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Desert wildflowers

A vivid tapestry of color

Dense pink fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) grows among tall, blackened tree snags in a post-fire forest in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia.

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

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