Days 3 - 4 Observing the encroachment of man
Working our way from New Mexico to Colorado, the vast vistas alternate between rocky mountains and dry plains. Pinon trees and junipers dot the grasslands as well as walking stick cacti, yucca, and occasionally a herd of pronghorn, always behind a barbed wire fence that keeps them to that side of the road. There does not appear to be much unclaimed, open land left in this part of the world. Evidence of human intervention includes housing, gravel and sand pits for highway construction, windmills, barns, broken down vehicles, used tires and other junk. Cows graze in most of this area and occasionally a couple of horses are intermixed. We frequently saw burros in with the horses, though it was not obvious what role they had in the life of the farm. Today we start our trip eastward, across the grassy plains of Colorado toward our next destination in Kansas and the first of our formal prairie chicken mating experiences.
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