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Across the American West land ownership and land use is always a complicated issue. This scene illustrates that very well. The photograph is taken from part of Dinosaur National Monument's Harper's Corner road, but the area where the gorge is and the open slope beyond that is Bureau of Land Management land, which is leased by a rancher. Then beyond that, the high land further to the east is again part of Dinosaur National Monument. If you look closely you will find a group of about six cattle at the center of the grazing land at the center of the photo. You may wonder where the cattle get water in this setting. There is in fact a stock pond or "tank" as they are called locally in the fold of the land to the right of the cows.

Joshua House has been described as a photographer, a conservationist, a historian, and an adventurer. Having traveled and worked extensively across the country he is currently concentrating his photographic work in Eastern Texas, centered on Houston. His past creative work has included research, writing, and photography for the Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Illinois, Homestead National Monument of America in Nebraska, and Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. As a conservationist he has worked with the US Army Corps of Engineers, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the National Park Service. His historical work has had several focuses, from Abraham Lincoln�s life in...