Sometime around 2002 I chartered a small plane to photograph the landscapes around the bunch grass prairies in NE Oregon. These are one of the last remaining ec

Sometime around 2002 I chartered a small plane to photograph the landscapes around the bunch grass prairies in NE Oregon. These are one of the last remaining ecological intact bunchgrass prairies in North America. One of the features I caught on film are “mima mounds”. To this day I license these images over and over again because the mechanism that shapes the mounds is hotly debated. I had no idea what they were at the time, but it is fascinating. It’s also fascinating that conversations and debates around these kinds of mysterious features just keeps on going.