RED DESERT, WYOMING
The wide open spaces of the Red Desert in South Central Wyoming are vast and complex. Migrating pronghorn, booming sage grouse and wild horses are part of the varied landscape that includes Killpecker sand dunes, Adobe Town, badlands and extensive natural gas drilling.
Mormon and pony express trail marker in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert035)
Elk herd running in Wyoming's Red Desert. (050701-2270)
Drill rigs in Jonah gas fields near Pinedale, WY, Red Desert. (080515-0692)
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) herd squeezing under fence blocking migration route near Pinedale, Wyoming in the Red Desert. (Pronghorn054)
Greater sage grouse displaying on lek in Wyoming's Red Desert. (Grouse046)
Adobe town rock formations in Red Desert of southern Wyoming. (RedDesert0306)
Wild horses on ridge in Wyoming's Red Desert. (110615-3843)
Gas field with waste pits and drill pads near Pinedale, Wyoming. (080515-0677)
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) herd under cumulus cloud in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert034)
Jonah gas field in Red Desert, Wyoming. (080515-9702)
A line of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) follow their fall migration route in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert004)
Wyoming's Red Desert provides winter habitat for large numbers of pronghorn. (Antilocapra americana). (Pronghorn041)
Windswept sand of Killpecker Dunes in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert011)
Swainson's hawk chicks in nest, Red Desert, Wyoming. (050629-2063)
Aerial of Pinedale anticline, The Mesa, Wyoming, Wind River Basin. (RedDesert022)
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) running. (050707-2617)
Greater sage grouse displaying on lek in Wyoming's Red Desert. (Grouse3651)
McCown's longspur in breeding plumage, shortgrass prairie in the Red Desert of Wyoming. (110613-1939)
Aerial near Burma Road, Red Desert, Wyoming. (RedDesert033)
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) migrating in Wyoming's Red Desert encounter a fence barrier. (RedDesert021)
Aerial of gas drilling area near Pinedale, Wyoming. (RedDesert9826)
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) nursery in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert030)
Wild horses backlit with moon rise, Red Desert, Wyoming. (110615-3787)
Aerial of Jonah oil and gas fields, Red Desert. (RedDesert001)
A pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) herd feeds along a hillside during a Wyoming winter in the Red Desert. (Pronghorn039)
Wild horse at sunrise in the Red Desert of Wyoming. (080927-3424)
A bachelor herd of bull elk (Cervus elaphus) run across the sagebrush in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert020)
RED DESERT ROANS
Herd of wild mustangs. (060513-3656)
Herd of wild mustangs. (060513-3656)
Wild horse (Equus caballus) looking over the canyon. (RedDesert024)
Drill rigs near Pindeale, Wyoming in the Red Desert. Wind River range in background. (080515-9660)
Wild horses drinking at temporary waterhole in Wyoming's Red Desert. (110615-3827)
Horse (Equus caballus) petroglyph, Red Desert, Wyoming. (RedDesert025)
Swainson's hawk chicks in nest built on drilling structure, Red Desert, Wyoming. (050701-2252)
An unusual year of above average rainfall produced colorful spring bloom in Wyoming's Red Desert. (050702-2480)
Pronghorn doe and fawns (Antilocapra americana) in nursery herd, Wyoming. (Pronghorn023)
Gas drilling rigs in Jonah gas fields near Pinedale, Wyoming in the Red Desert. (081130-9766)
Adobe town in Wyoming's Red Desert. (050715-3313)
A herd of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) graze near a gas drilling rig in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert003)
Ferruginous hawk nestlings in nest, Wyoming's Red Desert. (Raptor4204)
Approaching dust storm at sunset in Wyoming's Red Desert. (050702-2452)
Moose (Alces alces) walking past gas drilling site in Wyoming's Red Desert during winter. (RedDesert019)
Adobe Town features many extraordinary formations of weathered rock in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert018)
Boar's Tusk behind power lines. (RedDesert028)
Adobe town in Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert014)
Killpecker Dunes with the Boar's Tusk in the distance. Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert010)
Skull Creek Rim in the southern section of Wyoming's Red Desert. (RedDesert017)
