America's beautiful wilderness captured by landscape photographer Marc Muench

**Honey** · October 4th, 2011, 03:11 PM

Photographer Marc Muench from Santa Barbara, California, has travelled close to a million miles across the highways of the US over the course of his 25-year career capturing the wilderness of the USA as yet untouched by human development.

A 3,000-year-old bristlecone pine stump in the White Mountains of Inyo National Forest, California

Marc is only too aware of the fragility of the American wilderness. He hopes that through his photography he can raise people's awareness of just how beautiful the wild can be. "For much of the recent past most of America was undeveloped, unexplored and still wild," he said. "This vast wilderness is quickly becoming tame with development pressure and expanding populations. Increased demand for resources plays the most damaging role in taming the wilds of the American wilderness."

Sailor Lake in the Upper Sabrina Basin in the John Muir Wilderness, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

The Double Arch at night in the Arches National Park, Utah

The beach at Elwood Mesa on the Gaviota Coast, Goleta, California

Sugar and Ponderosa Pines engulfed in fog on the slopes of Figueroa Mountain, Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County, California

Cloud cover over Koke'e State Park in Waimea, Kauai in Hawaii

Dingleberry Lake in the John Muir Wilderness in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California

Mile marker 390 to 440 in Natchez Trace Parkway West of Nashville, Tennessee

The Bass Harbor Head Light lighthouse beam reflected on waves at the Acadia National Park, Maine

Two Medicine Lake and Sinopah Mountain at Glacier National Park in Montana

America's beautiful wilderness captured by landscape photographer Marc Muench - Telegraph