Additionally, the applicants aim to honor the sacred and historical significance of the buttes to Native American history and mythology.
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Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Comprising nearly 463,000 acres of private and leased public land centered on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, the American Prairie reserve is decidedly un-tropical, a rolling shortgrass prairie that stretches out to the horizon, punctuated by smatterings of trees and rocky buttes.
Hours later, a woman died in a fall from the cliff in a separate incident, sheriff’s officials told news outlets.
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Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
30 June 2025
Taken in Madagascar at the end of the dry season, the courageous lemur risks a harrowing jump from a towering cliff to another -- carrying her baby along for the ride.
These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.
The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.
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David Bressan,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.
Three years later, he’s led this team to the precipice of a title.
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Zak Keefer,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
Both apply to the Thunder, whose 120-109 victory over the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 has them on the precipice of their first championship since moving to Oklahoma City some 17 years ago.
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Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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