Fig. 1Granite hills and spring wildflowers, Wichita Mountains
Landform
Ancient granite knobs rising from mixed-grass — Charon’s Garden, Mount Scott, and a spring bloom of coreopsis on the refuge prairie.
Field note
The rock is older than the plains. Bison and longhorn still use the refuge. Cache and Lawton are the towns. This plate is Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, not the Black Hills and not a farm pond.
The Wichitas are granite knobs in mixed-grass — Charon’s Garden, Mount Scott, a spring bloom. Cache and Lawton are the towns. This plate is the wildlife refuge, not the Black Hills.
