1311. "Two women model Firestone‘s entrée into the world of fashion: undergarments made with Controlastic, an elastic yarn made of rubber ("Our Most Versatile Vegetable Product," said National Geographic in a February 1940 story). The tire company debuted the rubber product, no longer used in today‘s stretch fabrics, at the 1939-1940 World‘s Fair with a promise that it would fulfull ‘that very much formfitting desire that is paramount today in so much of women‘s wear.‘"
　　—From Flashback, January 2003, National Geographic magazine
　　

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1312. "After being sedated and measured and having his blood sampled [by researcher Alan Kemp], the male [southern ground hornbill] finds his way back to his lifelong mate [at right in photo]."
　　—From "The Shrinking World of Hornbills," July 1999, National Geographic magazine
　　

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　1313. Fed by the 100-plus inches (254 centimeters) of rain per year that fall in Olympic National Park, evergreen trees rise above the fog that fills this Olympic Mountain‘s valley.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Olympic Peninsula," May 1984, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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1314. The Anhinga Trail stretches through Everglades National Park. The park covers the entire southeastern portion of the Everglades marshlands in southern Florida.
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "South to the Keys," January/February 1999 National Geographic Traveler magazine)
　　

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　1315. "Safe among trees in South Africa‘s Ndumo Game Reserve, a giraffe can eat 140 pounds (63 kilograms) of leaves and twigs daily. Linking this area with protected lands in Swaziland and Mozambique means more range for big browsers. ‘Theses initiatives are good news,‘ says Conservation International‘s John Hanks. ‘And Africa desperately needs good news.‘"
　　—Text from "Without Borders: Uniting Africa‘s Wildlife Reserves," September 2001, National Geographic magazine
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in "Without Borders: Uniting Africa‘s Wildlife Reserves," September 2001, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1316. A Nenets woman leads her decorated reindeer through the streets of Yar Sale during the annual spring festival.
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Nenets: Surviving on the Siberian Tundra," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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1317. "Weathered sandstone and limestone call to mind a mad organist‘s pipe dream in Utah‘s Bryce Canyon National Park, a pocket gouged in the Paunsaugunt Plateau by marauding water."
　　—Text from the National Geographic book Canyon Country Parklands: Treasures of the Great Plateau, 1993
　　

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　1318. "Treacherous icefall on the south side of Mount Rainier gives expert climber Lute Jerstad a chance to practice some of the skills that helped him reach the top of Mount Everest in 1963. Although towering 14,410 feet (4,392 meters) above sea level, Rainier offers routes for novice as well as experienced mountaineers."
　　—From the National Geographic book The Pacific Crest Trail, 1975
　　
　　(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in the National Geographic book The Pacific Crest Trail, 1975 )
　　

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　1319. Snow cloaks a covered bridge in the Vermont countryside. "Winter rules here, but the rest of the seasons make up in splendor for what they lack in length," says a local poet.
　　(Text adapted from "Vermont: A Suite of Seasons," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)
　　

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　1320. "Many hands make light work: Rowers coordinate the launch of a dragon boat on the Swan River in preparation for a Chinese New Year regatta. On weekends Perth hits its stride: Fine weather and a watery setting bring out thousands of surfers, sailors, and sunbathers. In this sports-mad, fiercely egalitarian city, more than 80 percent of river frontage is public parkland."
　　—From the National Geographic book Australia: Journey Through a Timeless Land, 1999
　　

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