A cold Winter dawn illuminates the calm waters of a small wetland in the Painted Hills unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, in Central Oregon. It is January 2006 and the peaceful stillness of this high desert scene is interrupted only by the occasional distant call of a Coyote.

A cold Winter dawn illuminates the calm waters of a small wetland in the Painted Hills unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, in Central Oregon. It is January 2006 and the peaceful stillness of this high desert scene is interrupted only by the occasional distant call of a Coyote.