Photos: Best of the West

Alison Kolwaite, a member of the Trust for Public Land, center, pets a 70-day-old trumpeter swan during a gathering by the Fish, Wildlife and Parks to release five swans into the wild at the Granger Ranch outside Ennis, Mont. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. The five young trumpeter swans were released into southwestern Montana's Madison Valley this week, marking a milestone in an effort to restore the swans to the valley northwest of Yellowstone National Park. (AP Photo/Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez)