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Freezeout Lake Snow Geese, Montana, 2000

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"Like a late winter storm off the peaks, snow geese settle onto stubbled grain fields in early April. As many as 300,000 geese and 10,000 tundra swans follow the Rocky Mountain Front during their seasonal journeys north and south."

—From the National Geographic book Yellowstone to Yukon, 2000

Photograph by Raymond Gehman

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