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Icon lowell mountainThe American bison has long been a symbol of the West. It's also the subject of a cautionary tale of greed and, more recently, a conservation success story. When Lewis and Clark explored the Missouri River, there were approximately 20 million bison in North America. Fast forward less than one hundred years and they were reduced to a single, small herd living in present day Yellowstone National Park. Brought to the doorstep of extinction through

and a long drive in the very early morning hours of an April night to capture the scene I wanted

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The Rocky Mountain twilight is brief

arnica blossoms

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Madagascar's day-flying sunset moth

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Through conservation - and luck - the bison has made a come back with herds once again roaming across portions of their native lands

signaling that she has become an older river

It was full of slush ice

narrower space

five mature bull bison (four in the foreground and one in the background) spend a quiet winter afternoon