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Photo of the Week – The Highest Point of the Great Plains
This is it. The highest point of the entire Great Plains – Fishers Peak in southern Colorado – 9,633 ft. It’s not geologically part of
The Great Plains – A Big Place, but not a “Megaregion”
America has been in the process of becoming more and more urbanized and suburbanized for a very long time. Apparently, geographers think that trend will
GPT – Photo of the Week
The Fabulous Picketwire Canyon in Comanche National Grassland, Colorado
GPT Photo of the Week
Sometimes rocks just, well, rock! From small stones to huge boulders, they are the raw materials of the planet, and can be strikingly beautiful. Rocks
Great Grizzlies!
As a follow up to the earlier post about The Revenant, where the historical (not Hollywood) Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear on
GPT Photo of the Week
The View from White Butte, the highest point in North Dakota (3,506 ft)
GPT Photo of the Week
Yes, there are a lot of road miles on the Great Plains Trail, but that is by necessity, not by design. In a perfect world
The Revenant
I’m a little late in seeing the movie, The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It came out in 2015 and I only just recently saw it
GPT Photo of the Week
This is from a trip to the high point of Oklahoma (one of 5 state high points that the GPT connects with) way back in
GPT Photo of the Week
Near Toadstool Geologic Park in western Nebraska is a lonely landscape of dry, cracked earth where even grasses have a hard time in the shifting
