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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 20, 2004  

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Where Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
When 1997
Photographer Raymond Gehman

A Utah prairie dog emerges to forage in spring snow. Though not completely dormant during the winter, prairie dogs return to activity and aboveground life in earnest in spring.

(Photograph shot on assigment for, but not published in, "Vanishing Prairie Dog," April 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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