Man's Hand on the Landscape (2)

All too often we read about or see first-hand the destruction of wild spaces and habitat as a result of oil spills, acid rain, logging, mining, and pollution; all acts of mankind. It's easy to forget man is part of nature too, and is capable of restoration and preservation of beautiful places. The pictures in this gallery represent the hand of man on the landscape. Sometimes this is as simple as an old fence along the edge of a woods, or a well-worn path through the trees. Whether "improvements" or not, often the beauty of these signs of man can't be denied.

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Duck Road runs along the northern edge of the Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge near Charlo, Montana.

Rental boats stored at the end of the day in Apgar, at Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park.

Rental boats reflected in Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park shortly after a September sunrise.

Morning light on a rowboat in Apgar, on Glacier National Park's Lake McDonald.

Early sun and "God beams" through the trees and fog on a trailhead near the Lake McDonald Lodge.

A few inches of snow on a aging wood fence near our home in northwest Montana.