Frosted Guardian Frame Color:Oak the curve of a surfboard

the curve of a surfboard fin in the right foreground for scale

planted in long rows by the city in the early twentieth century

palm-lined bluff behind

A single palm against an overcast Santa Monica sky

dropping a thousand feet

Frosted Guardian Frame Color:Oak the curve of a surfboardYellowstone's bison are the only continuously wild population in the lower 48 the herd never went extinct on the park's plateau the way it did everywhere else when the species was hunted to under a thousand animals nationally in the 1880s. The current Yellowstone herd is around 4,500. Tom shoots one in a winter storm, frost on the head and shoulders, breath visible, snow blurring against a flat grey sky.