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Adobe Town: Saving the Crown Jewel of the Red Desert from Drilling

Adobe Town is the most spectacular of Wyoming's high desert wilderness areas. BCA is working to protect this fragile and spectacular landscape from drilling.

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Anywhere else, Adobe Town would already be a National Park Pinnacles take a variety of forms along the Adobe Town Rim Towers rising 200 feet above the desert floor Pinnacles weathered into the ancient volcanic ash by wind and water Adobe Town's location in Wyoming's southern Red Desert Colorful badlands at the base of the Powder Rim, southern Adobe Town Looking southward from The Haystacks, where Butch Cassidy and his gang hid fresh horses during the Tipton Train Robbery Looking south from The Haystacks across 27 miles of uninterrupted wilderness Juniper woodlands on The Haystacks harbor mule deer and mountain lions An unnamed natural arch made of green tuffaceous sandstone over 50 million years old This year is a good year for wildflowers due to spring rains Butte atop the Skull Creek Rim Cushion plants blooming on the Skull Creek Rim Evening primrose blooming in the midst of the desolation Butte below the Skull Creek Rim Sunset in souther Adobe Town A greater short-horned lizard (also known as horned toad) Thousand-foot cliffs of the Skull Creek Rim Pinnacles of the Adobe Town Rim
Anywhere else, Adobe Town would already be a National Park

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  • Planet Saver
  • Laramie, WY United States
  • Posted: Jul 2, 2008
  • Last Updated: Jul 22, 2008
  • Cause Areas: Conservation, Fossil, Land
  • Website: www.voiceforthewild.org
  • Group Members:
    • Erik Molvar
    • Sarah Egolf
    • Carmi McLean
    • Duane Short
    • Larca Wicke

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