From the 1961 year end special issue - OUR SPLENDID OUTDOORS. The first image is an unpublished outtake (Lone Pine,California) from the cover tries, the image that follows landed on the Dec. 22, and 1961 cover (Grand Tetons National Park,Wyoming). According to LIFE, “increasingly, and Americans are beginning to regard the delights of the land—it’s animals,wilderness, seas and lofty crags—as universal heritage. This issue shows how we select pleasure in this heritage and how it enchants the naturalist, and inspires the philosopher and recharges us all. It also shows how we absorb despoiled it,how threats still hang perilously over it and how we are fighting to save the land we love and enjoy.” (Photos: Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #California #Wyoming
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