PHOTOGRAPHY BY FORREST ARMKE

As the manager of the Ford Ranch in Brady, Texas, Forrest Armke is a leader in the ranching industry in Texas and an influential voice for resource conservation and the restoration of wildlife habitats and populations.

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS

• ⋅ Feral hogs pound out a path through broomweed
• ⋅ Ducks and wild turkeys take advantage of a shallow playa on Gyp Springs Ranch
• ⋅ Aerial view of the Double Mountain from Gyp Springs Ranch
• ⋅ Aerial view of a large playa on Gyp Springs Ranch
• ⋅ Wild turkeys in flight on Gyp Springs Ranch
• ⋅ A Whitetail demonstrates agility and power in negotiating the thick undergrowth of a canyon watershed
• ⋅ Silhouetted in the afternoon sun, a Whitetail bounds through the landscape of Gyp Springs Ranch
• ⋅ Weather-beaten mesa on Gyp Springs Ranch strikes a dramatic pose against a backdrop of vast tablelands and rugged cliffs
• ⋅ Colorful and rugged terrain of a tableland mesa provides an archetypal image of a western badland on Gyp Springs Ranch
• ⋅ A winding gulch on Gyp Springs Ranch
• ⋅ MigratIing ducks swim a playa on Mountain View Ranch
• ⋅ One of the canyon creeks on Mountain View Ranch that flow into the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ Aerial view of Double Mountain from Mountain View Ranch
• ⋅ Wide-racked Whitetail strikes an elegant pose as it leaps through a clearing on Royston Ranch
• ⋅ Flashing its signature white tail, a young deer gallops through Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Whitetail gracefully moving up a ravine blends inconspicously into the thick undergrowth of dried tree branches and grasses
• ⋅ Thickets of dormant Mesquites look like islands in a sea of grasslands
• ⋅ Whitetail adolescent scampers quickly through a gnarled thicket of Mesquite limbs and dead undergrowth
• ⋅ Wide-racked Whitetail vaults up a canyon slope in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Large Whitetail manuveurs through a open field along Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Dense stand of Mesquites and Cedars contrast sharply with jagged terrain of erosion-carved canyon walls
• ⋅ Shallow creek glistens in late afternoon sun along a gully in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ WIde-rack Mule deer gallops through canyon floor among Cholla and Cedars
• ⋅ Powerful Whitetail leaps effortlessly through a tangled grove of Mesquites
• ⋅ Wild hog darts through a thicket in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ A stout wild hog trots through Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Dry creek bed in Impossible Canyon glistens in the sunlight
• ⋅ Evergreen cedars and tow-colored grasses swirlling in the wind
• ⋅ Wild hog bolts through a field of Big Bluestem
• ⋅ Aerial view of Impossible Canyon ravines
• ⋅ The long shadows of a winter afternoon highlight the crevices and cliffs of Impossible Canyon