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Dave Showalter

Dave Showalter is based in Colorado and focuses primarily on landscapes and wildlife of the American West. Dave spent four years working on 'Prairie Thunder - The Nature of Colorado's Great Plains', a conservation photo book covering Colorado’s shortgrass prairie. The book won the pictorial category at the 2008 Colorado Book Awards and marked a turning point in his photo career.

 

Dave is the 'volunteer' photographer for Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, once a Superfund cleanup site turned urban refuge. He teaches a summer 'Cameras in Action' photo workshop at the refuge for city high school students. Dave’s work has been published in Outside, Outdoor Photographer, Defenders, Backpacker and other publications.

 

Dave is currently working on a new book project that covers the threatened sagebrush lands of the intermountain west.

 

Dave lives in Arvada, Colorado with his wife, Marla and their adopted yellow lab, Abby.

  • Sage Spirit Conservation Project
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Sage Spirit Conservation Project

by Dave Showalter


Sage Spirit is a conservation photo project in the American West. Dave Showalter is working with Western conservation leaders to conserve and link important and threatened landscapes for wildlife, our Western heritage, recreation, and future generations

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The Gunnison Landscape Puzzle
Mar 7, 2012
The Gunnison Landscape Puzzle
Mar 7, 2012
Dave Showalter
Reflecting on the Absaroka TIM, November 29
Dec 13, 2011
Reflecting on the Absaroka TIM, November 29
Dec 13, 2011
"It didn't take me long to realize that the A-B Front is the most important, fully-functioning ecosystem...
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the field 11/12 Shoshone River
Nov 12, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the field 11/12 Shoshone River
Nov 12, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the field 11/11 Elk Fork
Nov 11, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the field 11/11 Elk Fork
Nov 11, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the field 11/10 Legend Rock
Nov 10, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the field 11/10 Legend Rock
Nov 10, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/29 Bear Track-ing
Sep 29, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/29 Bear Track-ing
Sep 29, 2011
Dave Showalter
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/28 Clark's Fork Canyon
Sep 28, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/28 Clark's Fork Canyon
Sep 28, 2011
Dave Showalter
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/27 Greybull Pass
Sep 27, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/27 Greybull Pass
Sep 27, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/23 Clark, Wyoming
Sep 23, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/23 Clark, Wyoming
Sep 23, 2011
Dave Showalter
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/22 Greybull River, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming
Sep 22, 2011
Absaroka TIM Dispatches from the Field 9/22 Greybull River, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming
Sep 22, 2011
Dave Showalter
Above the Ground with iLCP Fellow Dave Showalter
May 14, 2013
Above the Ground with iLCP Fellow Dave Showalter
May 14, 2013
"Flying over many places in the West, I’m struck by how crowded things look from the air... the aerial...
NG News Watch: Dave Showalter
Jun 28, 2011
NG News Watch: Dave Showalter
Jun 28, 2011
Dave Showalter
Bringing Conservation Into Focus
Mar 20, 2012
Bringing Conservation Into Focus
Mar 20, 2012
Gunnison TIS
Feb 1 ~ Feb 2, 2012
Gunnison, CO
Dave Showalter teamed up with LightHawk at the Gunnison airport on a photographic mission to better understand the relationship of ranching to BLM and Forest Service lands where cattle graze in summer.
Absaroka Front TIM
Aug 20 ~ Aug 30, 2011
Absaroka Beartooth Front, Wyoming
Photographer Dave Showalter joined the GYC, Lighthawk, and theInternational League of Conservation Photographers to document this landscape and support the campaign to protect the Absaroka-Beartooth Front,...
Sage Spirit TIS
Jun 21 ~ Jun 21, 2011
Wyoming and the surrounding Western states bear the burden of developing energy responsibly and leaving some of our natural and Western heritage for future generations.
Gallery Exhibitions List All Gallery Exhibitions >
Sage Spirit - The Future of the American West, by Dave Showalter
Jun 7 ~ Jul 27, 2013
iLCP Fans in Denver, Colorado! Don't miss the exhibit by iLCP Fellow Dave Showalter: “Sage Spirit - The Future of the American West” at the Denver Photo Art Gallery, June 7- July 27.
CEMEX Conservation Series List All CEMEX Conservation Series >
OCEANS: Heart of our Blue Planet
Nov 23, 2011
With photography from the International League of Conservation photographers...
Water makes life on Earth possible, and every drop of it comes from and returns to the ocean. For centuries we have taken the ocean for granted, viewed it as inexhaustible,unknowable; a vast, briny, deep...
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Prairie Thunder - The Nature Of Colorado's Great Plains
Oct 30, 2007
Photography and text by Dave Showalter. Foreword by Richard Manning. Published...