Editorial Illustration for Western Confluence

Claire Loon Baldwin’s editorial illustration was published online in Western Confluence, a publication of the University of Wyoming’s Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources. The piece accompanied the article "Managers Unite: The Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee Celebrates Six Decades of Cooperative Conservation" by Kristen Pope.

The illustration combines watercolor and digital media. The watercolor rendering of Grand Prismatic Spring captures the steaming surface and natural fractal textures of the hot spring. Surrounding it, a wreath of digital line art includes a grizzly bear, cutthroat trout, compass, Whitebark pine cone, and hands shaking—symbols representing the work of the coordinating committee.

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