This gallery main page includes only a sample of the photos. There are so many good ones (and even they are only a fraction of the ones that people took!) that the full gallery would take too long to download on some systems. Thus, it has been broken into several sections as indicated at various points below.
If you would like to have copies of these pictures, you can either download and save them individually (use right-click) or else give me a zip100 disk and I'll copy the full folder for you.
Many thanks to all who provided pictures to share with others. (For credits, see name with each photo.)
Jim Grier
Rana pipiens and Homo sapiens (Josh) at the Sheyenne National Grasslands field trip. (Photo by David Rogowski.)
For more Sheyenne grasslands photos, click here.
Mosasaur display at the ND state capitol museum, Bismarck, during our stop at the ND Paleontology Laboratory. (Photo by James Schmitt.)
Scenery and miscellaneous photos from the Western Dakotas trip ...
Part of our group. Unfortunately, we didn't get a picture of the entire group. This is the closest we came, at the end of the trip after the other van had already headed back to Fargo. (Photo by Dan Moen, via timer.)
The two panoramic shots below (view from Eagle Nest Butte and Hell Creek site) are shown as small pictures without very good resolution, so they would fit onto the page. To get a larger, better resolution version, click on the picture.
View from Eagle Nest Butte south toward the Cave Hills, where we camped. For distance scale, if you look closely just to the center of the large version of this photo, you can see two tiny dark dots: our two vans parked on the road! (Photo by Mark Davis.)
Around the campfire, under a nearly full moon. (Photo by Jim Grier using Natalie Gackle's camera.)
Hell Creek site where we looked for upper-Cretaceous fossils. Can you find at least one person in the picture (may need large version)? (Photo[s -- composite] by James Schmitt.)
For more scenery and miscellaneous photos, click here.
Rattlesnake on a lichen-covered rock. Who says we don't have color in the Dakotas! -- You just need to know where to look. (Photo by Matt Smith.)
There are three additional gallery sections on snakes. For the first, miscellaneous set of rattlesnakes on the ground, click here.
Gathered around looking at and working with rattlesnakes. (Photo by Carina Lee.)
For the section on catching and working with the prairie rattlesnakes, click here.
One of the pink-tongued rattlesnakes. Most of the population has tongues with black tips and a dark blue base; but we found several variations of those character states. (Photo by Dan Moen.)
A yellow-bellied racer, one of several that we found. (Photo by Erik Schmidt.)
For the remaining snake photos, click here.
At the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. (Photo by Dan Moen.)
For other BHIGR photos, click here. (For a link to the BHIGR's web site, click here.)
Gaboon viper at the Black Hills Reptile Gardens. (Photo by James Schmitt.)
For other photos of Reptile Gardens, click here. (For a link to the Reptile Gardens' web site, click here.)
From our Chicago trip to the Midwest Herpetological Symposium, looking at the Sarcosuchus imperator skull with Paul Sereno, its discoverer. We were treated to a sneak preview -- it was not announced to the public until the following week (for a web site, at National Geographic, on the discovery and information about the fossil, click here). (Photo by Jim Grier.)
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