlesnake. He used a long stick to move it away from the pond.
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NREL wildlife on South Table Mountain with foothills, the solar furnace and SAIC's Stirling engine in the background.
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The amphitheater was constructed in the depression years of 1934-35 during Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Camp George West's transient camp put 200 - 500 homeless to work on various projects including the amphitheater.
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Rattlesnakes, like the one spotted recently in front of the Visitors Center, are common in the grass and brush that cover the sun-baked hillsides surrounding NREL's South Table Mountain site. Employees and visitors need to stay alert and use caution arou
















