"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...

Longtime professional photographer Russell Lamb offers a perspective on the Wyoming landscape. Featuring vivid images from Yellowstone, Devils Tower, and the Grand Tetons, Wyoming captures the heart of Western heritage.

Anyone who has traveled in any part of a somewhat vague area that is called the Red Desert of Southwest Wyoming, has devoloped both mental and emotional images about what they experienced. The discussion between people who have been there always seem to produce a colorful patchwork quilt of what region has to offer and usually it includes some mentions of scientific discoveries, observations of wildlife, geology, history, and adventure. The photos...

"Before the 1970s few women were employed by the U.S. Forest Service. During the 1960s and 70s new environmental and fair employment laws meant that the agency began to hire talented women in professional careers. For the first time women began working as wildlife biologists, geologists, soil scientists, and fisheries biologists for the Forest Service. A Hunger for High Country is the story of one of these women. Set in the national forests surrounding...