Venga

Trees on Oregon's Mount Hood still bear the scars of the Dollar Lake fire, which torched more than 4,500 acres (1,820 hectares) of forest in 2011.

From a building overlooking China’s Stone Forest, visitors take in views of limestone towers shaped by water and wind.

A story in the July 2013 issue documented the rich hay meadows in Romania. Here, women fold laundry in front of giant stacks of alfalfa.

A story in the November 2017 issue documented new discoveries about pterosaurs. In this photo, a life-sized model of a Quetzalcoatlus northropi, which lived in the Late Cretaceous Period, gets a coat of paint in a Minnesota studio.

Matt Sigel watches chickens fly from their coop on his farm in Laramie, Wyoming. Scientists say that chickens are cognitively advanced: They live in hierarchical societies, do basic math, and experience emotions. The image was taken for a story in the February 2018 issue on the intelligence of birds.

The meandering valleys of Texaco Hill in Beaumont, Kansas, abound with lush greenery.