Whet your appetite for the outdoors with a look at some fine wildlife art:

1. Jack Paluh has an active Web presence, even inviting fans to help name his new originals.

2. One of my favorite indoor haunts in the West is the National Museum of Wildlife Art, which overlooks the National Elk Refuge outside Jackson, Wyo. Robert Bateman’s “Chief” threatens to charge off the wall, both at the museum and from the reproduction in the map room at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel. Grand works from the likes of Ansel Adams, John James Audubon, Alexander Pope, Albert Bierstadt and Carl Rungius also are on display. A must-see destination for the western traveler.

3. Thomas Moran, along with photographer William Henry Jackson, brought the incredible sights of Yellowstone to disbelieving Eastern residents in the 1870s. They hold up beautifully today.

4. Take a long look at Hudson River School artists’ work. Romanticized nature never looked so good.