Whit Deschner finds beauty in the abstract forms created on the range by artists of the bovine variety. “We don’t pay our artists, we eat them!” So declares Whit Deschner, creator of the Great Salt Lick Contest. The artists he’s referring to are animals…cows, elk, deer, goats and others…who create their art by licking salt blocks left for them in fields and pastures. An unusual art contests and auctions in the nation, where the prceeds are donated to Oregon Health & Science University and its efforts to find to a cure for Parkinson’s Disease. Over the years more than $40,000 has been raised for the cause. See more about the Great Salt Lick contest at: www.whitdeschner.com/great-salt-lick-contest.html