American Bison, Wildlife, and Nature Photography

The Battle of the Bison

Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota is where the wild things are

Randy Runtsch
Wildlife Trekker
Published in
5 min readApr 5, 2022

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“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

The Little Missouri River winds through the North Dakota Badlands in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. © 2022 by Randy Runtsch.

Nine years ago, following a trip to Yellowstone National Park, my oldest son asked why I return to the park over and over again. I pondered the question for a moment. Certainly, its scenery cannot match the majestic mountains of the Teton Range in the adjacent Grand Teton National Park. And its Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone does not approach the grandeur of the Grand Canyon. But its valleys, meadows, and forests…

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Randy Runtsch
Wildlife Trekker

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