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  • A Malawian women suffering from the HIV virus lies in her bed with a cross put on her by a relative at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi.  In Malawi, as in several other affected countries,widespread poverty and the increasing economic and social disruption caused by a devastating HIV/AIDS crisis are additional factors disrupting agriculture and causing a growing food shortage which threatens 3.2 million people in Malawi -- 500,000 of which are already affected by the crisis.  The food crisis is part of a region-wide shortage affecting several countries in southern Africa, the result of a combination of harsh climatic conditions (droughts and flooding), poor management of food reserves and political and economic instability.
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  • A Malawian woman suffering from the HIV virus lies in her bed with a cross put on her by a relative at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, July 4, 2002.  In Malawi, as in several other affected countries,widespread poverty and the increasing economic and social disruption caused by a devastating HIV/AIDS crisis are additional factors disrupting agriculture and causing a growing food shortage which threatens 3.2 million people in Malawi -- 500,000 of which are already affected by the crisis.  The food crisis is part of a region-wide shortage affecting several countries in southern Africa, the result of a combination of harsh climatic conditions (droughts and flooding), poor management of food reserves and political and economic instability.
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  • Erita Tsamba prepares dinner for the community child care program in Michinji District Hospital June 29, 2002. Because of the droughts and flooding in the last year, most Malawians were unable to buy seeds to grow their own food and are suffering from malnutrition because of the ongoing food shortage in the region. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003. US Lawmakers expressed support  for helping southern Africa avert a famine that threatens nearly 13 million people. But they also accused regional leaders of aggravating the food crisis originally caused by floods and drought.
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  • A Malawian trader carries a pig on the back of his bike through the village of Makhwata in Malawi, July 1, 2002.  Because of the droughts and flooding in the last year, most Malawians were unable to buy seeds to grow their own food and are suffering from malnutrition because of the ongoing food shortage in the region. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.   (photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Malawian women suffering from the HIV virus lie in beds and on the floor because of lack of space at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, July 4, 2002.  In Malawi, as in several other affected countries,widespread poverty and the increasing economic and social disruption caused by a devastating HIV/AIDS crisis are additional factors disrupting agriculture and causing a growing food shortage which threatens 3.2 million people in Malawi -- 500,000 of which are already affected by the crisis.  The food crisis is part of a region-wide shortage affecting several countries in southern Africa, the result of a combination of harsh climatic conditions (droughts and flooding), poor management of food reserves and political and economic instability.
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  • A Malawian fisherman shows off one of the bigger fish he caught after attempting to catch a miniscule amount of fish to feed his family in the village of Mtema Nyema in the Phalombe District which is east of Blantyre, Malawi, July 3, 2002.   After the droughts and flooding in the last year, there is a massive ongoing food shortage in the region and many farmers have been forced to fish the small ponds in search of food. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.
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  • A Malawian girl carries beans back to her village of Murela in the Phalombe District which is east of Blantyre, Malawi, July 3, 2002.   After the droughts and flooding in the last year, half of the students stopped goign to school because of  the ongoing food shortage in the region. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.
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  • A Malawian baby is weighed at a nutritional center for mothers and their children in Mwanza District which is about 100 kilometers west of Blantyre, Malawi, July 2, 2002.   Fabiano was one of many severly malnourished children who came to the hospital suffering from the ongoing food shortage in the region. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.   photo by Ami Vitale
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  • A Malawian fisherman stands on the parched earth near where he was trying to  catch fish in the village of Mtema Nyema in the Phalombe District which is east of Blantyre, Malawi, July 3, 2002.   After the droughts and flooding in the last year, there is a massive ongoing food shortage in the region and many farmers have been forced to fish the small ponds in search of food. The World Food Program estimates that 3.2 million people in Malawi alone will be affected before March 2003.
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  Orphans sleep inside the Allawdin orphanage  in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002. The orphange which houses about 200 children who sleep there was rebuilt by the Italian ISAf forces and is funded by the World Food Program.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3:  Pashtun Afghans who were living in camps around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002 and wait for food rations to be handed out.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000, they are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERIHUN, SIERRA LEONE - JULY 18:Liberian refugees walk through their plastic tents  at the Gerihun camp near Bo, Sierra Leone July 18,2002. Sierra Leone is infamous for some of the decade's worst war crimes and the irony is that as Sierra Leonians are finally able to return home, their neighbors across the border are suffering from their own tragic decade old conflict and flooding into the camps which once housed the internally displaced Sierra Leonians. Liberia's rebels have waged an insurgency for three years, but have stepped up attacks recently against President Charles Taylor's government. Taylor, a former warlord who won presidential elections in 1997, says he is being targeted by some of his rivals from the 1989-96 civil war.  The heavy toll on civilians in the fighting poses a threat to the stability of other countries in the region, particularly Sierra Leone. There are about 50,000 refugees in Sierra Leone now according to the World Food Program and 100,000 internally displaced people within Liberia now. Sierra Leone, which has the U.N's largest peacekeeping mission with 17,3000 troops, is recovering from a ruthless 10-year-old war and held presidential elections in May. (photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Afghan refugees  returning from Iran stop in a transit camp set up by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees on the edge of Kabul, Afghanistan where they recieve medical and monetary assistance   before they return home  August 10, 2002. Children were being vaccinated for measels and adults were given $10 to complete their long journey home. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghan refugees  returning from Iran stop in a transit camp set up by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees on the edge of Kabul, Afghanistan where they recieve medical and monetary assistance   before they return home  August 10, 2002. Children were being vaccinated for measels and adults were given $10 to complete their long journey home. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • British International Security Forces patrol through a neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan  August 7, 2002 .    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Capt. Libby Dillon from Ripley, W. Va., treats Khan Azam, 5,in an American military hospital at Bagram in Afghanistan  after they were injured from playing with unexploded ordinances  August  9, 2002.    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Daily life in Kabul, Afghanistan  August  08, 2002.    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Women study at the Abul Qasim Fierdousi Girls secondary school  in Kabul, Afghanistan  August  08, 2002.    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Women study at the Abul Qasim Fierdousi Girls secondary school  in Kabul, Afghanistan  August  08, 2002.    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • British International Security Forces patrol through a neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan  August 7, 2002 .    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans do physical training to make using their  prosethetic limbs easier at the International Committee for the  Red Cross hospital August 6, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Most of the Afghans had lost a limb due to landmines and unexploded ordinances that litter the countryside of  this war torn country. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans do physical training to make using their  prosethetic limbs easier at the International Committee for the  Red Cross hospital August 6, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Most of the Afghans had lost a limb due to landmines and unexploded ordinances that litter the countryside of  this war torn country. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1, 2002:Girls learn sewing in a school that was rebuilt in the village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, August 1, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans do physical training to make using their  prosethetic limbs easier at the International Committee for the  Red Cross hospital August 6, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Most of the Afghans had lost a limb due to landmines and unexploded ordinances that litter the countryside of  this war torn country. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghan women visit the non-governmental organization Marie Stopes which gives medical help to women and their children August 6, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1, 2002: Ali Juma attempts to wake up two of his 8 children Eqillah, 3, right and Qamilla, 2,  in  thier destroyed home in the village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, August 1, 2002. More than 100 fmailies have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans make wheel chairs and plastic limbs for patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 4, 2002:   Afghans who were trained for the close protection team by Italian paratroopers working as part of the International Security and Assistance Force  in Afghanistan hold a ceremony marking their completion of the training August 4, 2002 in Kabul.(Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, JULY 31, 2002:  the village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 1, 2002: Afghan children study in the newly organized school in Anbar Somuch, Afghanistan, August 1, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: Children attend a newly rebuilt school in the village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: Children attend a newly rebuilt school in the village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan... More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • ANBAR SOMUCH, AFGHANISTAN,  JULY 31, 2002: The village of Anbar Somuch,  Afghanistan, July 31, 2002. More than 100 families have returned to their village after the fall of the Taliban and they are rushing to rebuild their homes before the brutal winter sets in. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, July 29, 2002: Life in Kabul. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • The J Bar L ranch in the Centennial Valley of southern Montana experiences a cold November just before moving the cattle to Twin Bridges for the winter months. The J Bar L ranch finish their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Bryan Ulring, manager of the J Bar L ranch in the Centennial Valley of southern Montana, spends time with one of his horses after herding cattle on a chilly November day. The J Bar L ranch finish their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Elle Anderson, 2,  plays with a calf outside her family's home on the J Bar L ranch. The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Cowboys herd cattle at sunset on an August day at the J Bar L ranch, a unique conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Will Sparks helps herd cattle during sunset at the J Bar L Ranch, a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Angolan women prepare huge vats of sorgum to feed the hundreds of internally displaced people of Angola, in March, 2000. Angola's brutal 26 year-civil war has displaced around two million people - about a sixth of the population - and 200 die each day according to United Nations estimates. .(Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • A Senegalese army tank drives through the border of Guinea Bissau  and Senegal  in the Casamance region of West Africa. Rebels in Senegal's southern Casamance [Cassamance] province have been waging a bloody independence campaign against the central government in Dakar since 1982. The Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) has long used Senegal's southern neighbor Guinea-Bissau as a launching pad for attacks inside Cassamance. Guinea-Bissau's former president, Joao Bernardo Viera, was accused of supplying the rebels with weapons until he was overthrown in a coup in May 1999.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  Two Afghan soldiers hold hands as the sun sets near the destroyed Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl with polio and a man who lost his leg  learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  Mohammed Hazim who is crippled prepares to have braces made for him to enable him to walk at the ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan police officer watches a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8:  An Afghan child stands inside police headquarters where a poster of Ahmad Shah Massoud hangs September 8, 2002, the day before the  anniversary of his death in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: ISAF soldiers patrol the area surrounding Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: An Afghan policeman hangs up a poster of Ahmad Shah Massoud September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of his death in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: Children watch as a female Afghan inoculator administers the polio vaccination to the child of an Afghan woman  on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • GERESHK,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: An Afghan child suffering from malnutrition is shown to UNICEF health workers administering the polio vaccination on the last day of a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign September 5, 2002 near Gereshk, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign targeted 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators went from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket were immunised. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4: A Pashtun Afghan who was living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, is relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 4:  Afghan Kuchi nomad children that were living in a camp for displaced people around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, are relocated to the encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 4, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in   camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns and Kuchis are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert surrounded by mines about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • ZHARE DASHT,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 3: An Afghan child who was living in a camp around Spin Boldak, near the border of Pakistan and southern Afghanistan, looks out of her new home after she was relocated to the desolate, dusty encamptment of Zhare Dasht by the UNHCR September 3, 2002.  As an estimated 1.6 million Afghan refugees return to Afghanistan,  ethnic Pashtuns from northern Afghanistan are seeking safety in refugee camps in the south. Numbering up to 120,000,  Pashtuns are fleeing the Tajik- and Uzbek-dominated cities of the north out of fear and prefer to live in the dismal camps like Zhare Dasht which is set in the middle of a desert about 30 kilometers west of Kandahar. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an  Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • A Monk tries to get the last pears out of a tree in Bhumthang, Bhutan October 18, 2005. (Ami Vitale)
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  • Indian Forest rangers take a man accused of murder and illegal logging back to the murder scene in Sonitpur district in Assam, eastern India  December 29,2003.   India and its elephants are threatened by deforestation because of encroachment of the reserved land and natural forests.  As a result, wild elephants are rampaging through villages, killing people and destroying their homes and crops. (Ami Vitale)
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  • A young sorghum seed struggles to grow in the region of Affole in Mauritania where farmers who were once nomads built a dam.  Successive droughts and the attractions of settled life have reduced that figure of nomadic herders to about 10%. Almost half of Mauritanians live in the capital, Nouakchott, which was no more than a coastal village fifty years ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Hilary Anderson plays with her daughter Elle outside their home on the J Bar L ranch. The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Elle Anderson, 2,  plays with a calf outside her family's home on the J Bar L ranch. The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Elle Anderson, 2,  plays with a calf outside her family's home on the J Bar L ranch. The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Ranchers from all across the Centennial Valley help J Bar L ranch brand young calves in August 2012. Branding is especially important in Western states, where grazing of public lands is vital to raising cattle. Cattle can easily wander or get mixed with other herds and being able to identify an animal's owner by a brand is critically important. 

Mark Boone, president of the Montana Cattlemen's Association, says the more environmentally focused philosophy used at J Bar L Ranch, first enshrined by Zimbabwean biologist Allan Savory, has seen a "steady increase" among Montana ranchers, especially with the newer generation, college-educated ones looking for ways to improve range productivity. 

Boone, who manages the VX Ranch, has read Savory's book himself, and his sense is that ranchers "use what fits" their operation. "I haven't heard, 'It didn't work out'," he adds, but ranchers do have to "tweak" things when Mother Nature "throws curve balls." This year, he notes, "drought has changed grazing plans entirely, with some shipping cattle to other states."
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  • The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • The J Bar L ranch is a unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern Montana. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Bryan Ulring helps his son, Charlie, 4, herd cattle for the first time on a sunny November morning at the J Bar L Ranch in the Centennial Valley of Montana. The J Bar L ranch finish their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Ulring, adding that the ranch is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Bryan Ulring, manager of the J Bar L ranch in the Centennial Valley of southern Montana, spends time with one of his horses after herding cattle on a chilly November day. The J Bar L ranch finish their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots. The 2,000 head at J Bar L "never go into a feedlot," said Bryan Ulring, manager of the ranch. He added that the J Bar L is one of the biggest grass finishers in the state. The Centennial Valley is an important wildlife corridor for elk, moose, antelope, deer, wolverines, grizzly bears, wolves and hundreds of bird species. The valley is largely owned by a handful of large ranches, which means their use of the land impacts the local environment. © Ami Vitale
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  • Afghans use dirty stream water to bath and wash their clothes in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans do physical training to make using their  prosethetic limbs easier at the International Committee for the  Red Cross hospital August 6, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Most of the Afghans had lost a limb due to landmines and unexploded ordinances that litter the countryside of  this war torn country. (photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans make wheel chairs and plastic limbs for patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghan women visit the non-governmental organization Marie Stopes which gives medical help to women and their children August 6, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.    (photo by Ami Vitale)
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