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"Where the plains rise up to meet the mountains of Glacier National Park is a region known as the Two Medicine Country. Wild, vast, harsh and beautiful, it is a place of summer frost and hard wind, where winter snows came early and leave late. It is a place perfect for bison.
"This herd on a private ranch just east of Glacier, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, was lazing and grazing in the rare warmth of an August afternoon. The calves galloped loose-limbed over the short-grass prairie (but not too far from mom), and the bulls strode purposefully with a restrained power that you just knew could flip a truck or have them charging full out at 30 mph.
"I look at this herd and then multiply its number in my mind by thousands to imagine how this Two Medicine Country was meant to be."
Glenn Oakley is a landscape and lifestyle photographer based in Boise, Idaho. His work is widely published in such magazines as Outside, Smithsonian and Sunset, as well as in national advertising campaigns. Glenn recently collaborated on a book, Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes: Great Sand Dunes and the Wetlands of the San Luis Valley, with writer Susan Tweit for the University of Arizona Press, due out in autumn of 2005.
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