I live in Iowa, the heart of the tallgrass prairie and Midwest. Iowa, the most-altered (i.e., least-natural) state among all 50, with nearly the lowest amount of public lands.

Despite these facts, I enjoy finding and exploring those last iotas of wildness in our limited public spaces. Their rarity makes them even more special.

In my day job and personal life I work and advocate for more protection and restoration of our prairies, savannas, and wetlands.

The deep loess soil region of the western third of Iowa was created by hydrological processes—frozen water (glaciers), melting water—and aeolian processes (wind), then water flowing across the land, and most recently by varied human activities.

I hope my photos provide an accurate yet optimistic representation of landscape shaped by aeolian, hydrological and anthropogenic processes.

Most of my time is spent the geologically unique Loess Hills landform along the Missouri River, with regular adventures into the southwesterly-flowing tributary watersheds of the Missouri west of Iowa’s Mississippi-Missouri divide. Occasionally I’ll venture across the wide Missouri to Nebraska or beyond.