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Pinyon pine tree on the rim of a desert canyon.

Remains of a remote, hidden ancient ruins - a Sinagua Indian cliff dwelling - viewed from its easiest approach by level ground. The stone wall part way up the hill defines the outside perimeter of the dwelling, within which existed interior stone walls defining various living spaces. Exterior walls were built of loose volcanic rock stacked on top of existing volcanic rock and boulders. There is one main entrance through this front wall, with small adjacent holes in the rock placement through which arrows could be fired if enemies threatened. A secondary access and egress point is availabe to occupants higher up in the dwelling. The far side of the dwelling is a sheer cliff dropping down to a long steep hill down to a dry riverbed. Site selection was critical for the Sinagua, and perfectly executed here. This culture combined hunting and gathering with agriculture, but the latter was challenging in this arrid, wilderness terrain. The exact site location, which requires considerable effort to reach, is intentionally omitted. Its estimated age dates to 1300 AD - 1400 AD. Remote Sinagua Cliff Dwelling Site, Northern Arizona, 2013.

Mountains and trees of Colorado in spring through fall crisp

Great Basin bristlecone pine tree, Pinus longaeva, showing growth habit. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, USA. Nov 1979.

$Sunset Crater (far left) is one of nearly 600 volcanoes in the San Francisco Volcanic Field. It is the youngest volcano in the area, forming around 1,000 years ago. This 1,000-foot-high cinder cone formed when basalt magma rose directly to the surface through a primary vent. Gas pressure in the volcano produced a fountain of lava about 850 feet high. The lava was blown into pieces, which cooled in flight and piled into a cone-shaped hill. Sunset Crater was a short-lived volcano, lasting only months or a couple of years at the most. When famed explorer John Wesley Powell explored the San Francisco Volcanic Field in 1885 he wrote, \$

Mt Charleston Diversity Make It Great for Visiting Destination

Boulder-strewn ridge in the Sierra Nevada of California.

In Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, an isolated juniper tree stands out in an expanse of wilderness. The juniper, small in stature, is an example of vegetation found in a “pygmy forest,” an ecosystem comprised of miniature trees, small rodents, and lizards.

$Pinus edulis, the Colorado pinyon, two-needle piñon, pinyon pine, or simply piñon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group native to the Southwestern United States, used for its edible pine nuts. Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. \tPinaceae.$

A mesa in the high desert of Central Oregon.

View westward of the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, western USA, North America. Nearest cities are Denver, Colorado Springs and Alamosa Colorado.

Sagebrush outside Taos, New Mexico. - See lightbox for more

Desolation in South Sierra Wilderness on the remote Haiwee Trail along the 9200ft elevation sagebrush mountain crest south of the 12132ft Olancha Peak in the background.

Aspen trees whose leaves have changed to the fall yellow color and conifer trees, on eastern Sierra Nevada

Beautiful Inyo National Forest in the Sierra Nevada

Ephedra viridis, known by the common names green Mormon tea, green ephedra, and Indian tea, is a species of Ephedra. It is indigenous to the Western United States, where it is a member of varied scrub, woodland, desert, and open habitats. Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest; White Mountains; Inyo National Forest; Inyo County; California.

Mountain plants, conifers. Wildlife near the Grand Canyon, Arizona USA

Split rock was a navigation aid to pioneers headed west in early America in Wyoming of North America. In Wild west times it was stage stop and pony express stop.

Pinyon and juniper forest in the White Mountains of California.

The bristlecone pines on the dry hill with grass against a cloudy sky

Unbelievable Views from the top of Mt Charleston Nevada USA

Countryside landscape with autochthon bushes and conifers in Alicante, Spain

Singular trees in the Valley of Batuecas, Spain

Green grassy prairie and sky with cumulus in Utah, along highway 89 near Le Fevre Overlook, with Grand Staircase Escalante in the distance.

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