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"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,...
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Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death—to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline. The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers. Hutto's job is to find out why.
For months at a time, he follows the bighorn herds, meets mountain lions and bears,
10) Wyoming
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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.
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c2010
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The Red Desert of Wyoming is one of America's wildest and most threateded landscapes with ancient rituals like the migration of pronghorn antelope amid the remnants of pioneer trails and Indian encampments. Visit fabled landscapes like th Boar's Tusk, Adobe Town, and the Ferris Dunes through spectacular photographs accompanied by snippets of the Old West in the form of tales, lore, and cowboy poetry. It's a journey across the last of the open range...
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[2014]
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"Aware that her youth is slipping by, Mary Beth Baptiste decides to escape her lackluster, suburban life in coastal Massachusetts to pursue her lifelong dream of being a Rocky Mountain woodswoman. To the horror of her traditional, ethnic family, she divorces her husband of fifteen years, dusts off her wildlife biology degree, and flees to Moose, Wyoming for a job at Grand Teton National Park. In these rugged mountains, unexpected lessons from nature...
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c2012
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A historical memoir that spans the twentieth century and recapitulates the life of a daughter of Italian immigrants who came to Wyoming to make a new life. From her cabin in the Hoback Basin, Florence Rose Krall Shepard retraces the contours of her long life through the lens of the seasons that call up memories. From the landscape of childhood on a sheep ranch during the Great Depression, through schooling in a one-room school to universities, marriages...
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2013.
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The essential nature guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks was written by a local wildlife biologist and eco-tour guide. More than 1.200 color photographs with concise descriptions reveal the richness of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This is the definitive field identification guide to the region's rocks, minerals, geysers, waterfalls, mushrooms, trees. wildflowers, insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, mammals, tracks and...
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c2014
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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...
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1993
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Thoreau joked that he was a "self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms, " never dreaming that such a need might exist. But such is the author's work and that of his various helpers, from ski bums to shortstops. They travel the alpine wilderness at all seasons by touring skis, snowshoes, pack llamas, float-tubes, and a tiny but dependable raft. The remote mountain beauty, "where thoughts stretch for miles and days, " would be enough, but...
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2013
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The DISCOVER THE WILD educational series was developed to enable students to not only learn more about wildlife and their environments in a classroom setting, but also see them up close and study them on experiential field trips into the wild. The program is designed to make students and others more aware of the natural world and connect them to nature by helping them to better understand its interrelationships. And it has the endorsement of nine,...
