Welcome to Wildland Scenes. If you've been here before, click on either graphic above to go directly to the trailhead. If this is your first visit, may I tell you a little about what to expect?

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Wilderness Photography

Scenic photography, landscape photography, nature photography, these scenes can be described in many ways. Most are well away from roads, at places reached only by foot and which are at their best when approached this way. The places you’ll see here are:

San Gorgonio

The San Gorgonio Wilderness, in Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, is a highly popular and, therefore, important National Forest wilderness.

Bridger Wilderness in the Wind River Range

This area, along the Continental Divide in Wyoming, is classic alpine in the Land of Big Sky.

Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness (Idaho Primitive Area)

At 2,366,757 acres—larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined—this is the largest Forest Service Wilderness. At the time these photographs were taken (1963), it was the Idaho Primitive Area.

Caribou Wilderness Near Lassen Volcanic National Park

A quiet, introspective place near geologically recent violence.

Grand Canyon and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Two examples of southwest desert. Scenes from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and Bright Angel Canyon within it. Also some scenes of the Sonoran Desert from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Escalante River

A remarkable area in southeastern Utah, the watershed of this river cuts into Navajo sandstone and is rich with natural arches and more. Much of what was here has been submerged under Lake Powell, the Glen Canyon Dam reservoir. These photographs were taken before the waters rose, and you will see, for example, the Cathedral In the Desert as it no longer is.

Sierra Nevada

John Muir’s “Range of Light” contains some of the best-loved mountain scenery anywhere. Here is the world-famous beauty of Yosemite Valley as well as spectacular granite-cradled lakes above the timberline and everything in between.

Mariposa Grove

In the southwest of Yosemite National Park is this storied grove of Sequoia Gigantea; once the location of history’s most photographed tree, the Wawona tunnel tree. But you won’t see it here. These scenes are of things more profound.

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