Comments on: High Plains Drifting – Pawnee Buttes, Pawnee National Grasslands

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Thu, 21 May 2015 17:54:07 +0000

In reply to Scott.

Three years later, sadly, Scott’s prediction is true https://pmags.com/pawnee-grassland-a-changed-landscape

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:15:33 +0000

In reply to Scott.

Wow. I am shocked to hear about the fracking. I (and I suspect many other people) was not aware of this proposal.
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20120222/NEWS01/202220354/Forest-Service-hears-silence-Pawnee-grassland-oil-exploration

I am sad to heart this beautiful area may be scarred.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:59:12 +0000

I’m so glad you took the time to see this spectacular part of Colorado. Growing up I traveled Hwy 14 with my family more times than I can possibly remember. My father always made sure we had an appreciation for the plains.

It is seldom that you will find a “non-flatlander” that can find the beauty, or will even take the time to see what those of us who grew up with it see. Now that I have returned to Colorado i still drive 14 as often as possible and can see the beauty in every curve, as seldom as they are, but I still see rolling hills where others think i am nuts.

I’m hoping that the companies that are probably going to be granted the rights to fracking the area will try to be as kind to this area as possible, but I don’t know if that’s possible. So bring your friends back to enjoy what you have seen as soon as you can. I hope that at somepoint in time people won’t look back at our images and think “where was that? It’s just a field of oil wells.”

Thank you again for enjoying our bit of heaven.

By: Robb

Robb — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:59:16 +0000

This is a TERRIFIC website !!!!
BEAUTIFUL photos !!!

robbie (NC resident, now in the mid-west)

By: Paul Mags

Paul Mags — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:17:24 +0000

Glad you enjoyed my trip report! Ada and I really loved the area and our experiences in it. As I said to her, these small towns and houses from the Dust Bowl era moved me. The old mining towns were for quick profit….these areas are where people meant to build a legacy.

The house I took a photo of is indeed back (or rather side) view. I forget the name of the road now, but it is the one at the jct of Briggsdale and SH14. Located going north just before the jct of the road that will take you east to Grover.

Beautiful area you live in!

By: Permanent Drifter

Permanent Drifter — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:15:24 +0000

Thank you for a very sympathetic view of our area. Our home lies twenty miles below the Buttes and they are framed by our kitchen window. You are very correct about the Sonoma and the background, it looks like a magazine ad from not long ago. Thank you, also, for not using the firewood, as it was very dry this last summer and fall. I was wondering what house that was: do you remember the County Road? I don’t recognize it, are you out back? But great photos.