A tagged northern spotted owl in a redwood forest.

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A tagged northern spotted owl in a redwood forest.

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A tagged northern spotted owl in a redwood forest.

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A tagged northern spotted owl in a redwood forest.

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A team of people and a year of planning went into photographer Nick Nichols' documentation of this 1500-year-old, 300-foot tall redwood. Ultimately using three cameras on a pulley system, Nichols took 84 digital images of the tree, and Senior Editor Ken Geiger spent 120 hours stitching them into this composite.

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