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Wild West - America's Great FrontierThe High CountryIn pictures...

Discover the amazing ways that nature survives in an extremely testing land.

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Ghost town in the Bodie Hills, Mono County, California, United States

While the Gold Rush lasted, the town of Bodie boomed with 30 mines and 65 saloons.

  • During the rut, bison bulls (Bison bison) battle one another for access to receptive females.
  • Each spring, cattle from the 3Bar ranch in California are moved 70 miles from foothills up into meadows of the High Sierra
  • The American pika (Ochotona princeps) is a high altitude relative of the rabbit and is found all across the High Country.
  • A female Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) feeding from a snow plant (Sarcoides sanguinea)
  • Acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorous) work in extended families to store thousands of acorns each year.
  • Mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) are true high country specialists found only in North America.
  • A river otter (Lontra canadensis) enjoys a dinner of cutthroat trout (Onhorhynchus clarki)
  • Giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) are the biggest trees by volume on the planet
  • Only about 1,500 grizzly bears (Ursus horribilis) are left in the lower 48 states of the USA
  • Cowboy culture developed from the vaquero traditions of northern Mexico
  • The granite cliffs of the Yosemite Valley in California’s Sierra Nevada range rise vertically 3,000 feet from the valley floor
  • Ghost town in the Bodie Hills, Mono County, California, United States

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