Game imagery & source notes

Fresh views
from the game.

These images show Second Growth’s seven landscapes, keystone wildlife moments, a creek-restoration sequence and habitat details. The wildlife close-ups are staged game scenes; the creek sequence follows one evolving save.

Opening image

Pacific Northwest creek habitat.

The shorter header keeps its translucent navigation and title panel. Its desktop image is 2400 × 1200 px, with a separate 1200 × 1600 px phone framing. The seeded restored habitat fixture has a thinned foreground bank and posed Roosevelt elk, a black-tailed deer, a North American beaver, a great blue heron and wood ducks. Animal models use their normal game scale.

This is a staged habitat study, not a campaign outcome. The scene uses the production renderer and lighting. Header source revision, camera settings and image hashes ↗

One save · One camera

A creek through two game years.

This sequence begins with a new Pacific Northwest free-play game, standard difficulty, seed 1987. The first capture is in May, Year 1. The same save then uses the game’s restoration tools: remove the culvert, pull invasives, loosen and mulch soil, and plant native streamside shrubs, pioneer trees and meadow plants. The final capture follows 240 daily simulation ticks with wildlife movement, equivalent to two game years. No further planting is performed.

**Before · May, Year 1**The culvert is present and upper-creek fish access is blocked.

**Restoration · The same day**The culvert is removed and 292 planting actions succeed, including eight pioneer trees.

**Later · May, Year 3**Vegetation develops in the same landscape. Fish passage remains open.

All three captures use the same camera, image dimensions and renderer settings. Initial and final captures are in the same month. Weather and vegetation still follow the simulation; any naturally occurring animals are left in the scene. Plant maturity is not manually advanced, and no animals are added to this sequence. These images document this run, rather than promising a universal restoration result.

Tools, successful action counts, dates, save hashes and camera settings ↗

Regional explorer

Seven keystone moments, up close.

Each regional image is a new 1800 × 1200 px capture, tightly framed around one of the game’s keystone moments. The setups are staged in seeded habitat fixtures, using the production behavior helpers, moment triggers, model poses and selected-animal canopy reveal. They do not depict a recorded campaign outcome. Select an image to inspect the full capture.

**Pacific Northwest**The autumn rut: adult bull elk enter a production sparring bout, with a cow in the nearby harem. The capture uses the antler-contact camera beat.Hollis Farm · Washington, USA · Temperate forest, meadow and freshwater. An old dairy farm in a Cascade foothill valley. Reconnect a salmon creek, restore streamside vegetation, and establish native meadow and forest habitat.
Species represented: Red alder · Western redcedar · Roosevelt elk · North American beaver.

**Amazon**A living canopy: a red-handed howler takes a real fruit meal on a mature seasonal fruit tree. Foreground canopy dissolves as it does in the game’s close view.Fazenda Esperança · Pará, Brazil · Tropical rainforest and streams. A cattle ranch cleared from rainforest, with compacted pasture and a disturbed stream. Manage invasive pasture grass, restore water access, and reconnect native tree cover.
Species represented: Brazil nut · Strangler fig · Red-handed howler monkey · Scarlet macaw.

**Serengeti**The elephant family at work: an elephant browses native vegetation with another adult and a calf close by.Enkare Conservancy · Tanzania · Seasonal grassland and riverine habitat. An overgrazed range with crusted soil, invasive plants, and a fence across a migration route. Restore native grass cover and movement through an open savanna landscape.
Species represented: Red oat grass · Umbrella thorn · Wildebeest · Plains zebra.

**Atlanta**The monarchs stop over: native garden flowers support a close butterfly view. The map’s moment code adds passing monarchs to the staged group.Magnolia Ridge · Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA · Suburban gardens, woodland and a creek. A neighborhood built where oak woodland once stood. Houses and streets remain while lawns, a straightened creek and shared ground become habitat for native plants and wildlife.
Species represented: White oak · Swamp milkweed · Monarch butterfly · Carolina chickadee.

**Nicaragua**The hatchlings run for the sea: the map’s nest-hatching event creates olive ridley juveniles at staged nest locations and directs them toward the water.Finca El Guanacaste · Chinandega, Nicaragua · Tropical dry forest, working pasture and mangroves. A cooperative cattle farm extending from volcanic slopes to the Pacific. Add shade trees and living fences, restore streamside habitat, and reconnect coastal mangroves while farming continues.
Species represented: Guanacaste · Red mangrove · Olive ridley sea turtle.

**Great Barrier Reef**A manta at the cleaning station: the production cleaner-choice behavior establishes a paired manta and cleaner-wrasse encounter near coral. A whitetip reef shark and a parrotfish are posed nearby.Kalinda Reef · Queensland, Australia · Coral reef, seagrass and an island cay. A reef damaged by heatwaves, with unstable coral rubble and heavy algal growth. Stabilize substrate, establish coral fragments, and manage conditions for reef recovery.
Species represented: Staghorn coral · Giant clam · Steephead parrotfish · Green sea turtle.

**Sumatra**A meal above the old plantation: a Sumatran orangutan feeds on seasonal fruit. A supported branch and a camera facing the animal keep its face visible, with the production canopy reveal.Kebun Tualang · North Sumatra, Indonesia · Lowland rainforest and peat swamp. A landscape of cleared forest, drained peat and village fruit trees. Restore wet conditions in peatlands and reconnect forest habitat across the landscape.
Species represented: Light red meranti · Strangler fig · Sumatran orangutan · Siamang.

Habitat details

A closer view of the habitat.

Three new close views support the ecology section. They use current models and their normal scale, framed more closely to show vegetation structure, stream habitat and reef substrate. The wildlife is posed; the captions do not claim an observed feeding or hunting event.

**Vegetation in layers**Pacific Northwest conifers, broadleaf trees and understory plants.

**Wildlife at the water’s edge**A posed great blue heron within the Pacific Northwest creek habitat.

**Habitat below the surface**Coral, reef fish and seabed substrate in the Great Barrier Reef map.

Reading the images

Game scenes and simulation outcomes.

The wildlife close-ups use staged encounters and normal game models. The creek sequence records one save, one camera and a defined set of restoration actions. These images describe what was rendered; they do not claim scientific validation or predict outcomes at real restoration sites.