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Land use in the US West.
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State/County Parks + Forests.
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State/County Parks + Forests.
Heron Marychild
Photo Date:
08/03/2013
Smith Rock State Park, Oregon.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
05/04/2008
Coastal redwoods, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
06/06/2012
South Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
07/23/2013
LaPine State Park, Oregon.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
07/23/2013
"Big Tree" ponderosa pine, LaPine State Park, Oregon.
Lisa Holmes
Photo Date:
12/20/2013
Saddle Mountain State Park, Oregon.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
06/06/2013
Fort Columbia Sate Park, Washington.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
10/11/2013
Cottonwood Canyon State Park, Oregon.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
07/05/2012
Oregon coast line from Neahkahnie Mountian, Oswald West State Park.
Jeremy Forrest
Photo Date:
12/21/2012
White River Falls State Park, Oregon.
Shane Kucera
Photo Date:
07/10/2010
Lime Kiln Point State Park, Washington.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
06/07/2013
Castle Crags State Park, California.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
07/24/2012
Ecola State Park, Oregon.
Andrew Stohner
Photo Date:
09/01/2013
Castle Rock State Park, Idaho.
Aron Bosworth
Photo Date:
11/09/2013
South Yuba River State Park, California.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
07/10/2016
Mountain biker riding the trails at Lory State Park in Colorado.
Emily Pennington
Photo Date:
03/26/2017
Barrel cacti blooming with Indianhead Peak towering in the background in Anza-Borrego State Park.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
07/25/2006
View from the top of Hard Rock Trail at Independence Mine State Historic Park.
Stephanie Windschill
Photo Date:
05/15/2017
A rainbow over High Falls in Grand Portage State Park, Minnesota.
Tara Schatz
Photo Date:
04/10/2017
Early morning at the beach in Lake Shaftsbury State Park, Vermont.
Stephanie Keene
Photo Date:
03/26/2017
Find an open bench at Fort Rock and soak in the mountain views at Headwaters of the Missouri State Park in Montana.
Nick Catania
Photo Date:
03/10/2017
Staatsburgh State Historic Site (Mills Mansion) in New York's Mills Norrie State Park.
Nick Catania
Photo Date:
02/19/2017
The Hudson River and the Mid-Hudson Bridge from Franny Reese State Park in New York.
Kevin Murray
Photo Date:
10/08/2016
Old Mill ruins in Georgia's Sweetwater Creek State Park.
Eric Adsit
Photo Date:
12/13/2015
Big Falls State Park, Vermont.
Shaun Hunter
Photo Date:
05/02/2016
Vast night skies at the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada.
Denis LeBlanc
Photo Date:
09/17/2015
Sylvan Lake day use and campground in Sylvan Lake State Park, Colorado.
Matthew Durrant
Photo Date:
11/25/2015
Bighorn sheep in Antelope Island State Park, Utah.
Denis LeBlanc
Photo Date:
03/14/2015
For those fortunate enough to camp in Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park, the reward might be a sunrise like this one.
Kat Dierickx
Photo Date:
04/26/2014
Palouse Falls State Park.
Tyson Gillard
Photo Date:
05/24/2016
Pa'iloa "Black Sand" Beach in Wai'ānapanapa State Park.
Travis Tyler
Photo Date:
11/07/2016
South Dakota's take on Tibetan prayer flags at the Black Elk Peak summit in Custer State Park, South Dakota.
Patrick Mueller
Photo Date:
10/23/2015
McWay Falls in California's Julia Pheiffer Burns State Park.