The Working West in Photos

Sheep drive on the road near Durango Co.

A calf roper at a round up on the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community misses his calf.

A wrangler at Triangle X Ranch in Jackson Hole saddles up one of the ranch's horses for morning ride.

CarolAnn and Kelly pull the invasive and toxic fiddleneck weed from a California cow pasture.

The physical reminders of an emotionally exhausting morning slaughter on a small poultry farm.

Carnival as a part of the O'odham Wapkial Ha:Tas, 72nd Annual Tohono O'odham Nation Rodeo and Fair.

Grand Canyon Trust " Spring Stewards" volunteers learn water quality protocols in Grand Canyon

A handsome canine sits patiently outside a bar in Virginia City. Wolf-like facial features and yellow eyes hint at a Canis lupus heritage among his more dog-like traits.

A border collie spots a wayward cow en route to summer range near Maudlow, Montana.

Herons nesting along the Green River in Brown's Park, UT

This was taken on a prescribed fire on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest

This image was taken on a prescribed fire on the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico

A calf shows its displeasure while being branded by Ted Potter at the McNulty Ranch in Missouri Heights northeast of Carbondale, Colo.

Grand Canyon Trust volunteers from Northeastern University celebrate end of hard day's work

Top of Cork Screw Pass... between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado

"Spring 2010" What a Beautfiul Spring this year.

A wrangler at Triangle X Ranch in Jackson Hole is reaching to get the bridle on one of the ranch's horses.

Rodeo competitors wait on the top of the chutes for the annual Bullnanza in Hooper, Utah, to begin.

Helicopter Rescue in the Grand Canyon

the horse is nick,

A colored Angora goat purposed for fiber production. I now own this goat but purchased her from an ag producer in Pinedale, WY.

After morning feeding--Lemhi Co. Idaho

Bareback Rider--Senior Pro Rodeo, Fallon, Nevada

Mule Riders on the Grand Canyon bridge over the Colorado

Hikers at Mills Lake in RMNP

Setting up a net to catch bats to monitor for species on The Valle Grande Ranch owned by The Quivira Coalition on Rowe Mesa, NM

During a training exercise, wildlife biologist Lacy Robinson descends the walls of Idaho's Main Salmon River Canyon with her detection dog Mojo, Mojo is trained to detect bighorn sheep carcasses, which are then collected to determine cause of death. Too often, pneumonia transmitted from bighorn's domestic sheep cousins, is the cause of death.

Thad Englert loads hay bales before leaving for the pasture to feed the heifers.

CarolAnn roles out the dough for a strawberry rhubarb pie from the first fruits of the season.

Vintage truck from a few decades ago

Local Colorado tank cleaner company cleans out the restrooms at Animas Forks, CO.

use the skid to get wood in and some fun after a lone day

Trucks lined up on a Sunday during Togwotee Pass, WY road construction.

A fishing trawler heads out just after dawn at Sitka, Alaska.

This wagon wheel has clearly seen many long, hard days under the great western sun. Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Grand Junction Colorado Rockslide brewery boys hefting hops upstairs

A herd of cattle being moved from one valley over the Cumberland Pass

It's getting steamy at a branding on the Carrizo Plain in central California.

Taken during a calf round up on the Salt River Pima Maricopia Indian Community, Arizona

On the trail to Fern Lake in RMNP

Who works harder than worker bees? This transient swarm of honey bees attached itself to a dormant vine in the vineyard as the bees prepared to establish a new colony. The swarm took the shape of a horned "beest."