For more than thirty years, Bob Wick was a wilderness specialist with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), helping to oversee the bureau’s 10 million acres of designated wilderness and 11.6 million acres of wilderness study areas. Bob was also the BLM’s de-facto landscape photographer, a collateral duty that has taken him to many crown jewels and hidden landscapes on public lands throughout the West. Bob grew up in Western Pennsylvania and earned both an undergraduate and a masters degree in forestry on the east coast before taking a temp position at the BLM field office in Cañon City, Colorado in 1988 to write wilderness study reports.
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A conversation with Bob Wick, legendary BLM public lands photographer
Aug 20, 2021
Issue: Outdoor Recreation
Subject: BLM, National Monuments
By Center for Western Priorities
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