Photography — Michael Faist

Photography

I take pictures of public lands, and the plants, animals, and people found there.

Sometimes, they even pay me!

Ancestral Lands Corps Crew planting in Joshua Tree, CA.

Ancestral Lands Corps Crew planting in Joshua Tree, CA.

A calypso orchid on the forest floor.

A triumphant climber. Glacier, MT.

Ancestral Lands Corps Crew planting in Joshua Tree, CA.

A dramatic spring sunset over Glacier's western edge.

Precatious geology, beautiful light. Canyonlands, UT.

A grizzly bear with frosted tips foraging for flower bulbs.

Me, in Jasper National Park.

Two photographers taking panoramas.

A rare snowstorm in the Mojave. Joshua Tree, CA.

A hiker in the high country. Glacier, MT.

Top down view of a bus stop. Zion, UT.

A long-abandoned Mine in Glacier National Park, now gated off for the sake of roosting bats.

A mine cart left to rust in a century-old mine shaft in the northern rockies.

A rare snowstorm in the Mojave. Joshua Tree, CA.

The "barber pole" tree in Joshua Tree, CA.

Hidden Lake, Mt. Reynolds, and Sperry Glacier.

An unlucky rodent's final resting place, stuck in the spines of a cholla cactus.

The rocky mountain front transitioning to the Blackfeet Reservation.

Joshua trees can continue growing even after falling down.

The rocky mountain front transitioning to the Blackfeet Reservation.

Joshua Trees and mojave yuccas come in all shapes and sizes.

Transition to Joshua Tree's high elevation Pinyon-Juniper Forest Ecosystem.

Mountain goats shed their winter guard hairs in the summer time to stay cool.

Joshua Tree's high elevation Pinyon-Juniper Forest Ecosystem.

Transition between Joshua Tree's mojave desert and high elevation Pinyon-Juniper Forest Ecosystems.

The plumage of a roadrunner helps it to camouflage with the shady, sun-streaked spaces beneath shrubs in the desert.

Chuckwallas, the largest lizards of the mojave, are known to wedge themselves in cracks and puff themselves up, making it difficult for predators to remove them.

A grizzly takes a break from eating thimbleberries to investigate passing hikers.

2 million bighorns used to roam the desert southwest, but today, they're a rare sight in canyon country.

White-tailed Ptarmigan are rare, and lives at higher elevations than any other bird. This one's plumage is transitioning from brown (summer) to white (winter)

A rare fossilized leaf from the late eocene in Glacier.

A dramatic sunset in a mountain meadow in Glacier.

Rare fossilized molluscs from the late eocene in Glacier.

A buzz of activity watching Kiluea erupt.

The chairlift at Whitefish Mountain Resort—one of the first Whitebark Pine friendly ski resorts in the nation.

Planting Whitebark Pine Seedlings at whitefish mountain resort.

Planting Whitebark Pine Seedlings at whitefish mountain resort.

Planting Whitebark Pine Seedlings at whitefish mountain resort.

Planting Whitebark Pine Seedlings at whitefish mountain resort.

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Swiftcurrent Lookout perched on a distant, stormw-swept mountain.

Signs of ancestral puebloan life at Bandalier National Monument, NM.

Signs of ancestral puebloan life at Bandalier National Monument, NM.

The tiny cones of a Giant Sequioa, Yosemite, CA.

A shipwreck at Point Reyes, CA.

Shadows cast on America's tallest dunes—Great Sand Dunes, CO.

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Petrified Forest NPS

Petrified Forest NPS

Artists In Residence Brad Enstein, Kyle Neimer, and their puppet.

Striation at the edge of a glacier

Fall colors highlight the deciduous shrubs that fill in avalanche paths in the northern rockies.

Video / Animation

Graphic Design / Physical Exhibits