The Working West in Photos
SUBMIT up to three of your image(s) starting June 7, through midnight, July 4, 2010. Click on an image to enlarge it. VOTE for your favorites (within the enlarged view frame) through midnight, July 18, 2010.
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Winning Entry
Fiddleneck? Fiddlesticks.
CarolAnn and Kelly pull the invasive and toxic fiddleneck weed from a California cow pasture.
Duck Cover
The physical reminders of an emotionally exhausting morning slaughter on a small poultry farm.
Grand Canyon Trust " Spring Steward" volunteers
Grand Canyon Trust " Spring Stewards" volunteers learn water quality protocols in Grand Canyon
The Sweet smell of success
Local Colorado tank cleaner company cleans out the restrooms at Animas Forks, CO.
Cowboys in Hooper, Utah
Rodeo competitors wait on the top of the chutes for the annual Bullnanza in Hooper, Utah, to begin.
Taking a break from work
Basalt, Colo., rancher Francesca Fender laughs with her daughter Lauren while the two help herd calves into a chutes for vaccinations and branding.
Grand Canyon Trust volunteers in Paria Canyon
Grand Canyon Trust tamarisk removal volunteers consult map in Paria Canyon
Working the water
Deputies with the Coconino County Sheriff's Office patrol Wahweap Bay on Lake Powell
Vineyard Beest
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."
"Desert Bloom"
Carnival as a part of the O'odham Wapkial Ha:Tas, 72nd Annual Tohono O'odham Nation Rodeo and Fair.
Biologist and detection dog descend.
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.
Sheepherder at work in Idaho
Whether or not you like grazing on public lands, sheepherders work hard in the American West. Here, in the foothills of the Boulder Mountains of Idaho, on the morning of June 30, 2010. Photo by Nils Ribi, Sun Valley, Idaho
Rhubarb Pie
CarolAnn roles out the dough for a strawberry rhubarb pie from the first fruits of the season.
Branded For Life
A calf shows its displeasure while being branded by Ted Potter at the McNulty Ranch in Missouri Heights northeast of Carbondale, Colo.
Brew Pup
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.
Monitoring Bats
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
Adjusting Cinch
A wrangler at Triangle X Ranch in Jackson Hole saddles up one of the ranch's horses for morning ride.
Grand Canyon Trust volunteeers celebrate end of day's work
Grand Canyon Trust volunteers from Northeastern University celebrate end of hard day's work
Rockslide Brew Pub, Main Street Grand Junction
Grand Junction Colorado Rockslide brewery boys hefting hops upstairs
Bridling
A wrangler at Triangle X Ranch in Jackson Hole is reaching to get the bridle on one of the ranch's horses.
Wild Bighorn
A wild bighorn sheep fights through deep snow in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon.
weathered wooden western wagon wheel
This wagon wheel has clearly seen many long, hard days under the great western sun. Big Bend National Park, Texas.
hello goat!
A colored Angora goat purposed for fiber production. I now own this goat but purchased her from an ag producer in Pinedale, WY.
Firefighter - New Mexico
This image was taken on a prescribed fire on the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico
The topic: There are many ways to work hard in the West's landscapes and communities. Submit your image(s) of living or inanimate objects that are hard at work in the American West.
About submitting images: Entrants may submit up to three (3) photos for each photo contest, in JPEG, PNG and GIF file formats only; each image submitted may be no larger than 2 megabytes in size.
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