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One of our favorite spots at Theodore Roosevelt National Park: a place called Buck Hill. It's hard to beat the view from the top.
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We feel compelled to photograph each other at the modest summit (There really aren't any mountains in North Dakota).
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The kids love to shelter under a ledge and pretend they're hunter/gatherers, looking for dinner, building a fire, flensing skins, perhaps.
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Dinner is everywhere--mule deer are plentiful.
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It's a great place for wildlife photography. You're largely ignored, and the tableaux are stunning.
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The biggest bull bison are often solitary, like this one. Imagine yourself on that winding road, passing from vision to vision. That's TRNP, at dusk in June.
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A spotted towhee rasps out its song against the badland backdrop.
We round a corner to find a mother prairie dog and her three exclamation point babies!!!
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They wondered why this woman was groaning...
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never realizing that they and their tiny hands might be the cause
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Three perfect little sod poodles in the slanting light of an endless June evening.
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