Desolate

A pair of buildings, encountered along the road to Fort Peck, appear to be in as desolate an area of the grasslands of Montana as one could be. However, aerial views show that the foreground berm is, in fact, an earthen dam restraining a small man-made reservoir, which helps in understanding why a cottonwood tree of such stature is flourishing in an otherwise barren grassland. Photo © copyright by Robert Faucher.

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