High on the edge of Hells Canyon in Oregon’s northeast corner, the 160,000-acre Zumwalt Prairie is the largest remaining fescue-dominated bunchgrass prairie in North America.  In 2000, the Nature Conservency purchased 26,920 acres of it, their largest-ever single purchase of land in Oregon.  In 2002, I was commissioned to photograph it.
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie
Zumwalt Prairie