Hallowed Ground
This is the front lines of conservation photography where massive industrial scale projects threaten irreplaceable gems. Bristol Bay’s irreplaceable salmon runs to the Arctic Plain’s untouched wildness; the last bull trout and wild steelhead; Montana’s Smith River and our threatened wild Cutthroat trout. Places and species that inspire and humble, always dark clouds on the horizon.
North America's last great ungulate migration; caribou on the Arctic Plain
Wild and remote, from the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean; alpenglow
Ice age beast with a coat to beat the cold; the muskox
Isolated and rugged, Westslope Cutthroat survive where others don't
Outrageously colored arctic Dolly Varden matching the tundra and sunsets
Yellowstone's keystone piscatorial species; an anchor for all its predators; the Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout
Apex predator of the north country; one of the few remaining Bull Trout plies the last remaining wild rivers
Fall steelhead find respite in a cold water tributary; ocean vagabonding nomads pushed to the brink of extinction
Olympic National Park; the last best salmon habitat in the lower 48
Last of the genetically pure wild steelhead with one goal in mind: return to its place of birth giving its progeny a chance to do the same
Wildcountry Grayling
Montana's incomparable high plains Smith River Canyon
A chasm carved over eternity by snowmelt and springs wild flows
The last great functioning salmon run on earth; great walls of sockeye salmon infuse life into Bristol Bay's incomparable ecosystem
Subsistence villages survive by the annual return of the salmon as they have for eons
An untouched salmon ecosystem; wild, free, and forever sustainable
Peak wilderness equals peak predators.
Relegated to less that 5% of their native range. Yellowstone Cutthroat.
Relegated to less that 5% of their native range. Westslope Cuttroat.
Bristol Bay's iconic sockeye run. No Pebble Mine.
Olympic national Park steelhead. They still survive.
High country cutts.
Bristol Bay mouse eater
3 species. Pinks, chum, and sockeye. Bristol Bay, Alaska
Wild Steelhead, Umpqua River, Oregon
Steelhead sequence, Sol Duc River, Washington
that is a hard no
Dillingham, Alaska
just visiting
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Last light Sockeye, Nushagak River, Alaska
Subsistence catch
Bristol Bay, Alaska
Wood Tik Chik State Park
Wood Tik Chik State Park
King Salmon native village, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Not our decision to make.
Headwaters, Bristol Bay, Alaska
The cleanup crew.
ANWR light show.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Dolly Varden in fall.
doing it all on a budget, thanks all
Spring creek side channel, Arctic National Wildlife Regie, Alaska.
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The most epic fish?
Caribou country, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
Slow Shutter Dollies, ANWR
North Slope Grizzlies
Into the Ice agon On Alaska's North Slope
Creature from the Arctic Ocean into a river
Big Fall Northern Lights
Smith River, Montana
Deadfall Great Gray
Smith River canyon under the gun
Wild place means wild things
inky water Cutthroat apears from the depth, 11,000 feet Wyoming
Big Hole River Grayling
The wending rivers of Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Skykomish River natives. Sockeye, Steelhead, Coho