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.

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

Flow

Last Frontier