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Quotation by Henry David Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

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I wish to dedicate this photomanipulation to Mark Dakin of Lone Wolf Photography for his generous support to both me and many other aspiring and professional artists on DA. Please visit his DA site lonewolfphotography.deviantart… to view the extensive range of his wonderful photography! Many thanks, Mark, for your support and for your permission to use the photo of you and your four-legged Appaloosa friend, Concho, in my manipulation!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since my photo manipulations are created using stock photographs, and stock providers each have their own specific rules for how and where their stock can be used, I am unable to provide others with permission to use all or parts of my pictures for derivative works or commercial purposes. Please check the provided links below for access to the original stock photos should you wish to use them. Thanks!

Credit and appreciation goes to the following individuals for the use of their photos:

- Horse and Rider lonewolfphotography.deviantart… Not stock - Permission required for use

- Bull Buffalo little-stock.deviantart.com/ar… No Commercial Use Allowed

Own photograph - Sky and clouds over Grand Mesa, Colorado

Flickr Commons - Prairie Dog www.flickr.com/photos/chadh-fl… Photographer: chadh

Flickr Commons - California Quail www.flickr.com/photos/teddyllo… Photographer: Teddy Llovet

Flickr Commons - Foreground (Horse Thief Trail, Taos, New Mexico) www.flickr.com/photos/fancycan… Photographer: Jeremy Ridge

Flickr Creative Commons – Attribution 2.0 Generic License creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) - Bison Cow and Calf commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… Photographer: Achtenberg, Jesse

This image is the work of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Copyright Rules: www.fws.gov/faq/imagefaq.html

The following information was gleaned from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_bi…

The American Bison (Bison bison) is most commonly known as a buffalo, the name given to them in the 1600’s by French fur trappers. Bison once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds. They can reach up to 2 meters (6.6 ft) tall and weigh up to1,000 kilograms (2,205 lb). Both sexes have short, curved horns. Juveniles are lighter in color for the first three months of life. One very rare condition is the white buffalo, where the calf turns entirely white. White bison are considered sacred by many Native Americans. Bison roll in shallow depressions in the soil called wallows, covering themselves with dust or mud.

Bison were hunted almost to extinction for their skins and were reduced from millions to a few hundred by the mid-1880s. The US Army actively endorsed the wholesale slaughter of bison herds. The US Federal government promoted bison hunting to allow ranchers to range their cattle without competition from other bovines, but primarily to weaken the North American Indian population by removing their main food source and to pressure them onto the reservations. Without the bison, native people of the plains were forced to leave the land or starve to death. The bison were ultimately saved from extinction through privately owned herds.

Bison are among the most dangerous animals encountered by visitors to the various U.S. and Canadian National Parks, especially Yellowstone National Park. Although they are not carnivorous, they will attack humans if provoked. They appear slow because of their lethargic movements, but they can easily outrun humans—they have been observed running as fast as 35 miles per hour (56.3 km/h). Between 1978 and 1992, nearly five times as many people in Yellowstone National Park were killed or injured by bison as by bears (12 by bears, 56 by bison). Bison also have the unexpected agility, given the animal's size and body structure, to leap over a standard barbed-wire fence.

The only continuously wild bison herd in the United States resides within Yellowstone National Park. Numbering between 3,000 and 3,500, this herd is descended from a remnant population of 23 individual mountain bison that survived the mass slaughter of the 1800s by hiding out in the Pelican Valley of Yellowstone Park.

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Quotation by Henry David Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

* * * *

I wish to dedicate this photomanipulation to Mark Dakin of Lone Wolf Photography for his generous support to both me and many other aspiring and professional artists on DA. Please visit his DA site lonewolfphotography.deviantart… to view the extensive range of his wonderful photography! Many thanks, Mark, for your support and for your permission to use the photo of you and your four-legged Appaloosa friend, Concho, in my manipulation!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since my photo manipulations are created using stock photographs, and stock providers each have their own specific rules for how and where their stock can be used, I am unable to provide others with permission to use all or parts of my pictures for derivative works or commercial purposes. Please check the provided links below for access to the original stock photos should you wish to use them. Thanks!

Credit and appreciation goes to the following individuals for the use of their photos:

- Horse and Rider lonewolfphotography.deviantart… Not stock - Permission required for use

- Bull Buffalo little-stock.deviantart.com/ar… No Commercial Use Allowed

Own photograph - Sky and clouds over Grand Mesa, Colorado

Flickr Commons - Prairie Dog www.flickr.com/photos/chadh-fl… Photographer: chadh

Flickr Commons - California Quail www.flickr.com/photos/teddyllo… Photographer: Teddy Llovet

Flickr Commons - Foreground (Horse Thief Trail, Taos, New Mexico) www.flickr.com/photos/fancycan… Photographer: Jeremy Ridge

Flickr Creative Commons – Attribution 2.0 Generic License creativecommons.org/licenses/b…

Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) - Bison Cow and Calf commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… Photographer: Achtenberg, Jesse

This image is the work of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Copyright Rules: www.fws.gov/faq/imagefaq.html

The following information was gleaned from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_bi…

The American Bison (Bison bison) is most commonly known as a buffalo, the name given to them in the 1600’s by French fur trappers. Bison once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds. They can reach up to 2 meters (6.6 ft) tall and weigh up to1,000 kilograms (2,205 lb). Both sexes have short, curved horns. Juveniles are lighter in color for the first three months of life. One very rare condition is the white buffalo, where the calf turns entirely white. White bison are considered sacred by many Native Americans. Bison roll in shallow depressions in the soil called wallows, covering themselves with dust or mud.

Bison were hunted almost to extinction for their skins and were reduced from millions to a few hundred by the mid-1880s. The US Army actively endorsed the wholesale slaughter of bison herds. The US Federal government promoted bison hunting to allow ranchers to range their cattle without competition from other bovines, but primarily to weaken the North American Indian population by removing their main food source and to pressure them onto the reservations. Without the bison, native people of the plains were forced to leave the land or starve to death. The bison were ultimately saved from extinction through privately owned herds.

Bison are among the most dangerous animals encountered by visitors to the various U.S. and Canadian National Parks, especially Yellowstone National Park. Although they are not carnivorous, they will attack humans if provoked. They appear slow because of their lethargic movements, but they can easily outrun humans—they have been observed running as fast as 35 miles per hour (56.3 km/h). Between 1978 and 1992, nearly five times as many people in Yellowstone National Park were killed or injured by bison as by bears (12 by bears, 56 by bison). Bison also have the unexpected agility, given the animal's size and body structure, to leap over a standard barbed-wire fence.

The only continuously wild bison herd in the United States resides within Yellowstone National Park. Numbering between 3,000 and 3,500, this herd is descended from a remnant population of 23 individual mountain bison that survived the mass slaughter of the 1800s by hiding out in the Pelican Valley of Yellowstone Park.