Sage Spirit & The American West

ILCP Fellow Dave Showalter on making a difference with a camera and a focused mission

Text & Photography By Dave Showalter

Updated October 19, 2017

Ferrying my third load across rolling, unbroken sagebrush hills to a portable blind that's a speck in an immense landscape, I'm thinking of how rare, how ephemeral these moments are—that so few places like this remain.

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Originally Published August 3, 2015

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