North Dakota

North Dakota

The North Dakota State Capitol building stands in Bismarck, North Dakota. 

The intersection of Main Street and Center Avenue in Mayville, North Dakota.

Downtown Fargo and the Fargo movie theater photographed on July 12, 2016

Housing for oil workers off of U.S. Hwy 85 in McKenzie County, North Dakota, photographed on September 24, 2013. 

The current oil boom in the Bakken Formation, based on new drilling techniques including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking), 

began early in the 21st century, attracting thousands of workers to the state.

An abandoned church stands in the small community of Heil, North Dakota. 

An abandoned building stands in Crystal Springs, North Dakota.

New apartments and condos for oil-field workers sit on the edge of Watford City, North Dakota.

An oil drilling rig is seen in an aerial view during the early morning hours near Bismarck, North Dakota, on July 30, 2013.

Natural gas is flared near pumpjacks at an oil well near Buford, North Dakota, in the Bakken oil fields.

Dead sunflowers stand in a field near idle oil drilling rigs stacked in Dickinson, North Dakota, on January 21, 2016.

Vanessa Kummer walks on a storage-bin catwalk on her family farm near Colfax, North Dakota, on August 6, 2019.

The historic Hi-Line railroad bridge crosses the Sheyenne River in Valley City, North Dakota. 

A huge cumulonimbus cloud forms in the sky near Bowman, North Dakota.

In 2016, a Christmas Day rainfall coated everything with a thick layer of ice, including this cattail slough. 

Photo taken south of Kulm, North Dakota, in the Kulm Wetland Management District

A close view of a hoodoo, with other hills and rock formations visible in the background in the badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Abandoned railroad tracks, photographed on a summer day, on a flat stretch of land in North Dakota 

Winds blow snow across a highway during a storm near Harwood, North Dakota.

Wildflowers and grassland as far as the eye can see, near Bowman, North Dakota 

Sun dogs, atmospheric optical phenomena, form in the sunlight shining through ice crystals above the frozen ground 

in North Dakota’s prairie pothole region.

A view of barren buttes made of bentonite clay above a green river valley in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. 

Evening light settles across Theodore Roosevelt National Park. 

A barn stands in a North Dakota sunflower field, photographed in August of 2013.

An eastbound coal train swings through the curves at Sully Springs, North Dakota, passing an oil well in the process. 

The 49th Annual United Tribes Powwow takes place in Bismarck on September 8, 2018.

 More than 900 dancers and musicians gathered to compete for prizes and to celebrate Native American culture. 

Farmer Doug Zink checks the quality of soil in his soybean field near Carrington, North Dakota, on August 8, 2019.

A sharp-tailed grouse, photographed in North Dakota’s prairie pothole region.

 In the spring, sharp-tailed grouse form mating grounds, or leks, where they congregate to compete for territories and perform mating displays.

A pronghorn runs across a North Dakota prairie.

White pelicans fly along the water’s surface in Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge. 

The white pelican is one of the the largest birds in North America, with a nine-foot wingspan, and the refuge is home to one 

of the biggest white-pelican nesting colonies on the continent. 

A short-eared owl perches at Kellys Slough, part of North Dakota’s Devils Lake Wetland Management District Complex.

A horse drive takes Percheron geldings down 20 miles of roads and across the plains of western North Dakota to a ranch in Round Prairie Township, 

west of Williston, on October 25, 2013. 

Jake Henderson walks his horse at sunset after an all-day drive, west of Williston, North Dakota, on October 25, 2013. 

A bison walks through the Little Missouri River in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

A massive flock of migrating snow geese, photographed north of Woodworth, North Dakota. 

The flock was estimated to be one mile long and several hundred yards wide, consisting of more than a million birds.