Open-Source Hillshade

The goal of this assignment is to use QGIS instead of ArcGIS for a project. We took a Open Source Lidar called OpenTopography, created a raster, and then do some sort of analysis. I chose to do hillshade on a couple of different places: a hilly terrain in the rough (I wanted to spell it wrough!) Dall Sheep infested Wrangell Mountains of Alaska, and the relatively flat Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Idaho. Both were influenced by the end of Ice Age glaciation; the Wrangells were worn down by the great ice sheets, and Bear Lake was the first freshwater lake formed in glaciated North America after the Ice Age. The lake was formed by the Wasatch Front dropping beneath the glaciers; and the water began to pool beneath it. This is how Bear Lake was formed. The lake continues to deepen, however the area to the north of it is flat marshlands, which made it perfectly good for migratory birds resting on their long journeys from the Yukon to Florida or Mexico, or Tierra Del Fuego. The different terrain features provide different habitats for different kinds of animals. The rough Wrangells, a home for Dall Sheep away from the wolves; for the birds, a long distance stop much like Little America in Wyoming; albeit without the fast food.