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Melissa Farlow

A man plays the fiddle for his granddaughter in El Carmen, Peru. The country's music draws influences from Andean, Spanish, and African roots.

A lush forest engulfs Sam's River Loop Trail in Olympic National Park, Washington. This photo appeared among other vibrant landscape photos in a July 2004 story about the national park, which features a rain forest thought to be the wettest place in the continental U.S.

A July 2004 story featured stunning landscape photos of Olympic National Park, including this one of Mount Olympus and its surrounding peaks. The mountain, located in western Washington State, receives more than 200 inches of precipitation each year.

Volunteers in the Florida Keys hold a litter of feral kittens waiting to be spayed and neutered. Feral cats are responsible for killing millions of songbirds, reptiles, and mammals each year. Spay and neuter programs like this one can help keep the population under control.

The March 1996 issue took readers on a journey along the Hudson River in New York. In this picture, a mother takes her twin daughters to her workplace in New York City, more than an hour train commute from their home in Garrison, New York.

A March 2005 story recalled the life and legacy of 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. In addition to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, pictured here with drummers performing, he also designed the U.S. Capitol grounds, Central Park, and the Biltmore Estate.

A March 2005 story recalled the life and legacy of 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. In addition to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, pictured here with drummers performing, he also designed the U.S. Capitol grounds, Central Park, and the Biltmore Estate.

A story in the February 2001 issue detailed efforts to rehabilitate the swampy marshlands of New Jersey. Here, a woman tends to a butterfly garden she planted on the site of an old metal-plating factory.

The sun lights up cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Ancestral Puebloans built the structures in the 12th century, and they wouldn't be rediscovered for more than 700 years.

In Winnemucca, Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounds up wild horses using a variety of tools. More than half of all wild horses in America live in Nevada, and the BLM works to keep a balance between the wild herds and the surrounding ecosystem.