Owner John Kukral casts for trout in the North Platte River at Park Range Ranch, a guest ranch -- but only for hunters, fishers, and other friends of the owner -- in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") Mr. Kukral uses a custom pole made of long, highly flexible slivers of bamboo originally designed by Goodwin Granger in the 1920s. The Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson County, one of the the least-populated counties in America, is a somewhat like a beautiful national park but minus tourists and their inconsiderate behavior. It is uncrowded, teeming with wildlife, inaccessible from other than a dead-end dirt road on strictly private property, unspoiled by visitors taking "selfie" photographs, and unadulterated by tour buses, trash and other detritus. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2016.