Mike Kopp
Beautiful Badlands ND Artist
Mike Kopp is a life-long career journalist with experience in television news and radio news. He was a newspaper editor in western North Dakota, and won six awards for newspaper photography and five awards for broadcast documentaries. His photos have sold in galleries across North Dakota and are known for"sense of place and time", as each is accompanied with a story giving the collector a sense of place in North Dakota. Mike has hiked, canoed, camped, and ridden horse in the Badlands of North Dakota for over 35 years. Mike's promotions of motorcycle tourism in North Dakota has garnered the attention of national travel interests.
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West of Watford City, a concentraion of oil activity -- an oil drill and storage tanks all in one locations reduces the footprint of the work of oil drilling.
From the south, the Fort Union Trading Post appears much like it would have looked to the trappers and traders who came downstream (from the south) to the confluence of the rivers.
The Fairview Lift Bridge is a landmark of the region.
Imagine seeing a train exiting the Cartwright Tunnel.
All that's left of Trotters on Highway 16 where there was once an essential postoffice and general store
How can you get to the other side. This is East River Road, but where do you get across to West River Road?
From Square Butte, Sentinel Butte is visible on the horizon, 15 miles away, making it part of a recognizable route before explorers had Google Maps.
The roads we travel to bring you the images of the region are not always in the best shape.
From millions to a widespread handful of herds, the bison who roamed the plains play a significant role in Badlands history.
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