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West and East Butte on the shortgrass

Fig. 1West and East Butte on the shortgrass

Photo: Marjaliisa · CC BY-SA 3.0

Landform

Two isolated buttes on a shortgrass sea. Eastern Colorado — empty, rolling, and quietly huge.

Field note

The buttes rise a few hundred feet and feel taller because everything else is sky. Pronghorn use the grassland. The wind is the main weather.

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