Best Photos of 2002: The Natural World

Ranch hands clear brush to save blue spruce and ponderosa pines in Farmington, New Mexico, following summer's forest fires
MARC F. HENNING / THE DAILY TIMES / AP

Burned Out
Ranch hands cleared brush in an attempt to save a stand of blue spruce and ponderosa pines in Farmington, N.M. The early snows of the fall will help prevent this past summer's devastating fires from recurring next year

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