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"Airworthy again, [a replica of a] Vimy [biplane] sails over Java‘s lush, densely populated farmlands [and tropical forests]. ‘By this time my face was raw, peeling continuously from sun and wind,‘ says [pilot Peter] McMillan. Netted arm guards near the propellers help keep the rest of him intact."
　　
　　—From "The Vimy Flies Again," May 1995, National Geographic magazine

"Ancient redwoods 1,500 years old tower more than 250 feet [76 meters] in Lady Bird Johnson Grove, part of California‘s Redwood National Park. Morning fog regularly envelops the trees, providing them with life-sustaining moisture, especially during dry summer months. Congress established the park in 1968, after a study funded by the National Geographic Society revealed that logging had destroyed all but 15 percent of the original two-million-acre [809,400 hectare] forest. Without federal protection, redwoods such as these looming above a visitor probably would not exist today."
　　
　　—Text and photograph from the National Geographic book Our Threatened Inheritance, 1984

"[Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge‘s] 9,460 acres [3,828 hectares] of forest, marsh, and beach support a mix of wildlife, including some 260 species of birds. . . . Attracted by the promise of wilderness still intact, some of Chincoteague‘s million visitors a year seek out such secluded spots."
　　
　　—Text from the National Geographic book Our Threatened Inheritance, 1984

"[The Yakima Indians, such as the woman pictured] roamed from northern Oregon to Canada and from the Bitterroots of Montana. Today the. . . .Yakima Indian Nation, the legal descendents of 14 nomadic tribes and bands whose archeology dates from 14,000 years ago, looks restively to the future from the relative confines of a 2,000-square-mile [5,180-square-kilometer] reservation, slightly larger than the state of Delaware. . . .
　　
　　"But the old Yakimas required nearly ten times that. They fished a hundred miles [160 kilometers] from where they dug wild roots. They rode into Montana for Buffalo. They were hunters and food-gatherers, not farmers."
　　
　　—Text from "Washington‘s Bountiful Yakima Valley," November 1978, National Geographic magazine