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A waterfall after a spring rainstorm in Millard Canyon located in the Los Angeles Gateway Ranger District of the Angeles National Forest on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (USDA Forest Service photo by Keila Vizcarra)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff greet senators prior to at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense fiscal 2025 budget request and Future Years Defense Program, Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., April 9, 2024. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

A total solar eclipse is seen from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

The Coast Guard’s local Prevention Department and Incident Management Division spent the day conducting Operation Pup Rescue (not an official operation) to help find the pups new homes.

(U.S. Coast Guard photo by ENS Nicole Gardiner)

Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets Hanke Bruins Slot Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands at NATO HQ in Brussels, Belgium, April 4, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Rescue workers stand near the site of a leaning building in the aftermath of an earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush hour Wednesday. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

U.S. Army Command Sgt Maj. Malachi Thornton, senior enlisted advisor of 3rd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, reads the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM) proclamation in front of the formation before signing it at Fort Stewart, Georgia, April 2, 2024. The DoD observes SAAPM by focusing on creating the appropriate culture to eliminate sexual assault and requiring a personal commitment from all Service members.

(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Trey Woodard)

Wildflowers are seen near Delmoe Lake in Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest is the largest of the national forests in Montana, covering 3.35 million acres and throughout eight Southwest Montana counties.

USDA Photo by Preston Keres

Firefighter on a maintenance prescribed burn at Lick Creek, on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. September 16, 2023. (USDA/Forest Service photo by Mark Pieper)

The Walter Reed Society provided the pedestal and plaque for the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Maquette, now located in the Hall of Heroes between the America Building and Buildings 3 and 5 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC).

Women’s History Month Program held on 24 of March with S. Baker, Director Office of Energy Justice, and Equity in attendance.

(Photo Credit: DOE Photographer, Charles Watkins)

A helicopter flies over a container ship as it rests against wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, as seen from Pasadena, Md. The ship rammed into the major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing it to collapse in a matter of seconds and creating a terrifying scene as several vehicles plunged into the chilly river below. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

District of Colombia Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that effective March 1, D.C. government employees will have their modest telework schedule reduced from two days per week to one. She cited the need to “enhance engagement with the community, foster a more collaborative work environment and support the local economy.”

Courtesy of: https://www.afge.org/media-center/publications/the-government-standard/government-standard-marapr-2024-afge-members-rising-up-in-2024-to-win-on-key-worker-priorities/afge-pushes-back-on-agency-efforts-to-restrict-telework/

NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, second from left, and Stephen Bowen and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi present a montage to Rolling Terrace Elementary School principal Rosa Mensah to be displayed at the school, Friday, March 22, 2024, in Takoma Park, Maryland. Bowen, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Project manager Sean McNeil, right, discusses details of the Sacramento Weir-widening project with Command Sergeant Major of USACE, CSM Douglas Galick during a site tour of Sacramento District projects, in Sacramento, California, on March 20, 2024.

TSA officials demonstrate new screening equipment at Harry Reid International Airport, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III hosts the 20th iteration of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group alongside Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 19, 2024. The Secretary and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff joined ministers of defense and senior military officials from nearly 50 nations for the 20th iteration of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

In this 30-second exposure photograph, the gantry arms are seen closing around the Soyuz rocket at launch pad at Site 31, Monday, March 18, 2024, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on March 21. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

2024 Hispanics in Energy Summit with U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Dominguez President of CEO of Constellation Energy and U.S. Senator, California Alex Padilla held on February 28, 2024.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 3rd Wing takes off above Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 13, 2024. The F-22 Raptor is combination of stealth, supercruise, maneuverability, and integrated avionics, coupled with improved supportability, provides power projection across the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Patrick Sullivan)

Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in a Nowruz ceremony at the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Four U.S. Air Force C130-J Super Hercules loaded with humanitarian aid bound for airdrop over Gaza taxi from an undisclosed location in the CENTCOM area of responsibility March 11, 2024. Four C-130s were packed with meals and water to be delivered via airdrop, helping provide aid without delay to communities in Gaza that may be difficult to reach on the ground. (U.S. Air Force photo)

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Adm. John C. Aquilino, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, meets senior military leaders from the Singapore Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Singapore on March 7, 2024. For more than 55 years, the U.S. and Singapore have forged an expansive and enduring relationship based on mutual economic interests, robust security and defense cooperation, and enduring people-to-people ties, making Singapore one of the strongest bilateral partners to the U.S. in Southeast Asia. USINDOPACOM is committed to enhancing stability in the Indo-Pacific region by promoting security cooperation, encouraging peaceful development, responding to contingencies, deterring aggression and, when necessary, fighting to win. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon M. Smith)

In the warm light of sunset, a flock of sandhill cranes fly in front of the mountains on their way to a wetland west of the dunes.

Greater sandhill cranes spend their spring and fall in this valley, feeding in grasslands and farm fields during the day, then returning to wetlands each evening to roost. Many visitors to Great Sand Dunes enjoy viewing cranes on their way to or from the national park. Get a list of potential crane viewing locations on the park website:

www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/sandhill-crane-migration.htm

NPS/Patrick Myers

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, left, NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, second from left, Matthew Dominick, second from right, and Jeanette Epps, right, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-8 mission launch, Sunday, March 3, 2024, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the eighth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, Grebenkin are scheduled to launch at 10:53 p.m. EST on Sunday, March 3, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

USDA Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small visits the Mungazine Primary School in Mozambique, a USDA-supported school and school garden through the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. The Deputy Secretary toured the school feeding, literacy, nutrition, and health activities and met with community members, students, teachers, and smallholder farmers benefiting from the project. (USDA photo)

Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, participates in a trilateral meeting alongside US Secretary of State, Anthony J. Blinken, with Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, and Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Carlos Ramiro Martínez, at the Department of State in Washington, DC. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour)

American musician Michael W. Smith, a three-time Grammy Awards winner, performs at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Feb. 28, 2024. Smith’s concert was part of a worship service, hosted by the Office of the Pentagon Chaplain, Military District of Washington. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Aaron Troutman)

Winter storms may dampen the ground, but not the mood of Tahoe National Forest fuels and fire crews who conduct prescribed pile burns as a key strategy for building forest resiliency. This photo was submitted for the February 2024, employee photo contest: Wildfire safety, protection and mitigation.

(USDA Forest Service Photo by Julia Bonney)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A waterfall after a spring rainstorm in Millard Canyon located in the Los Angeles Gateway Ranger District of the Angeles National Forest on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (USDA Forest Service photo by Keila Vizcarra)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff greet senators prior to at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of Defense fiscal 2025 budget request and Future Years Defense Program, Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., April 9, 2024. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

A total solar eclipse is seen from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Indianapolis, Indiana. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

The Coast Guard’s local Prevention Department and Incident Management Division spent the day conducting Operation Pup Rescue (not an official operation) to help find the pups new homes.

(U.S. Coast Guard photo by ENS Nicole Gardiner)

Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets Hanke Bruins Slot Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands at NATO HQ in Brussels, Belgium, April 4, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Rescue workers stand near the site of a leaning building in the aftermath of an earthquake in Hualien, Taiwan, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century rocked the island during the morning rush hour Wednesday. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

U.S. Army Command Sgt Maj. Malachi Thornton, senior enlisted advisor of 3rd Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, reads the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM) proclamation in front of the formation before signing it at Fort Stewart, Georgia, April 2, 2024. The DoD observes SAAPM by focusing on creating the appropriate culture to eliminate sexual assault and requiring a personal commitment from all Service members.

(U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Trey Woodard)

Wildflowers are seen near Delmoe Lake in Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest is the largest of the national forests in Montana, covering 3.35 million acres and throughout eight Southwest Montana counties.

USDA Photo by Preston Keres

Firefighter on a maintenance prescribed burn at Lick Creek, on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. September 16, 2023. (USDA/Forest Service photo by Mark Pieper)

The Walter Reed Society provided the pedestal and plaque for the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Maquette, now located in the Hall of Heroes between the America Building and Buildings 3 and 5 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC).

Women’s History Month Program held on 24 of March with S. Baker, Director Office of Energy Justice, and Equity in attendance.

(Photo Credit: DOE Photographer, Charles Watkins)

A helicopter flies over a container ship as it rests against wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, as seen from Pasadena, Md. The ship rammed into the major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing it to collapse in a matter of seconds and creating a terrifying scene as several vehicles plunged into the chilly river below. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

District of Colombia Mayor Muriel Bowser announced that effective March 1, D.C. government employees will have their modest telework schedule reduced from two days per week to one. She cited the need to “enhance engagement with the community, foster a more collaborative work environment and support the local economy.”

Courtesy of: https://www.afge.org/media-center/publications/the-government-standard/government-standard-marapr-2024-afge-members-rising-up-in-2024-to-win-on-key-worker-priorities/afge-pushes-back-on-agency-efforts-to-restrict-telework/

NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, second from left, and Stephen Bowen and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi present a montage to Rolling Terrace Elementary School principal Rosa Mensah to be displayed at the school, Friday, March 22, 2024, in Takoma Park, Maryland. Bowen, and Alneyadi spent 186 days aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 69; while Rubio set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut, spending 371 days in orbit on an extended mission spanning Expeditions 68 and 69. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Project manager Sean McNeil, right, discusses details of the Sacramento Weir-widening project with Command Sergeant Major of USACE, CSM Douglas Galick during a site tour of Sacramento District projects, in Sacramento, California, on March 20, 2024.

TSA officials demonstrate new screening equipment at Harry Reid International Airport, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III hosts the 20th iteration of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group alongside Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March 19, 2024. The Secretary and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff joined ministers of defense and senior military officials from nearly 50 nations for the 20th iteration of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

In this 30-second exposure photograph, the gantry arms are seen closing around the Soyuz rocket at launch pad at Site 31, Monday, March 18, 2024, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 71 NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft on March 21. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

2024 Hispanics in Energy Summit with U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Joseph Dominguez President of CEO of Constellation Energy and U.S. Senator, California Alex Padilla held on February 28, 2024.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor assigned to the 3rd Wing takes off above Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, March 13, 2024. The F-22 Raptor is combination of stealth, supercruise, maneuverability, and integrated avionics, coupled with improved supportability, provides power projection across the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Patrick Sullivan)

Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in a Nowruz ceremony at the State Department in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Four U.S. Air Force C130-J Super Hercules loaded with humanitarian aid bound for airdrop over Gaza taxi from an undisclosed location in the CENTCOM area of responsibility March 11, 2024. Four C-130s were packed with meals and water to be delivered via airdrop, helping provide aid without delay to communities in Gaza that may be difficult to reach on the ground. (U.S. Air Force photo)

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Adm. John C. Aquilino, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, meets senior military leaders from the Singapore Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Singapore on March 7, 2024. For more than 55 years, the U.S. and Singapore have forged an expansive and enduring relationship based on mutual economic interests, robust security and defense cooperation, and enduring people-to-people ties, making Singapore one of the strongest bilateral partners to the U.S. in Southeast Asia. USINDOPACOM is committed to enhancing stability in the Indo-Pacific region by promoting security cooperation, encouraging peaceful development, responding to contingencies, deterring aggression and, when necessary, fighting to win. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon M. Smith)

In the warm light of sunset, a flock of sandhill cranes fly in front of the mountains on their way to a wetland west of the dunes.

Greater sandhill cranes spend their spring and fall in this valley, feeding in grasslands and farm fields during the day, then returning to wetlands each evening to roost. Many visitors to Great Sand Dunes enjoy viewing cranes on their way to or from the national park. Get a list of potential crane viewing locations on the park website:

www.nps.gov/grsa/planyourvisit/sandhill-crane-migration.htm

NPS/Patrick Myers

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, left, NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, second from left, Matthew Dominick, second from right, and Jeanette Epps, right, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-8 mission launch, Sunday, March 3, 2024, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the eighth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, Grebenkin are scheduled to launch at 10:53 p.m. EST on Sunday, March 3, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

USDA Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small visits the Mungazine Primary School in Mozambique, a USDA-supported school and school garden through the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. The Deputy Secretary toured the school feeding, literacy, nutrition, and health activities and met with community members, students, teachers, and smallholder farmers benefiting from the project. (USDA photo)

Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, participates in a trilateral meeting alongside US Secretary of State, Anthony J. Blinken, with Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, and Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Carlos Ramiro Martínez, at the Department of State in Washington, DC. (DHS photo by Tia Dufour)

American musician Michael W. Smith, a three-time Grammy Awards winner, performs at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Feb. 28, 2024. Smith’s concert was part of a worship service, hosted by the Office of the Pentagon Chaplain, Military District of Washington. (U.S. Army photo by Cpl. Aaron Troutman)

Winter storms may dampen the ground, but not the mood of Tahoe National Forest fuels and fire crews who conduct prescribed pile burns as a key strategy for building forest resiliency. This photo was submitted for the February 2024, employee photo contest: Wildfire safety, protection and mitigation.

(USDA Forest Service Photo by Julia Bonney)

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