PHOTO OF THE DAY February 20, 2006  

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Where Monterey, California
When 1971
Photographer Bates Littlehales

"Southern Otters, considered extinct by 1900, reappeared near Monterey in 1938. Today federal, state, and international laws protect the furbearers."

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Return of the Sea Otter," October, 1971, National Geographic magazine)


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