Week 6-2--6-8-12 - Clayton, ID and Butte, MT:
A honeybee lands on poppies with the Lemhi Range beyond
Home on the Range, antelope and all
Humbug Spires at sundown
More snow in June, Butte MT
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Week 6-9--6-15-12 - Clayton, ID and Butte, MT:
Arrowleaf balsamroots galore outside Clayton, ID
Elk in the Lemhi Range
Big Hole Valley, MT
Along the Jefferson River, MT
One of many aspen stands in decline in the West due to lack of fire and disturbance on the landscape
Week 6-16--6-22-12 - Yellowstone NP, WY and Butte, MT:
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone, WY
Yellowstone Lake
Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
Pony, MT
A woodpecker peaks out in a forest that was burned the next week in a wildfire
Week 6-23--6-29-12 - Deerlodge and Butte, MT:
Lake at the base of Mt Powell
Alpine flowers above tree line on Mt Powell
Five of eight lakes visible from the Mt Powell summit, 10,168 ft
An abandoned root cellar
The front range of MT
Elk cows and calves near Augusta, MT
Week 6-30--7-6-12 - Choteau, MT, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and Butte, MT:
Bear paw, a flower that thrives in disturbed area like this scorched lodgepole forest
June columbines atop Mt Wright in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, 8,875ft with one of the best 360 views in the Northern Rockies
Corrall Fire, on the edge of Montana's capital Helena
Sap drips from a scorched ponderosa pine and beads on the ground below
Week 7-7--7-13-12 - Bitterroot Range and Butte, MT:
A wildfire (left) and a thunderstorm (right) seen from atop Trapper Peak, tallest mountain in the Bitterroots at 10,157ft
Pig cloud (left) climbing the mountains outside Dillon, MT
Douglas fir beetle galleries with little white larvae thriving inside
Kosher gospel at the Montana Folk Festival, Butte MT
