The Important Places by Forest Woodward

THE IMPORTANT PLACES. from gnarly bay on Vimeo.

DamNation

Where the Buffalo Roam

Took this photo in the Black Hills of South Dakota last week.

Chubby prairie dog. Black Hills, SD.

Black Hills, Chippy

Herd chillin' in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND.

North Dakota natural gas boom. Drill baby drill.

Wild horse!

This guy was standing near a herd in Theodore Roosevelt National Park on the western edge of North Dakota. Accidentally took photo with camera on a night setting. I like the contrast though.

Pronghorn

WE ARE CONNECTED, WE ARE POWERFUL!

From Modern Hiker. First mentioned to me by Charlie Malone of Matter Daily today! The video brought tears to my eyes.

"In 2008, when the George W. Bush administration was on its way out the door, it decided to launch one final giveaway to oil and gas companies by leasing hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Utah overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Frustrated opponents protested outside the BLM building in Salt Lake City while the auction was being held in December of ’08, but Tim DeChristopher, a 27 year old University of Utah economics student, took action.

DeChristopher went into the auction as a bidder, and despite not having any money, successfully bid on 148,598 acres of land for over $7 million. When he wasn’t able to win a bid, he was able to drive up the costs of leases for oil and gas companies. By the time the paperwork was done on the land DeChristopher successfully bid on, a new administration was in office – one that agreed most of the land up for sale should never have been put up for auction in the first place."

Read the rest of the story here.