| 单词 | mesa |
| 例句 | The dark yellow plant from the rocky mesa top smelled like wet tobacco; she laid it beside the ocher sandstone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He has passed up graves covered by foot-high rectangular blocks, called mesas, with triangular headstones that would make good pillows. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The top of the mesa w as a flat deck of stone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have liked to say something about solitude, about night, about the mesa lying pale under the moon, about the precipice, the plunge into shadowy darkness, about death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like a metal mesa, the length of a football field and as tall as goalposts. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z On the sides, layers of different colors were stacked on one another like the distant mesas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The moon lacked only a night of being full, and the flat bare sandrock on the mesa top reflected its light like snow, and he could see his way clearly. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Joe Mondragon, off on a wood run, drove like a maniac over the mesa’s potholed dirt roads, a beer in one hand, the radio blasting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Claudio walked away from the stream, carrying her into the sagebrush until they could no longer hear water, until the land—the mountains, the mesa leading off to the gorge—was very quiet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At times the road cut into the cliffs made by the mesas that rose from the river valley, then the river was far below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Far up the trail that led to the mesa I found things from the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The sides of the great mesa ship towered over them, three hundred feet to the gunwale. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In this way they progressed across the mesa, through the pale lavender sageland. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All alone, outside the pueblo, on the bare plain of the mesa. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At sundown he was lying on the sand at the bottom of the long mesa, feeling the heat recede from the air and from his body into the earth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The valley was green, from the yellow sandstone mesas in the northwest to the black lava hills to the south. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Cattle far out on the mesa died when hay could not be trucked in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun had gone down, behind the mesa below the rimrock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z On a practical level, living on a five-hundred-yard-long mesa was a daunting task. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We returned from the first day of harvest by the first light of the moon as it came through the portal formed by the black mesas. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The AEC chairman could not imagine how a bifurcated weapons program would operate or how the reduction in responsibility for the Super would affect morale on the New Mexico mesa. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bouncing, rocking, tipping, Amarante rode his mammoth mechanical bronco across the wide and lovely mesa—jackrabbits fled for their lives. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The mesa coyotes were singing, calling to each other or challenging the moon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We gathered them at low tide in baskets and carried them to the mesa where we cut the dark red flesh from the shell and placed it on flat rocks to dry in the sun. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited on the mesa until the sun was overhead. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They had camped on the mesa, at the place and the spring they had used before. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat behind our hogan, leaning against its familiar walls and looking up toward the mesa. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He left the road and took a trail that cut directly to the cliffs, winding up the chalky gray hill where the mesa plateau ended in crumbling shale above the red clay flats. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And when we arrived at the village we saw the homed day-moon fixed exactly between the two dark mesas at the southern end of the valley! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked with him to the shade at the foot of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There are great mesas here, twice as high as the Tibetan plateau, an immense rift valley, possibly giant volcanoes and a mountain as high as Everest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On an Arizona highway, a two-car caravan is flashing across sagebrush country—the mesa country of hawks and rattlesnakes and towering red rocks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The mesa was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to determine when it had been built, but except for the sagging screen all around the long porch, the house was like the mesas around it: years had little relation to it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The trail was parallel to the top of the orange sandrock mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The big mesa is to this day regarded as an apu, an ancient spirit transfigured into rock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At one end of the mesa was a row of ten thick metal columns, wedged tightly together. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They walked out of the pueblo, across the mesa. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, taking her time, Betita walked across the mesa to the rim of the gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was rising above the last mesa he had crossed from the east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Silently I left the toyon bushes and ran without stopping until I reached the mesa. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, the morning rays were barely touching the tips of the sandstone mesas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They walked west across the long mesa where the old ones had piled stones in circles, high above the flat sandstone mesa top far above the canyons and springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The water oozed out from the dark orange sandstone at the base of the long mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The moon was behind him; he looked dowm into die black shadow of the mesa, into the black shadow of death. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Our women were gathering at the edge of the mesa. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s probably up on some mesa right now, chopping wood,” Rocky said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The yellow bull grazed in open view, but the speckled cows stayed in the juniper, listening like deer to Tayo’s approach, their spotted hides blending into the sandy talus of the big mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The sandstone and dirt they had taken from inside the mesa was piled in mounds, in long rows, like fresh graves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He stumbled and ran behind the sun, not following but dragged with it across arroyos, over mesas and hills. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z So they climbed out of the gorge and sped along the mesa in a dust cloud, singing fervently and almost joyously together, until suddenly the car hit a confused jackrabbit and Linda burst into tears. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nathan looked at the rising half-full moon; shadows were covering the desert, deepening and darkening the colors of the land and mesas. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He spit the shells into the snow below the trail and tried to see into the distance below the mesa, over the edge of the steep trail where her house was. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Late in the afternoon they stopped to rest the animals in a canyon surrounded by red-rock mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The basket was filled and I carried it up to the mesa. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z By following the curve of the sandspit I could reach the cove and the trail that led to the mesa, but there was no time for this. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He continued north, looking to the yellows and the orange of the sandrock cliffs ahead, and to the narrow sandrock canyons that cut deep into the mesa, exposing the springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A car came, and Hall was driven to the top of a nearby mesa and through the gates of Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The earth was eroded to gray clay, and deep arroyos cut through the length of the valley between the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He glowed, and the mesa hardly breathed—the day was suspended, as still as a frightened rabbit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Toward midnight, coyotes on the western mesa sang their falsetto tunes and were answered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A light snow began falling as the car wound its way up a narrow dirt road carved into the side of a mesa. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They had seen him and they were scattering between juniper trees, through tall yellow grass, below the mesas near the dripping spring. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They were at the base of the sandstone mesa, which was now dark purple. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They walked along for some way in the shadow of the mesa, rounded a projection, and there, in a water worn ravine, was the way up the companion ladder. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed up the big boulders, feeling his way slowly, remembering ledges and cracks in the cliff wide enough for a person to climb to the top of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Shorty rode off the mesa and across the highway as the first soft waves of night spread into town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We were high up in the foothills, at least five hundred feet, and down below a valley spread out, filled with a tumbled collection of red mesas and boulders and spires of stone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z This sort of silliness went on until we rounded a mesa and saw the brown mist on the horizon that announced our approach to the city of Phoenix. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He took blue pollen and yellow pollen he took tobacco and coral beads; and he walked into the open country below the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The mesas to the east were obscured by veils of falling snow, and the sky above them was dark blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Above him, nighthawks fluttered jaggedly, uttering their deep resonant beeps; a touch of sensual peace and magic lay like a mist across the sagebrush and snakeweed mesa. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was moving higher into the sky, and the cliffs of the mesa radiated the sun’s warmth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The windshield fills with enough canyons, bluffs, mesas, and cliffs for a dozen Road Runner cartoons. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had believed that on certain nights, when the moon rose full and wide as a corner of the sky, a person standing on the high sandstone cliff of that mesa could reach the moon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The cloudy yellow sandstone of Enchanted Mesa was still smoky blue before dawn, and only a faint hint of yellow light touched the highest point of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you go on up the canyon,” Oppenheimer suggested, pointing east, “you come out on top of the mesa, and there’s a boys’ school there which might be a usable site.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The village of Ghalas-at lay east of the hills on a small mesa, near Coral Cove and a good spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind blew strong as we climbed the trail, cover- ing the mesa with sand that sifted around our legs and shut out the sky. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Plantings signify the various landscapes, and custom-built wood seating represents the territories’ plains and mesas. How an Indigenous Architect Came Out of His Shell 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z We visited a pueblo called Sky City on a mesa hundreds of feet above the desert. Modern Love: A Lesson in the Desert 2013-07-18T22:19:50Z At the Elko Convention Center, a painted tarp frames the stage: a cloudless blue sky and the dun prow of a mesa jutting skyward. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images After the artist Georgia O'Keeffe left New York for the mesa of New Mexico, she began signing letters to friends "from the faraway nearby". The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review 2013-06-07T06:30:01Z To the south were the pink cliffs and mesas of a formation called the Sierra Quemada. Deep in the heart of Big Bend National Park 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Heizer may be best known for "Double Negative," a 1,500-foot-long land sculpture cut into a desert mesa in southern Nevada. LA museum to unveil artist's big rock work in June 2012-05-22T23:16:05Z Stretching your legs in a wonderland of red rock mesas, canyons and vortices that are thought to be alive with the Earth’s healing energy is a seasonless attraction. Escape From the City: 9 Winter Outings That Fight Cabin Fever 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But when he heard the news, he thought back to an evening in May 2002, when his father was living in Medanales, N.M., in a small adobe house overlooking a mesa. Did John McCracken Make That Monolith in Utah? 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z A flowered arch with strands of flowers hanging from it made a stark contrast against the edge of a mesa in the Southwestern desert. Finding Common Ground in the South, San Francisco and South India 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z There’s an open space where young kids are building a village with their own hands, and a mesa of dirt, donated by a construction company, that has been riddled with canyons and holes. What It Would Take to Set American Kids Free 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z With no way back up the monolith they abandoned their home and moved to the 357-foot tall mesa where the village sits now. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z We hiked one to two trails a day as we marveled at the colorful cliffs, mesas and canyons that offer snapshots of earth history, Hollywood tradecraft and pioneer grit. In Utah, celebrating eight decades at five national parks 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Only when we pedaled to the foot of the mesa did a small gash in the cliff appear, a pinched gravel byway that scissored up the rock face: the Mokee Dugway. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z Utah was full of wonderful red earth, mesas and mesa-type outcroppings. Wayne Thiebaud’s “Stuffed” 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Instead of painting a view of nature, sculptors created their own massive works outdoors on mesas, moraines and even the floor of the Mojave Desert. How Do You Sell a Work of Art Built Into the Earth? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z As I looked out toward a red anvil mesa, patched white with snow from an overnight storm, it struck me that the quirky dream machine had not kicked over for some time. T Magazine: Dream Weaver 2012-05-14T14:00:44Z Behind the nominal figure is a ghostly volcanic mountain range like the one that encircles Mexico City and, over the figure’s shoulder on the right, what might be mesas or possibly chopped tree stumps. Diego Rivera's Cubist masterpiece arrives at LACMA 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Two buses carried me and a group of 30 or so leather-jacketed Norwegian motorcyclists on a short ride to the collection of houses at the top of the giant mesa. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z For a sweat-free trek with ocean vistas, stroll around the tranquil Douglas Family Preserve, on a mesa above Arroyo Burro Beach. 36 Hours in Santa Barbara, Calif. 2011-11-17T16:20:04Z Beneath the surface, they were all fused together into a single underwater mesa, which rose ten thousand feet from the seafloor and leveled off just below the waterline. Vanished: Diving into a Real-Life WWII Mystery 2013-11-06T10:45:00Z But if you want mesas and forests and gulches and rivers in a video game, you have to build them by hand, from digital scratch if you will. Video Game Review: ?Red Dead Redemption? Brings Old West to Life 2010-05-16T19:25:00Z Once we crossed the border at Naco, it was open road: the sprawling West of childhood books, grassland, mesas, cactus and agave. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z The mesa ahead was a fortress, rearing up before us in a thousand-foot palisade of sandstone and shale; the world’s most intimidating layer cake. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z Soon the bus was a floating shadow against a wasteland of undulating rock, red Martian expanses and crumbly mesas. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Later, I spotted seven bighorn sheep, as still as statues as they balanced effortlessly on a precipitous mesa face, a startling image. In the Badlands, Where Hope for the Nation’s First Tribal Park Has Faded 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The Martian” With its red-rock buttes and mesas, Ridley Scott’s deeply satisfying space western both draws from an enduring genre and his own Pantheon legacy. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z On a mesa above Canyon Road is another don’t-miss art destination: Museum Hill, the only one of the city’s art destinations not within easy walking distance of downtown. Santa Fe inspires with art, history and natural beauty 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Some of it felt vaguely familiar with trips to the Hopi mesas. ‘Modern Mexican’ Steps Into the Spotlight 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Argentina-born local sculptor Norma Schwartz often works in poplar but carves the streaked wood into forms that suggest stone cliffs, pillars and mesas. Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Her view of the explosion comes not from a trench, but from “our little Shangri-la on the mesa,” more than 200 miles away, where she waits with other workers kept in the dark. The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Imagined Through His Collisions With Others 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready. Relationships Carved From Clay Bring New Partners to Museums 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z Murray’s bright, cartoony renderings of mesas, desert, canyons and plant life in Utah are undeniably tantalizing. Elizabeth Murray: A Singular Style, Steeped in Many 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Every day I’d saunter out under the cottonwoods, their leaves stirring silver in a breeze off the mesa, and cross the irrigation ditch into the nearby field. Favorite Place: In Taos, N.M., an Ordinary Field Evokes the Extraordinary 2012-04-06T20:05:28Z Completed in 1966, the building is situated high on a mesa overlooking the city, with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop. Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Works 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The works present as stormy, earth-toned abstractions, but they are deeply site-responsive, their ingredients gathered in New Mexican mesas, Ozarks bluffs, Louisiana wetlands. Her Art Reads the Land in Deep Time 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z They feature landscape elements — a mesa, a field of flowers, chain-link fence — and turbulent abstract forms. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The trenches mechanically displaced tons of desert sandstone across a natural indentation in the mesa. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Our foreman told us about petroglyphs carved in the walls up on the mesas, so after work we set off to find them. Modern Love: What Is Carved in Stone 2011-05-27T17:29:32Z There are desert, dunes, salt flats, plateaus, mesas and buttes, ancient volcanoes, abandoned mines, and few paved roads or established trails. Pick Mojave National Preserve over Joshua Tree: Twice the size, a quarter the visitors, all the beauty 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Soon the train was chugging through spiny hills and red-tinged mesas. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z She began to finance Charles Ross’s “Star Axis,” a stellar observatory, of sorts, still in progress today on a mesa in New Mexico. Virginia Dwan, a Jet Age Medici, Gets Her Due 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z I didn’t spot any cherry wood tables, but the view was of one giant mesa: a table for God himself. I left corporate life behind to live in a camper van. I am never going back 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z As Page faded into a landscape of coppery mesas, she turned onto a dirt “road” — actually a wide, dry streambed — masterfully navigating the vehicle through deep, bumpy ruts. She finally got to the Southwest’s most-photographed slot canyon. And it left her speechless. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z We also visited the wreckage of a petroglyph on a mesa wall near Bluff. At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z It was dusk, and a fiery orange sunlight spread slowly over the step-like mesas. ‘The Place Where Shamans Dream’: Safeguarding Spirit Mountain 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Variously comical, stately, architectural and gestural, these pieces erupt from the gallery’s expansive concrete floors like unusually well-shaped mesas, turning the totality into an exhilarating indoor landscape. Art Review: Sculpture in High Relief 2011-05-19T22:00:20Z The remoteness of the trail is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, there are razor-sharp mesas and ghostly valleys, making for unforgettable scenery. Biking the Open Road in Colorado, With a Few Bumps Along the Way 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Henry parked his Suburban on the mesa’s flat top and pointed to the colored walls of the San Juan River canyon in the distance. In Utah, celebrating eight decades at five national parks 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Cape Town, wedged between the towering sandstone mesa of Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean on Africa’s southern tip, is marvelously scenic. Journeys: A Culinary Gateway to Cape Town Opens 2012-11-28T17:30:02Z After a small battle with soldiers sent to negotiate, the conquistador Don Juan Oñate attacked the mesa and killed hundreds of men, women and children. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z But on this walk in Palo Duro Canyon State Park, what I saw high atop a nearby mesa was no Texan trompe l’oeil: A Barbary sheep sat silhouetted against the midday sun. Texas’ best-kept secret? A 120-mile-long canyon that’s grand in its own right. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z We’re not starting from the base here, but there is a strong feeling in “Better Call Saul” that the climb back up the mesa is going to be a complicated journey. Review of AMC’s ‘Better Call Saul’: Every sleazeball has a story to tell 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z As our balloon bobbed its way down-valley, the town’s landmarks — the gondola, Bridal Veil Falls, the mesa where the airport is located — shrank until the landscape looked like a Monopoly board. Telluride beyond the slopes: The Colorado town’s hidden assets by hot-air balloon 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Reached at his Dwan-funded mesa, Mr. Ross dwelled on the “spiritual interests” that inspired his patron’s concern for space and light and the land. Virginia Dwan, a Jet Age Medici, Gets Her Due 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z A wind knifed high across the desert, bounded up and over the mesa top and side-winded through the alleys of Acoma Pueblo, pummeling us. Photographer Edward S. Curtis’s Southwest 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The road passed the King Mountain Wind Farm, 214 turbines on a mesa south of Odessa and evidence that fossil and renewable energy are sometimes bedfellows. Deep in the heart of Big Bend National Park 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z There are the handsome mosaics in the lobby, solemn paeans to communications technology, and the building catches light throughout the day, like some kind of sacred mesa. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Picture them coming off a mesa or range. | Band of Outsiders 2012-02-12T14:00:49Z We saddle up and roll to a promontory that would give even some hikers pause: Otto’s Wall, built in the early 1900s for ranchers moving herds up and down the mesa. Colorado adds a challenging new mountain biking adventure 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The brown cliffs of scorched mesas climb above a valley to the east while the sunset burns the pounding Pacific in bright orange hues. "Today is not your lucky day": U.S. military vets who fought for America and were deported anyway 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Started by the National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez, the Ancient Art Archive journeys to caves, mesas, buttes and other sites around the world, documenting the paintings and marks made by our ancient ancestors. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The other classic Cape Town shot: Table Mountain, the imposing mesa that defines the city’s skyline. 36 Hours in Cape Town 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The school looks upon red mesas, buttes and Ponderosa forests. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The top of the mesa felt like a sanctuary. Footsteps: Poetry Made Me Do It: My Trip to the Hebrides 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z An astute local businessman, hoping to realize Mr. Duvalier’s dream a few years ago, built the one-story Hotel Deruisseau on a mesa directly across from the falls. Explorer: In Haiti, Beauty That Plays Hard to Get (To) 2014-02-13T15:08:18Z As the name “Double Negative” implies, the two negative elements — a natural void at the mesa’s edge and a man-made void cut across it — together produce the positive force of the sculpture. R.H. Quaytman makes paintings as sculptures, mysterious and seductive at their best 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Menahan is from Montana and is now heading to southern Utah to paint the geology, flora and fauna of the high mesa. Amid the beautiful, strange treasures of the U.S. Botanic Garden, a young painter blossoms 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The perfect day would include productive time in the studio, finished off with an outdoor meal framed by the cliffs above and the expansive mesa beyond.” Carrot soup, chicken enchiladas and brownies: cooking with Georgia O'Keeffe 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Imagine staring across the Utah wilderness at those famous towering mesas and buttes. Campaign against Trump’s threat to US national monuments gathers pace 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The people farmed on the top of the mesa and lived in the dwellings. Searching for the Ancestral Puebloans 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z That landscape, in Eastern Free State and KwaZulu-Natal, with its mesas, striking flat-topped mountains, was the starting point for Kallos. First-time director brings 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The desert landscape is varied - from mountains and canyons, to sand dunes and mesas, to Joshua tree forests and volcanic cinder cones - and features about 10,000 threatened desert tortoises within its boundaries. California’s iconic Joshua trees threatened in massive wildfire 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The territory is a varied desert landscape — mountains and canyons, sand dunes and mesas, Joshua tree forests and volcanic cinder cones — and features about 10,000 threatened desert tortoise within its boundaries. Progress made against massive California-Nevada wildfire but flames may burn iconic Joshua trees 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z It also says the fire sparked by its power line spread quickly because it was on top of a flat mesa, allowing the fire to spread along the ground, and ignited nearby vegetation. Insurance companies sue energy corporation after it was blamed for helping start Colorado wildfire 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z The pair once spent a week combing brushy hills and mesas in the Grapevine Mountains on the eastern edges of Death Valley in hopes of spotting an elusive and rarely seen gray vireo. These retired teachers started with a little bird guide, and ended with a magnum opus 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Later, higher-resolution photographs with fewer shadows showed a pretty plain mesa. What Created This Mini Book-Shaped Rock on Mars? 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Drive 44 miles east along Highway 14 through winding mesas, buttes, and river scenery to the Maryhill Museum of Art. Road trip to White Salmon, Washington | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z An estimated 500 Catholic mission churches remain in northern New Mexico, where the Rocky Mountains taper off into desert mesas to the west and endless plains to the east. Dust to dust? New Mexicans fight to save old adobe churches 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z The next day members of the motorcycle club headed northeast, crossing into badlands of Arizona’s Painted Desert, engines roaring amid the red mesas and cottonwood gulleys. Sikh motorcyclist joins a cross-country ride against hate: 'I have to do this' 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Archival footage of the park’s 1971 inauguration shows the first lady disturbed by fence on the mesa and asking that it be taken down so she could hug and shake hands with people in Mexico. Opinion: A Trump-like border wall is about to be built — unless Biden stops it 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z One orphan well scheduled to be plugged rests on an arid mesa in Glen Canyon National Recreational Area in Utah. Pay and Plug: Federal Funds Spur Cleanup of Lost Oil Wells 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z The Chuska Mountains stretch northward, overlooking sandstone cliffs, mesas and canyons, in a landscape dotted with piñon pine, juniper and the fossilized remnants of long-gone oceans. This school district is ground zero for harsh discipline of Native students in New Mexico 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z This region of ski resorts, national forests and ranches, coal towns and desert mesas, has long bred low-key politicians. Notable uncalled House races include Boebert, Katie Porter 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The wrongful death lawsuit seeks $50 million in damages from the police department in Moab, a rural Utah city known for being an entryway to national parks full of red rock canyons and mesas. Gabby Petito’s family files wrongful death suit against Moab 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The terrain past Middleton erupted into small mesas of red earth and patches of pink mulla mulla flowers, then flattened out again as we neared Boulia — the last stop before the bitumen ends. Feral camels, deadly crashes: Can Australia tame its remote Outback Way? It is picking out a mesa in the near distance and seeing whether I can get to the top of it. In Utah, a canyoneering trip is a lesson in embracing limitations 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Here’s a roundup of waterfalls across the state, from Eastern Washington’s arid mesas to the Olympic Peninsula’s lush rainforests. Do go chasing waterfalls: Waterfall-spotting road trips in WA | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Below the mesa, the cocoa-colored Colorado River wove languidly through the Grand Valley. The Colorado River is in crisis, and it’s getting worse every day In the distance are dramatic cliffs that form the edge of mesa tops that are home to grasslands grazed by herds of elk and deer. Volcanic cones near peak sacred to tribes gain protection 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Most of the horses affected by the disease were removed last year from a swath of sage-dotted mesas in northwestern Colorado known as the West Douglas Herd Area, officials said. 95 Wild Horses Died. A Virus Is the Likely Cause, Officials Say. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z It is sitting on the mesa’s summit and straining to see whether there are any marks of humanity beyond the road to our campsite and our car and tent. In Utah, a canyoneering trip is a lesson in embracing limitations 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “The local conservation community has fought off 11 mining companies, and now we’re shifting our efforts to establishing permanent protections for the mesa.” Conservationists are a step closer to keeping a 'desert island in the sky' wild forever 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Clement loved the friendliness of her neighbors and getting to watch the sun rise over the scrubby mesa to her east and set behind the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the west. Investors Are Buying Mobile Home Parks. Residents Are Paying a Price. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z These large houses were built on top of mesas—flat-topped hills—or in shallow caves in the sheer walls of deep canyons. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Authorities gathered to mark the 13th anniversary of the discovery of a human bone by a woman who was walking her dog on the mesa not far from a new housing development. Authorities vow to never give up on unsolved killings 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z “They were talking about a freak on the mesa in New Mexico building buildings out of garbage. That was scandalous,” Reynolds said. These homes are off-grid and climate resilient. They’re also built out of trash. 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z “We’re considering many options,” she said, “including having the mesa designated a national monument before the next national election in 2024.” Conservationists are a step closer to keeping a 'desert island in the sky' wild forever 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante are both set amid sandstone canyons and vast mesas rich with cliff dwellings, rock art and dinosaur fossils. Biden expands Bears Ears and other national monuments, reversing Trump cuts 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Both monuments are set in a stunning desert landscape of sandstone canyons and vast mesas and are teeming with paleontological and cultural treasures, including remains of cliff dwellings, rock art and dinosaur fossils. Tribes want ‘immediate action’ to reverse Trump’s cut to Bears Ears National Monument 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The property includes rugged canyons, mesas covered by pinon and juniper woodlands, pockets of ponderosa pine trees and savannah-like grasslands. New Mexico wilderness area grows with large donation 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z But these volunteers and graduates, many of whom dream of their own Earthships, inevitably encounter that moment where hopes on the mesa collide with social realities. These homes are off-grid and climate resilient. They’re also built out of trash. 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z So it came as a stunning surprise two weeks ago when K2 abruptly announced it was suspending its exploratory drilling activities on the mesa due to a request from the U.S. Conservationists are a step closer to keeping a 'desert island in the sky' wild forever 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z With a boarding tuition of $68,150, its 150-acre campus is minutes away from Santa Barbara and boasts scenic views from its mesa perch. Sexual abuse allegations at elite Carpinteria boarding school prompt sheriff's investigation 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z When stumped with a Mars engineering question, Yazzie starts by picturing himself standing on the mesas of his youth. How to Imagine an Unfamiliar Place 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Holding up a tray of samples of crushed rock gathered from various depths beneath the surface of the mesa, Gibson smiled and said: “Most folks would say this looks like worthless gravel.” A corporation wants to mine for gold near Death Valley. Native tribes are fighting it 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The sun is just above the horizon, illuminating the silhouettes of sandstone mesas and power lines. A mass-casualty event every day But Pete Dronkers, an expert on the environmental impacts of large-scale mining, suggests that “it is not time to relax” because the company still controls hundreds of claims it acquired on the mesa since 2019. Conservationists are a step closer to keeping a 'desert island in the sky' wild forever 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z The land in the monument descends from high, pine-studded mesas to dry sandstone canyons laden with ancient native artifacts—rock art, shelters, potsherds, burial grounds—that are sacred to many southwestern tribes. Biden expected to reverse Trump’s order to shrink Utah national monuments 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z The desert of southeastern Utah is a wilderness of flat-topped mesas, jutting buttes and plunging canyons. A New Theory About the Monolith: We’re the Aliens 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The mesa is home to dozens of species of plants and animals despite scant rainfall, a dearth of natural springs and elevations ranging from 3,800 to 7,100 feet. A corporation wants to mine for gold near Death Valley. Native tribes are fighting it 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z On other hills and mesas metal monsters Proffer broken necks — threshing machines, a score Or more, tokens to combines bankers sponsor, Verses vs. Virus: What These Poets Laureate Are Thankful For 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z As envisioned by conservationists, such a designation would impose new rules and regulations that could eventually, as one mining opponent put it, “make it economically infeasible to pursue mining activities on the mesa.” Conservationists are a step closer to keeping a 'desert island in the sky' wild forever 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Set along the Rio Grande Valley and bordered by desert mesas on one side and mountains on the other, Albuquerque’s metropolitan area is home to about 600,000 people. Trump sends in agents as Albuquerque struggles with crime 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Colorado’s Grand Valley, marked by towering mesas, red sandstone spires and two intersecting rivers, didn’t used to be farm country. In Colorado’s climate-change hot spot, the West’s water is evaporating 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Among the species bound to the mesa’s crags, crevices and piñon pines are bighorn sheep, bobcats, coyotes, deer, desert night lizards, barn owls and Townsend’s long-eared bats. A corporation wants to mine for gold near Death Valley. Native tribes are fighting it 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The camera bump isn’t like a huge mesa on the back of the device, either. The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is Samsung’s new spec king 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z When Stephanie Bruce arrived at Buffalo Park, an expanse of meadow and grassland on top of a mesa, she felt pre-race nerves that she hadn’t experienced in months. With Pandemic Keeping Them Apart, Runners Embrace Virtual Races 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z But “it’s more of a plateau, or a mesa,” not the trough after a wave, said Caitlin Rivers, a disease researcher at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security. A ‘second wave’ of coronavirus cases? Not yet, experts say 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z The town of 40,000 sits in a county the size of Connecticut, a landscape of mesas, canyons and ancient kiva ruins. For a City Already in a ‘Death Spiral,’ What’s After Lockdown? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Roadblocks against nonessential visitors extend to villages atop mesas in Acoma Pueblo’s “sky city” and on the Hopi reservation in Arizona, which is encircled by the Navajo Nation. Small tribes seal borders, push testing to keep out virus 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z They constructed their government and religious buildings on top of a high mesa, now called Cerro Baúl, and erected canals and aqueducts that carried water much farther than any previously attempted in the valley. Shrewd water use helped South America’s first empire thrive. So why did a drought destroy it? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The territory, which is roughly the size of West Virginia, includes arid deserts and alpine forests with high plateaus, mesas and mountains reaching over 10,000ft in altitude. 'It warms the heart': Navajo mount grassroots effort to tackle coronavirus 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z At a recent community meeting, according to Hood, an official softened the agency’s previous opposition and suggested the mesa proposal was not off the table. A radioactive legacy haunts this Navajo village, which fears a fractured future 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z A squall tugged at sagebrush and sent dust devils spinning off the mesas. A Season on the Rez 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z For generations, the shield, considered the property of the entire tribe, remained safely in a home atop a 367-foot, sandstone mesa, tribal leaders say. Feds get Native American tribal shield after yearslong push 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z They drowned the same day during the years the family lived at the mining camp up on the mesa when Badoni’s father worked for Union Carbide. Mining camp alive in memories of Navajo uranium victims 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Their bodies were a few weeks later buried in shallow graves in the mesa northwest of Rio Rancho. Teen facing charges in 2018 slayings of 2 near Rio Rancho 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The skies, the mesas, the old growth forests, the seas, and everything else, all the richness, beauty, diversity of our ecosystem doesn’t belong in Donald Trump’s wallet. Protecting the children on a Trumpian planet 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z The city and two conservation groups just announced a $25-million plan to buy Fisher’s Peak, the iconic stair-stepped mesa that overlooks the city, as well as the 30 square miles of wilderness around it. His work in gender confirmation surgery brought renown to Trinidad, Colo. Where are the tributes? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The traditional village of Sky City, situated on the mesa, dates to 1150. Feds get Native American tribal shield after yearslong push 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z There were four or five mines in the same area, more farther down the mesa and others high up on a mesa across from the mining camp. Mining camp alive in memories of Navajo uranium victims 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z The proximity to the ocean and concerns about rising sea levels have some calling for moving the waste to a higher location — such as a mesa on the east side of Interstate 5. Finding a repository for San Onofre plant's nuclear waste is a difficult task 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The West is a saga of God and commerce, homesteaders and cowboys, politicians and opportunists, wagon trains and slaughtered natives, grizzlies and coyotes, and mesas, buttes and gorges. Review: The American West is dying. Christopher Ketcham's 'This Land' is a rallying cry to save it 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z “We're brainstorming about how Grand Junction has these great outdoor features and it's a little bit of a pattern with Colorado sports teams, but monuments and mesas don't really work for it.” Colorado Rockies minor league affiliate shoots down fishy nickname push 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Only family and close friends make the dusty 10-mile trek from the paved road, down dirt switchbacks lined by sandstone mesas, to his secluded home in northwestern New Mexico. The 2020 census is coming. Will Native Americans be counted? 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The mesa is often praised by hikers for its solitude and panoramic views. BLM seeks vandals who defaced famous archaeological site 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Life disconnected from the grid in the high desert town dotted with canyons and mesas was simple and joyful but also inconvenient, they said. No longer in the dark: Navajo Nation homes get electricity 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The region, northwest of the much-visited Four Corners, includes a stunning variety of topography — flat-topped mesas and expansive valleys, sloping igneous mountains and towering sandstone cliffs. What remains of Bears Ears At the same time, Mr. Luján was a prime mover in creating Petroglyphs National Monument, on the rugged volcanic mesa located west of Albuquerque, to protect thousands of prehistoric and historic petroglyphs. Manuel Luján Jr., N.M. congressman and secretary of the interior, dies at 90 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Last summer, I took a trip to the Southwest, a part of the country known for the bold reds of its adobe buildings, its mesas, its sunsets, its sands and cliffs, its everything. Letter of Recommendation: Color Blind Pal 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Police say a woman walking her dog reported finding what appeared to be a femur on the mesa. New Mexico ceremony marks ‘horrible’ discovery of bodies 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z A few hours west, the snowy mesas of Colorado national monument are locked behind metal gates. 'Appalling' toilets and rule-breaking as US shutdown hits national parks 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Early farmers first lived in rock structures and later moved to mesa tops. What remains of Bears Ears Yellowman and other Native Americans here wonder about what lies ahead: Will their grandchildren gather juniper and pine along the red rock mesas? ‘This is our land’: Native Americans see Trump’s move to reduce Bears Ears monument as an assault on their culture 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z He built guest houses that now rent out to visitors from around the world, who enjoy sweeping views of flat-topped mesas and desert shrubs. Lost lands? The American wilderness at risk in the Trump era 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z By day, we drove around admiring the breathtaking mesas, millions of years old, including the local favorite, Mittens, two striking formations that look like shale and sandstone mittens. Opinion | Of Monuments, Arguments, Vampires and Thanksgiving 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z That process is now complete, leading to the artificial mesa being leveled by earthmovers. Work picks up in South Texas for SpaceX launch projects 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Population declined rapidly, with limited farming on mesas and in valleys. What remains of Bears Ears They are a place of great beauty, but the landscape, with its arid, lurching crags, its umber mesas, looks like a place that has seen hellfire. How the War in Yemen Became a Bloody Stalemate — and the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in the World 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z She spent summers in the tiny town of Mesita on the Laguna Pueblo, about 45 miles west of Albuquerque, climbing the mesas and swimming in the lake. Native American women candidates seek historic wins in November 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The rocks, exposed on the flanks of mesas, include a layer of carbonate deposits that many scientists believe were formed by underground mineral springs. NASA's next Mars rover could explore former mineral springs and a fossil river delta 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z An affidavit produced by the tribe alleges the shield was taken from a home in the pueblo’s village atop a mesa west of Albuquerque. Feds: US tribal items sold at Paris auction houses declines 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Early farmers first lived in rock structures and later moved to mesa tops. What remains of Bears Ears An affidavit produced by the tribe alleges the shield was taken from a home in the pueblo’s village atop a mesa west of Albuquerque. Feds: US tribal items sold at Paris auction houses declines 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Part of Monge’s point is that motivations for violence are less important than how we respond to it; on Germán’s mesa, bloodshed is just part of the general atmosphere. Lyrical and violent, 'The Arid Sky' Mexican novelist Emiliano Monge is a striking desert noir 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z As the aircraft glides over sloping mesas with snow-dusted mountains, the land below resembles a vintage pioneer landscape. A Trump Oil Boom Could Transform This Rocky Mountain Landscape 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z For eight seconds, an eerie orange glow lit up the mesas and canyons of western Colorado with the intensity of the full Moon. The unlikely story of the meteorite feud that ended up a fugitive from the law 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Population declined rapidly, with limited farming on mesas and in valleys. What remains of Bears Ears The sprawling forest, known for its scenic canyons, mesas and mountain peaks, spans six counties in New Mexico, which is in the grip of either extreme or exceptional drought conditions, according to the U.S. New Mexico closes national forest to public due to drought, fire risk 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Traveling north on 89A, you’ll pass through the Navajo Nation and enjoy sweeping views of the Painted Desert and Hopi mesas, remnants of the area’s volcanic past. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Buzzing around Medford, he regularly notices the Table Rocks, the Rogue Valley’s signature mesas looking over him. All-terrain wheelchair bringing Medford man outdoors 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The entrance is through a sandstone sculptural exterior evoking mesas of the American Southwest. Icons of American West on display in new museum _ in Florida 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Early farmers first lived in rock structures and later moved to mesa tops. What remains of Bears Ears In northwestern New Mexico, crews used bulldozers and burnout operations to build lines around a fire to keep it on mesa and away from a subdivision northwest of Grants. Wildfires continue to burn in New Mexico; several homes lost 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z I could feel Stephen Miller’s goose bumps all the way out on the mesa where the eight sections of the “beautiful wall” stand, garbage collecting around them. Opinion | Looking at Trump’s ‘Beautiful Wall’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z She wanted nothing more than to return to her family’s home amid mesas on a reservation north of Albuquerque, and to stay clean after recovering from a heroin addiction. Hundreds of New Mexico inmates held past parole date 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The research was conducted at the Bureau of Land Management's Rattlesnake Canyon Habitat Management Area, a sun-drenched expanse of sage-brush-covered mesas and steep canyons forested with juniper and pinyon pine. Some birds are so stressed by noise pollution it looks like they have PTSD 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Population declined rapidly, with limited farming on mesas and in valleys. What remains of Bears Ears “Back then, we didn’t know it was dangerous — nobody told us,” Mr. Holiday said, as he pointed to the gashes of discolored rocks that mark where the old uranium mines cut into the region’s mesas. Uranium Miners Pushed Hard for a Comeback. They Got Their Wish. 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The research was conducted at the Bureau of Land Management’s Rattlesnake Canyon Habitat Management Area, a sun-drenched expanse of sage-brush-covered mesas and steep canyons forested with juniper and pinyon pine. Some birds are so stressed by noise pollution it looks like they have PTSD 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z “We’re on a mesa in the foothills and we have two drainages on either side of us,” Headmaster Benjamin D. Williams IV said. California storm follows fires, bringing new round of danger 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Two people were killed Friday evening in a four-vehicle wreck that closed most lanes of the northbound 405 Freeway near Harbor Boulevard in Costa mesa, the California Highway Patrol said. 2 people killed in accident on 405 Freeway in Costa Mesa 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z These are people with a direct geographic and temporal link to these buttes and mesas, to say nothing of their spiritual connection. Trump's cuts to national monuments are an assault on our humanity – fight them 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z No. Much of the mesas, canyons and mountains of Bears Ears is sacred to Native American tribes, including the Navajo, Zuni, Ute Mountain and Hopi. Trump undercuts Obama and Clinton legacies in withdrawal of Utah wilderness protections 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Sun-scorched desert mesa, 140 miles of it, lies between Lake Powell, the nation’s second-largest reservoir, and Utah’s Washington County, one of America’s driest metropolitan regions. A fast-growing Utah desert county plans a massive water pipeline. But is it really needed? 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Five Native American tribes proposed establishing Bears Ears to protect 100,000 historic and cultural sites on the high mesa and deep canyons of southeast Utah. Trump plans big cuts in Utah's National Monument boundaries 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z It is hallowed ground for the Navajo and other Native American tribes whose ancestors scaled cliffs to build stone settlements on ledges and alcoves beneath trackless mesas. Native Americans rewrote the playbook for preserving public land — and Trump is trying to erase it – Los Angeles Times 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z An archaeologist, his back to the stiff breeze, wades through dry cheatgrass atop a tall mesa, its sheer walls cleaved from ancient bedrock by prehistoric floodwaters. Site unseen: Floodwaters buried a treasure trove at Marmes Rockshelter 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Miles of temporary chain-link fencing surround a huge section of the mesa, essentially blocking foot access from the north and west. Border wall prep continues but start date still secret 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z He went there to visit Bears Ears national monument, 1.3m-acre expanse of canyons, mesas and Native American artifacts that was designated by Barack Obama towards the end of his second term. US public lands: 'handful' of sites could lose protections as review ends 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The town sits on a plain between a mesa and a ridge, next to a border fence still under construction. Driving the Most Controversial Strip of Land in Trump's America 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z San Juan County’s western mesas and canyons, home to the distinctive rock formations known as Bears Ears, are where the Navajo believe their people rose from the earth. Native Americans rewrote the playbook for preserving public land — and Trump is trying to erase it – Los Angeles Times 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z He returned home with tales of a towering, inaccessible mesa teeming with wildlife and irrigated by secret waterfalls and crystalline rivers. Wild Amazon faces destruction as Brazil’s farmers and loggers target national park 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z For hundreds of generations, native peoples lived in the surrounding deep sandstone canyons, desert mesas…one of the densest and most significant cultural landscapes in the United States.” 'Those are our Eiffel Towers, our pyramids': Why Standing Rock is about much more than oil 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z They are building a hogan atop a mesa with a Navajo name that they say is too long to translate into English. For Navajo Team, a Season of Change and Challenge 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z If you click now on the company’s main website, one of the first images that pops up is a photo of the area’s red-rock mesas, superimposed with a message, “Defend Bears Ears.” Outdoors industry mobilizes hikers in multimillion-dollar battle over public lands 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The warm colors radiate from the canvas like sunlight reflecting from the mesas. New exhibit explores rural influence on modern American art 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The area’s wide-open skies, framed by gently sloping mesas giving way to broad plains, seemed a proper setting for what would become archetypal Western stories about hard men amid the boundless American wilderness. The celluloid legacy of Las Vegas, NM 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The city, perched on a mesa east of the Balboa Peninsula, had become a hot spot for new dense single-family, town home and apartment communities. One solution to Southern California's housing crisis: building in the region's nooks and crannies 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z The crash killed Iraan’s booster club president, left the chaperone for the varsity cheerleader squad hospitalized with multiple fractures and shocked a small, close-knit community located among the mesas and oil fields of West Texas. Bereaved Texas Town Finds Comfort in a State High School Title Game 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z On a mesa behind the stadium, a giant “I” shone in red lights. A Stirring Victory for a Texas High School. Then the Unthinkable. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Often he will ride his bike around the surrounding mesas for half a day, camera in hand, as he looks for something to paint, even if it’s just the patterns created by cracking mud. At 93, local artist is still painting, protesting 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z From eight thousand feet, the mesa spreads like buttercream, riffled with small ranges down its sides. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Island in the Sky is a mesa on sheer sandstone cliffs with spectacular views. The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Here in the rural American West, that connection to the land is still very much alive, especially for the cultures that are inextricably linked to these sandstone mesas and high alpine meadows. Robert Redford: Obama Must Protect Sacred Utah Land 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The shield was one of seven taken from Pueblo of Acoma, a centuries-old village atop a mesa southwest of Albuquerque, federal authorities said in a complaint filed last week in federal court. US authorities seek warrant for tribal shield in Paris 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z “The proposed 1.9 million acre monument is a landscape of deep, carved canyons, long mesas, inspiring arches, and arresting red rock formations,” explains the Inter-Tribal Coalition’s proposal. War on federal parks: Radicalized Republicans try prevent turning Bears Ears in Utah into a national monument 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Then the plane banked, and suddenly it appeared, two black, shadowed depths feeding into a chasm where the side of the mesa falls away toward the valley floor. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The Needles district offers variegated spires of cedar mesa sandstone. The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Peacock said the monument reminds him of the importance of his home in the “sky city,” a collection of Acoma homes built atop a mesa. Part-Time Jobs and Thrift: How Unpaid Interns in D.C. Get By 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z So a little more than 10 years ago he planted a hilltop mesa at Bien Nacido Vineyards, in Santa Barbara County. Roussanne, a Rhône Valley white wine that's both maddening and majestic 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z And for generations, the sacred object did just that, remaining safely in a home atop a mesa. Tribes hail shield’s halted sale; collectors ask what’s next 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Two hours from Las Vegas, overlooking the Virgin River, the sculpture consists of two deep rectilinear cuts across the top of a convex mesa, or, as Heizer puts it, a two-hundred-and-forty-thousand-ton displacement. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “The cover has photos of each author, plus a lovely one of mesas at sunset.” ‘Angela’s Ashes’ to ashes, dust jackets to dust: Readers share their book habits 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The houses would be moved off the prominent ridgeline, clustered on the mesa and none would be bigger than 10,000 square feet. U2's The Edge and his decade-long fight to build on a pristine Malibu hillside 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Related: Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art review – a story of artist superheroes Somewhere in the deserts of New Mexico, a nail is embedded into a type of flat-topped mountain known as a mesa. Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The pueblo’s investigation determined the shield was stolen from the mesa in the 1970s, with the granddaughter of the man tasked with caring for it testifying it was swiped from her family’s home. Tribes hail shield’s halted sale; collectors ask what’s next 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z As I scanned the khaki-colored top of the mesa, my eye was drawn to the muddy flush of the Virgin River, heading toward the chalky turquoise puddle of Lake Mead. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z In 2012, the March of Dimes Foundation, the American Academy of Pediatrics and others petitioned the FDA to extend voluntary fortification of corn mesa flour. Makers of Corn Mesa Flour Can Add Folic Acid 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z A forest of green trees rolls eastward from the Cascades before stopping dead at the beginning of the high desert, where a rolling brown landscape of buttes, mesas and canyons extends to the horizon. Oregon mountaintop lookout is a journey back in time 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Ross took 400 acres in the end – 50 for Star Axis and 350 for the mesa on which his house is situated, which he shares with his wife, the artist Jill O’Bryan. Deserts and dynamite: my journey to the cosmic heart of land art 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z But for the coalition of tribes and nature advocates seeking preservation, a new national monument here would preserve a stretch of mountains, mesas and canyons six times the size of Los Angeles. Remote Utah Enclave Becomes New Battleground Over Reach of U.S. Control 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Mar Vista Hill: Towering 200 feet above the basin, this historic mesa boasts killer ocean, city and mountain views. Mar Vista: From lima beans to Westside hot spot 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The Arikaree Breaks is a rugged landscape of canyons, caves, valleys, creeks and mesas in Kansas’ far northwestern corner. Festival celebrating Kansas to take road trip in 2018 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z That transfer never happened, so now, Republicans on a state land commission are pressing for a $14 million lawsuit to claim 31.2 million federal acres of canyons, scrub desert and rolling mesas. The Larger, but Quieter Than Bundy, Push to Take Over Federal Land 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The fossil site to which Dr. Schumacher led the volunteers is just one of many in the Morrison Formation, layers of rock lining 100-foot-tall mesas alongside the canyon. Amateur Sleuths on the Dinosaur Trail 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Aside from the picture-worthy mesas, glimpses of roadrunners and a string of Rock Shops, the border zone is the thing you pass through when you leave a day of family-fun in Big Bend. I was locked up because I went to a Texas national park without my papers | Lise Ragbir 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Nuvayokva, a 36-year-old who smiles his way through nearly everything, wore running shoes and jogged down through the broken edges of the mesa. Two Hopi Traditions: Running and Winning 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z He chose the middle of February as the month somewhat arbitrarily, because dates were uncertain where he was born on top of a rocky mesa in western New Mexico. Why Casinos Are a Godsend For Native Americans 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The path of the padres exits the beach and follows an old Chumash Indian trail atop the mesa. The Walker and the Saint 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Los Alamos sits at an elevation of 7,300 feet on a finger mesa extending from mountains that frame an ancient caldera. Los Alamos marks 70 years since Trinity test gave us the bomb 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Southern Utah is national park country—five parks spread across scenic red rock canyons and picturesque mesas. Gap Widens Between U.S. Climate Policy and Coal Leasing 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z In the San Juan basin in the northern part of the state, oil and gas installations sprawl across 10,000 square miles of mesa, canyon and desert plain. On climate change, Hispanic Catholics hear pope's message – and it's personal 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Bellowing across the mesa, along the often-muddy trail and up through the ponderosa pine, some 70 pairs of cows with their calves went rumbling up Shanahan Ridge on Tuesday morning. Boulder cattle get a moo-ve on in push to tame oatgrass 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Ross Ufberg Ron and I spent a good chunk of the morning drive listening to music as we rolled through New Mexico and Arizona, admiring the mesas. Does it really take a special breed to be a truck driving man? We find out 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z It follows the river past squat mesas and a weathered wall of spindly red pinnacles called the Fisher Towers, then descends into a sandstone gorge that resembles a preliminary, reduced-scale draft of the Grand Canyon. The Disappearing Colorado River 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z He tweeted: "My suspension is finally up! Time to get back in the pool and race again! Looking forward to #mesa!!" Phelps returns after drink-drive ban 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The mesa around Rio Rancho were featured in many Breaking Bad scenes and montages. In The Steps Of Walter White And Saul Goodman (Plus Other Desert Delights): Albuquerque, New Mexico 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Los Alamos, for example, was under orders from New Mexico to remove thousands of barrels of toxic waste from outdoor storage on a mesa before wildfire season peaked last summer. Things to know about the federal government's nuke dump 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Highway 160 and riding together to sites on the mesa. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Today, the nearby mesas have one of the world’s largest wind farms, generating abundant electricity and giving local officials millions of dollars in tax revenue to put toward new development. Texas city that prepared for oil boom now waits for bust 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z "They were weird excavations on the mesa not caused by erosion or weather," said Zoellner, an author and former journalist. Utah uranium mine is more of a bad memory than a historic site for many 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Islamic State remains formidable to the east, controlling a strategic mesa. Kurds say U.S.-led airstrikes halting Islamic State advance on Kobani 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z We loaded into helicopters that flew us up onto a mesa where a wildfire burned through the piñon juniper. I Was an Elite Female Firefighter 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The idea of a tram up the side of the mesa is far-fetched and impractical, and it is not what Mesa Verde needs. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z On the red mesas at the western edge of the reservation, Jack Begay, 56, bemoaned the shrinking population of Navajo speakers like himself. Presidential Candidate in Navajo Nation Protests a Language Requirement 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Ranch workers found the wreckage on the rocky, northern side of a mesa after authorities called and asked them to look around the area. 3 killed in New Mexico helicopter crash identified 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z A mesa, belonging to the Navajo Indian Reservation, is currently a hub of construction, according to the Los Angeles Times. Is the Grand Canyon doomed? The national park faces its biggest threat in 95 years 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Marsh's creations include a mesa painted to look as if it were floating and a football field-sized pool table hidden in the Panhandle terrain that only could be seen from the air. Stanley Marsh, Creator of ‘Cadillac Ranch,’ Dies 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Marsh’s creations include a mesa painted to look as if it were floating and a football field-sized pool table hidden in the Panhandle terrain that only could be seen from the air. Stanley Marsh 3, creator of ‘Cadillac Ranch,’ dies 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z She cherishes the annual ritual: Sipping the whiskey she packs in a cooler, and tracing the creeks and mesas that whiz by with a map she brings on each trip. Small Towns in Southwest Fear Loss of Cherished Train Line 2014-02-18T00:49:11Z I was very young, probably no older than 7 or 8, and we drove through a black canyon gashed by men’s machines in the thick seams of coal that made up the mesa. Geologists Have an Incentive to be Naughty 2013-12-19T18:45:37.107Z I had my sleeping bag on the side of the mesa, and when it started to look like rain he said I was welcome to stay at his place. Making It Last: First a Commune, Then a Church, but Always a Commitment 2013-12-06T11:54:13Z Here amid the hills and mesas that painter Georgia O'Keeffe made famous, these elders presented a different palette with which to look at environmental woes. Indigenous Elders Abandon Faith in UN Climate Talks 2013-11-12T18:45:00.523Z A Gifted Proselytizer In the early 1850s, Jeremy Johnson’s great-great-grandfather, a sawmill operator named Joel Hills Johnson, helped settle the desolate territory of southern Utah, a landscape of dramatic red sandstone canyons and mesas. In Utah, a Local Hero Accused 2013-06-15T19:15:59Z Today, in contrast, the privately-funded, non-profit observatory has 22 full-time research astronomers, but does most of its observing on four telescopes on Anderson mesa, a few miles east of town. Pluto, Mars, Planet X, Dancer, Prancer, and Blitzen: Christmas Postcard From Flagstaff's Lowell Observatory 2012-12-25T01:32:41Z At some point, the people who became the Pueblos moved up steep hills toward the mesa top. Obama gives Chimney Rock a National Monument designation 2012-09-23T23:24:00Z With their natural food sources ruined, animals are descending from mountains and mesas, desperate to eat whatever they can find before the winter freeze comes. Their Food Scarce From Drought, Animals Dine in Town 2012-09-07T00:24:56Z All through the billiard-green mesas leading up to the mountains are signs of the boom. Montana Tribe Divided on Tapping Oil-Rich Land 2012-08-16T02:23:08Z To the north is a third type of terrain riddled with buttes, mesas and pits. Mars rover Curiosity sends home first color photo 2012-08-08T00:26:02Z In addition to operating four small research telescopes at the mesa, the observatory is also in partnership with the U.S. Pluto, Mars, Planet X, Dancer, Prancer, and Blitzen: Christmas Postcard From Flagstaff's Lowell Observatory 2012-12-25T01:32:41Z It emerged atop the huge mesa 45 minutes later with the occasional help of ropes and bolts embedded in the rock. BASE Jumpers Double the Dare 2012-06-15T15:18:18Z In the distance, the fields abruptly end as limestone and golden mesas jut skyward. Relax and Go Tubing 2012-06-11T17:20:04.853Z Look to San Diego’s wireless mesas and ’s silicon valleys. Tricorder Update -- Social Medicine is the Next Big Thing After Social Media 2012-05-21T13:46:38Z Millions of bright stars shone serenely through the clear Arizona night, shedding their soft white light on the great arid plains and the mysterious mesas and mighty mountains. Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends 2012-04-14T02:00:22.840Z "Very common on all mesas and foot-hills of Western and Southern Texas." Texas Honey Plants 2012-04-04T02:00:58.927Z The onetime mine, atop a 1,000-foot mesa, provides a sweeping panorama of the red valley below. Uranium Mines Dot Navajo Land, Neglected and Still Perilous 2012-03-31T17:11:23Z At any rate, before him stand ridges and knolls of precisely the shape he had looked at on first scaling the mesa. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z Their villages are perched upon the summits of mesas, from 400 to 600 feet in height. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians 2012-03-11T03:00:11.673Z A layer of loess overlays the bedrock of the flat mesa tops in the Four Corners area. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Growing along sandy stretches, or upon open mesas by the seashore, we may find the showy blossoms of the cream-colored wall-flower from February to May. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Finally, Pinar del Rio is dominated by a prominent mountain range and by outlying piedmont hills and mesas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z At every point one finds steep alluvial bluffs or rounded hills and ridges, with wide arid mesas above and beyond that are of dull colors and without variety. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z They possess considerable flocks of goats and sheep, which are secured every night in pens along the sides and upon the summits of the mesa, as shown in No. 987. Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians 2012-03-11T03:00:11.673Z Elevations in the park range from 8,500 feet at Park Point to about 6,500 feet at the southern ends of the mesas. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z This low shrub is somewhat plentiful upon the mesas of the south. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z He stood still, alone on the high stretches of moonlit mesa and looked up at the measureless, brilliant spaces above him. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z They would figure on first reclaiming all the mesa land on which the water could in this way be used, and then they would build pumping plants with which to irrigate the more elevated lands. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Earl slept at his ranch, a few miles away on the mesa. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The Mesa Verde land mass is the remnant of a plateau that erosion has dissected into a series of long, narrow mesas, joined at their northern ends, but otherwise separated by deep canyons. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z This is found at San Diego, upon the mesas in midspring, growing abundantly in spots which, earlier in the season, have been mud-holes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z "Oh, we'll get 'em, all right—at th' mesa," Red rejoined. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z They would reclaim the mesa land first because every acre of mesa land that was reclaimed would serve as a sponge to soak up the flood water. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Backpack camping will be allowed on mesa tops but not in canyons. After fire and floods, Bandelier officials reopen backcountry trails for hiking 2011-11-25T15:03:12Z Because of the great differences in elevation between the northern and southern ends of the mesas, differences in climate are appreciable at these locations. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z The large yellow lupine is a common plant upon our wind-swept mesas, growing in sandy soil. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z On the west side of the mesa, back in the chaparral and out of sight of the rustlers, Pie Willis lay face down in the sand, quiet. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Here the surface of the country lies from 5000 to 9000 ft. above sea-level, being a tableland region of buttes and mesas diversified by lava intrusions, flows and cinder cones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The talk drifted to Indians in general, Esther Bright asking many questions, indicating on her part a deep and growing interest in these native lords of the valleys and mesas. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z The difference in precipitation and the extremes in weather between the northern and southern ends of the mesas affect the distribution of plants and animals. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Their slender wands, covered with magnificent large blossoms, rise abundantly on every side upon some of the mesas of our seashore, making charming flower-gardens upon the plains. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z You can hold th' mesa for a month. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z A desert tree, its foliage is pale gray-green, harmonizing with the arid mesas and low mountain slopes, where it is found. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z During the ride of the afternoon, as the company had wound around the foothills, they had seen great herds of cattle, thousands of cattle, on the hills and mesas. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Two miles south of the preceding site, much of the mesa is a wide expanse of exposed bedrock, which extends approximately 100 feet inward from the edges of the mesa. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z In the south it rears its tall stems upon open mesas, unprotected by the shelter of friendly tree or shrub, and in some localities it makes itself at home in bogs. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z He dropped and began to crawl aimlessly about, a good target for the eager rifles on the mesa. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Mountain slopes, high mesas, dry canyon sides, even swamps, if they occur at elevations above twenty-five hundred feet, furnish suitable habitats for this amazing species, in some of its varying forms. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Couldn't she spend the summer in Arizona, and they would camp on one of the forest mesas, a party of them? The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z The elevations concerned are typical of the middle parts of mesas throughout the park. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z It is specially abundant all over the mesas by the seashore, near San Diego. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z But you can't hit th' mesa with it over six hundred. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The reclusive Heizer is perhaps best known for “Double Negative,” the 1,500-foot-long land sculpture he cut into a desert mesa in a remote section of southern Nevada. Earth artist Michael Heizer?s 340-ton boulder work expected to get things rocking at LA museum 2011-10-03T21:10:43Z The sunset was one of unusual splendor, the glory of color falling over the mesa, and the mountain peaks that loomed up far away. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z This area differs from the trapping area south of Far View Ruins and the one on Morfield Ridge in being wider and on the western side of the mesa. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Her grandsons keep her supplied with the bulbs, which they dig by the sackful from the neighboring hill-slopes and mesas. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z At the point where the slanting ledge met the top of the mesa was a hut built of stones and adobe, its rear wall being part of a projecting wall of rock. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Sana'a is a sprawling city of two million whose geography is delineated by towering sun-scoured mesas. Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh will take time with power transition 2011-09-29T11:30:00Z A short drive up a rocky way brought them to a vast mesa. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z Trees are lacking on this part of the mesa, except on the canyon slopes, where Quercus gambelii forms an almost impenetrable barrier. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z We have seen mesas covered with the bushes, which have much the same spreading habit as the white marguerite of the garden. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The top of the mesa was about eight acres in extent and was rocky and uneven, cut by several half-filled fissures which did not show on the walls. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder Is merely a far-off temple where the sleepy sun is burning Its altar-fires of pinyon and of toyon for the day. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z "You don't call a blanket and cushion on a mesa a shakedown, do you?" The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z The trapping area was a wide, grassy meadow, three and a half miles south of the northern end of the mesa. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Upon the mesas of the south we often see a shrubby member of the mallow family, with long, wandlike branches ornamented with closely set, pink flowers, of delicate texture and pleasant perfume. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Manuel slouched away and began to climb the slanting path up the mesa. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z And now the showers Surround the mesa like a troop of silver dancers: Shaking their rattles, stamping, chanting, roaring, Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z A trenched peniplane of greater relief and altitude than the Colorado Piedmont, it is characterized by high mesas, extensive dissected lava-capped plateaus, deep canyons, and mountains of volcanic origin. Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado 2011-09-06T02:00:10.127Z Bobcat Canyon, a large secondary canyon on the eastern side of Wetherill Mesa, is a major drainage for much of the mesa at its widest part. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z I once saw a deep blue band upon a mesa near San Diego, which vied in richness with the ultramarine of the sea just beyond. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z He told his satellite what had occurred in the valley, gave him a message for Shaw, who was now on the mesa, and cantered on to tell Meeker his version of the morning's happenings. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The flint-paved mesas wore down the hoofs of his Indian ponies so that it became necessary to protect them with shoes of buffalo hide. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The granite core of the country crops out all along in low broken hills, the intervening mesas consisting of granite sand and gravel, and bearing beside the pines a good deal of brush. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The forest on the southern end of the mesas consists of widely-spaced trees, which reflect the low amounts of precipitation at these lower elevations. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Nestling amid the grasses on many a moist mesa by the sea, the modest flowers of the dog-violet may be found at almost any time of year. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Buck had asked him to go with them because he wished to have his opinion as to the possibility of getting a rope up the mesa wall. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z It was not until half an hour later, when we paused for rest on the mesa rim, that Hope's drawling voice broke the silence that had held between us. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The flames of the Las Conchas fire burned across mesa tops and down canyons dotted with hundreds of archaeological sites. Singed by a massive NM fire, Bandelier National Monument braces for different future 2011-07-29T07:58:43Z Juniper trees are more numerous than pinyons, and both species are stunted in comparison to trees farther north on the mesa. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z The remaining half, also on foot, was to cross at once on the railroad trestle, and to make its approach by way of the wagon road skirting the mesa foot. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z When they came opposite the rock which had sheltered Johnny they sortied to see if that part of the mesa was guarded, but there was no sign of life upon it. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Here the landscape changes to mesas and gulches. Cheap motels 2011-07-28T13:22:58Z From these lowlands, the Qaddafi forces are able to fire at population centers, like Nalut, that lie close enough to mesa edges to be within range of Grad rockets or artillery pieces. At War: In Libya's West, Signs of Growing Frustration With NATO 2011-07-25T00:04:00Z The pinyon-juniper woodland surrounding this site resembles much of the woodland on the middle part of the mesa. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z While Harding was counting his men and appointing his lieutenants an automobile rolled silently down the mesa road from the north and came to a stand among the horses. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Still the pair on the mesa top swayed back and forth, this way and that, bending, twisting, and Red imagined he could hear their labored breathing. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z You've sizzled by mountain and mesa and plain Over campfires of sagebrush and oak; The breezes that blow from the Platte to the main Have carried your savory smoke. Sun and Saddle Leather Including Grass Grown Trails and New Poems 2011-07-19T02:00:23.943Z Libya’s western mountainous region is in many ways a series of large, table-top mesas running generally east and west. At War: In Libya's West, Signs of Growing Frustration With NATO 2011-07-25T00:04:00Z Reradiation of energy is restricted to ground level, and traces of hygrothermographs in standard Weather Bureau shelters, approximately four feet above the ground surface, at other sites on the mesa top did not record it. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z The World War II Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bomb, and workers from the era dumped hazardous and radioactive waste in trenches along six acres atop the mesa where the town sits. Wildfire near NM nuclear lab pushes into canyon that descends into town; fire crews hopeful 2011-07-01T02:23:31Z Time passed slowly and as the Mexican was about to return to the fire he chanced to glance across the mesa along a moon-lighted path and stiffened at what he saw. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Affable and presentable, with hangdog eyes and a vast mesa of graying hair, the new mayor proved a natural politician. A City?s Wrenching Budget Choices 2011-07-05T02:53:57Z On the mesa brown and yellow vineyards lay despoiled of crops lately pressed into vintage or dried into raisins. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z Species of mammals, plants, and reptiles are most numerous on the middle parts of the mesas, as also are cliff-dwellings, surface sites, and farming terraces of the prehistoric Indians. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Behind them lay the desert maze, to the right and left, mountain ranges, high plateaux, mesas and buttes. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z Hesitating a moment he suddenly decided that he would be better off if he put a good distance between himself and the mesa, and ran on again, eager to gain the shelter of the chaparral. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Warm Springs lies at the bottom of a gash in the face of the mesa, and the cow-trails lead to it for miles. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z To peer at life below the mesa was an opportunity, and the rancher's young wife threw aside a fresh gingham apron and entered the car. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z The gradually tapering southwestern slope of the hill extends southward for one mile and is bisected by the main highway, which runs the length of the mesa top. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Below him lay a broad, open mesa, its upper end within a stone's throw of where he stood. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z It was disconcerting to find that what had been regarded as the hardest part of the whole affair, the gaining of the mesa top, was the easiest. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Consequently the nearby grass is fed down to the roots, and the remuda had to be held up on the high mesa. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z When we are stretched on a sunny mesa where the air quivers with heat, if you feel the need of more light, I promise to chant your song. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The mesa top drains southeast into a pour-off at the head of Bobcat Canyon. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z We came on them unawares, going up from a wide valley to a mesa or table land, and they were grazing some three or four hundred yards from the edge of the mesa. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z The leader returned, heralded by singing and swearing, and pushed Frisco over the mesa top to sprawl full-length on the ground. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Dixie was better than most, for she had ridden those rough mesas before and could drift off a ridge like a blacktail. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z The mesa verde, or green mesa, so-called because its juniper and pi�on trees give it a verdant tone, is 15 miles long by 8 miles wide. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z Nocturnal cold air flows from the surrounding mesa top to lower elevations. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z When we came to the edge of the mesa again they had crossed a wide valley and were going up on another mesa several miles away still at full speed. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z Along the narrow trail up the mesa's face a man toiled heavily and it was not long before Doc Riley opened fire from the rear. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z It is a country of desert, of flat-topped mesas, of sharp-pinnacled crests, of broad valleys, and deep and narrow cañons. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z The canyons which seam the mesa, all of which lead toward the distant Mancos River, are, in many cases, replicas of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z Beyond the stream was stretching mesa, quiet and flat and smooth looking in the crystal distance, dotted with pine, shimmering under the heat. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z The following morning I had taken my gun and gone ahead a mile or so and came down off the mesa and found a pony in the valley below. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z "They ain't laughing, not a bit of it—an' they won't even be able to swear after I get out to th' mesa," Red asserted. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z A shrill trill startled both; centered Pape’s attention on the brush that edged the mesa to his right. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The northern edge of the mesa terminates in a precipitous bluff, averaging 2,000 feet above the Montezuma Valley. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z The way was ever upward, and as they progressed more of the country beyond the river spread out to their view, mesas and mountains stretching away to infinite distance, it seemed. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z One by one the formidable mesas of calculations, conjugations, argumentations, fell below her feet, and Rose grew tall in intellectual grace. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z "Of all th' locoed layouts I ever run up against this here mesa top takes th' prize," he finished in disgust. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z At that, he had not prepared her—indeed, was far from prepared himself—for what they soon saw from cover at the edge of the mesa. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Southward numerous deep canyons, in which the more important cliff dwellings are found, subdivide the Mesa Verde into many long, narrow tonguelike mesas. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z But at length they accomplish it, arriving on the mesas outer edge, close to that of the cliff. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z She would come walking across the mesa with a great cone-shaped carrier basket heaped with brushwood on her shoulders, stooping under it and easing the weight by a buckskin band about her forehead. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Skinny laughed and turned to watch the mesa, from which lead was coming. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The ground rose, and when they reached the top of a flat mesa he killed the engine. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z Surface ruins of a different type are widely distributed over the narrow mesas separating the numerous canyons. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z For they are the eyes of his own master, Henry Tresillian, standing on the mesa’s summit behind a screening tree. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Alan could feel the play of her strong shoulders as they went out across the lower mesa and began to climb the hills. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Shaw strode to the edge of the mesa and looked down, seeing Nevada sitting quietly on a horse and looking up at him. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z And when we gets reaching out over the mesa, you two boys act tender with them boxes! The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z At the south end of the cave a trail, consisting of small toeholds cut in the cliff, led to the mesa top above. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z They upon the mesa are not witnesses to this odd ceremony, only a portion of the camp being within their view. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z "They cannot hurt you," said his mother; "it is only the little gray beasts that you see trotting about the mesa of afternoons; hear them now." The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Skinny Thompson and Pete Wilson, having grown restless, were encircling the mesa by keeping inside the chaparral and came opposite the pinnacle about the time Johnny discovered his reptilian neighbors. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Barely skimming the outlying streets of Albuquerque, Mrs. Crump avoided the better-known highway beside the railroad and took the shorter but deserted road that leads south over the mesa to Becker. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The floor of the cave is elevated about 200 feet above the bottom of the canyon and is just under the rim of the mesa. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z Likely we’ll have to tramp a good way before sighting any; the report of our guns will have frighted both birds and beasts, and sent all to the farthest side of the mesa. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Then they went out by the mesa trail, where the sage showed duskily under a thin rim of moon. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z "On a mesa, shore!" whispered Elder to Lewis. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z What with walks over the mesa, rides and picnics up the canyon, music of evenings, and Sunday afternoon calls, Lucy was leading a gay life, and Louise, as her chaperon, a busy one. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Fortunately, the configuration of the cliffs above the ruin makes it possible to get a fine bird's-eye view from the rim of the mesa. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z Impossible to depict the feelings of those on the mesa, above all, the ones who have been standing on the ledges to await the result. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z A strong wind drove gustily across the mesa and laid hold of the corners of the roof. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z From the mesa came the faint crackling of rifle fire and clouds of smoke hovered over the cover sheltering Red Connors. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z Conrad and Lucy rode along a street skirting the brow of the mesa until the houses of the town in the valley below became few and straggling. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z It is one of the most picturesque of the accessible ruins in the park and occupies a better position for defense than most of the other ruins on the mesa. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z The mezcal, whose baked stem forms staple food for their enemies, grows on the mesa. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z They went out by the mesa trail, and it was a soft and blossomy day of spring. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z The fire from the mesa was growing weaker and as it stopped Hopalong, with the wounded man on his back, ran to the shelter of a gully and called for water. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z And one day when we were walking on the mesa, he was so distressed because he accidentally stepped on a little horned toad. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z It sets somewhat back from the edge of the canyon, but near enough to make it clearly visible from all sides, especially the neighboring mesas. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z For the rest of the night they on the mesa sleep not. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Eastward, above the high tilted mesa under the open sky, the buzzards were making a merry-go-round. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Joining his friends the three disappeared in the chaparral and two disgusted rustlers helped a badly wounded companion to the rough hospital in the hut at the top of the mesa trail. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The neutral, gray-green color of the structure melted into the hue of the hills and the surrounding mesa, leaving its barren newness less aggressive. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Archeological investigations have shown that the inhabitants of the Mesa Verde built compact pueblo-style structures on the open mesa land separating the deep canyons. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z There may be other grizzly bears on the mesa, and if so these monsters will be prowling around the camp to assail it at any instant. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The high mesa, with the water of mirage rolling over it, was a kind of enchanted land to him where almost anything might happen. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Johnny, moving cautiously along the edge of the chaparral, soon met Buck and Hopalong, who were examining every square foot of the mesa wall for a way up. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The cities of the mesa have no books, and have never felt the need of them. The Ranch Girls at Home Again 2011-01-13T03:01:04.363Z Each narrow tonguelike mesa of the Mesa Verde has its ruins of either isolated pueblo structures, or adjacent groups, denoting the widespread distribution of the mesa pueblo builders. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z His words, spoken excitedly and aloud, attract those who are sauntering near, and soon most upon the mesa come clustering round him. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Often he saw them settle flockwise below the rim of the mesa and beyond his sight, wondering greatly what they might be about. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z While he watched the scaling operations Red was not missing anything on the top of the mesa, where the moon bathed everything in a silvery light. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The walls were white, and hung with a few good pictures of desert scenery and strange Indian mesas. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z In 1922 one of the Late Basket Maker pit houses was excavated on the mesa above Square Tower House. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z And now they draw nearer till all upon the mesa, without any artificial aid, can see they are men, and as such surely friends hastening to their rescue. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z He went on toward the mesa, stopped again, looked back and then up at the whirling buzzards, and went on again. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z "Ah, God!" moaned a man on the mesa's lofty rim, staggering back aimlessly before he fell, never to rise again. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The deposits at Mount Sirius sit on top of a mesa of Ferrar dolerite igneous rocks, which weather to form curious patterns. Scientist at Work: Rocks, Zircon Zapping and a Big Shrimp 2011-01-07T21:02:35Z Dozens of them can be located in a half-hour walk over any of the mesas. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z Nor is it opened out till they pass behind the abutment of rock, disappearing from the view of those on the mesa. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z The mesa was very warm, and swam in misty blueness although the day was clear. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z In a thicket two hundred yards south of the mesa Red Connors worked the lever of his rifle, a frown on his face. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The mesa was never legally subdivided, no streets or rights of way for power lines were set aside, and the area was never licensed for housing. Albuquerque Journal: On the Mesa, Open Space, but No Electricity or Running Water 2010-04-19T02:09:00Z Coyotes and foxes are not as numerous as they once were on the mesa. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z Soon after they upon the mesa are made aware of the cause, by seeing the red marauders themselves coming on towards the camp, in array very different from that when leaving it. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Far off across the mesa the coyotes began to howl. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Red watched the mesa intently, hoping to be able to stop some of the firing his rash friend was sure to call forth. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z We climbed gradually upward to the top of the mesa. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Each turn of the trail reveals entrancing vistas of rugged canyons, sheer cliffs, great caves, hidden ruins, distant mountains, tree-covered mesas, and open glades. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z And while they are deliberating on the best course to be pursued, still another puff of smoke shoots up over the mesa, similar to that preceding, but at a different point. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z |
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