The People of the West

Sending love from Rollinsville, Colorado

My son watching elk, listening to them bugle, and wondering how they make that incredible sound... Estes Park, Colorado

Just a day old, proud new mom is excited to show baby what he has to look forward to... Boulder, CO

A man and his best friends soaking up the last moments of the western sun. Laramie, Wyoming

Fishermen on the North Platte River Saratoga, WY

Beautiful morning sunrise in Laramie, Wyoming

Guy Glosson, Certified Educator in Holistic Management, teaches low-stress livestock handling at a Quivira Coalition workshop on the Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico. Herding techniques will be used to get livestock to the right place, at the right time, for the right reasons -- facilitating rangeland restoration.

George Whitten, Jr., who raises organic grassfed beef on his San Juan Ranch in Colorado's San Luis Valley, observes cattle at a stockmanship workshop sponsored by the Quivira Coalition at the Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.

Thundersnow makes it's way west across the Wind River basin in west central Wyoming.

My nephew gets permission to join his older cousins up the hill. Washington Park, Douglas, Wyoming.

Bob, a WW2 veteran, began packing mules with the Forest Service in his mid-70s. He stopped doing it full time after a few years. But now in his 80s, he still goes out on occasion with the mule trains.

A Delta County resident makin' deals for local produce.

Saddlestring, Wyoming

Young cowhand at Cabot's Pueblo, Desert Hot Springs, June 2009. Photo by Joe Ross, 29 Palms, CA.

Alien encountered in the Cadiz Dunes near Twentynine Palms, CA

Local Custer impersonators at the 133rd anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn near Crow Agency, Montana. Ranger Michael Stops looks on in the background.

National Park Service ranger Paula Ogden-Muse teaches a little girl and her friends about birds in the North Cascades. Photo by David Snyder.

On a hot late June day, a hiker crosses a snow field during a hike up Table Mountain in Idaho.

Through the Sustainable Prisons Project in Washington State, inmates at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center propagate plants for the prairies of South Puget Sound. Photo by Benjamin Drummond.

Backpacking trek off Cedar Mesa, Utah 2007.

A long winter in Saint Mary, Montana sometimes means snowmobiling with your best buds. And sometimes finding your best buds mean crossing that fine line between isolation and insanity.

My husband, Tom, fishing for salmon in Neah Bay, Washington last summer .

A long ago backpack trip in the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area, California.

Grandsons playing in Fall Creek, Lane County, Oregon

Young dancer at the Ute Mountain Bear Dance

Cattle being moved near Cortez, Colorado

HE is dragging a calf to the fire at a branding near Cortez, Colorado.

A Quileute fisherman stands on the banks of the Quileute river on a blustery February day. La Push, Washington.

Bringing the cows home in Nevada.

A USFS fire crew still working after a long night on the fireline.

Cow Swim campsite, Desolation Canyon of the Green, UT

Bull calf, Pot Roast, born March 10, 2010 My birthday, too.

Horses Sooner and Boo checking out my pockets.

Looking over the ranch, Karl Knorr takes a lunchtime ride at 'High Noon'. Heeney Colorado...on the Blue River, in the Gore Range.

Monster storm hit the Southern Sierra Nevadas, providing ideal conditions for skiing the Mono Craters. This shot was taken as we skinned back up for the last run of the day.

At the 100 Ranch near Carrizozo, New Mexico

Toward the end of a hot, dry day spent rounding up cattle on the 100 Ranch near Carrizozo, New Mexico. Photo taken from horseback with a Nikon N90s.

Back in 1980, two Colorado Plateau bums (Joel Barnes & Doug Hulmes) took a break near the old wooden suspension bridge along Highway 128 and the Colorado River, just outside of Moab, Utah. Until the bridge burned down several years ago, this bridge spanned the Colorado just downstream of the Dolores River confluence.

Ed and John - many decades with the Anaconda Company, showing us the work they did.

A fly angler enjoying an evening hatch on Montana's Madison River.

Moving cattle in Wyoming's southern Wind River Range.

This photo shows three college students, sitting in the rain/snow/sleet near Sheep Rock in central Oregon, mesmerized by the notion of time passing before their eyes and climate changing over time. Where are we headed as a Nation?

Overlooking a canyon of the Bitterroot Valley, Montana.