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Lee Fitzgerald The dunes sagebrush lizard lives only in expanses of dunes like this one west of Caprock, N.M. Politicians suggest dire consequences if the lizard is subject to the Endangered Species Act.
Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011
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Lee Fitzgerald The dunes sagebrush lizard lives only in expanses of dunes like this one west of Caprock, N.M. Politicians suggest dire consequences if the lizard is subject to the Endangered Species Act.
Reptile Roils Oil Patch Ana Campoy 2011
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In the east was the precipitous Caprock Escarpment, a cliff rising somewhere between two hundred and one thousand feet that demarcates the high plains from the lower Permian Plains below, giving the Quahadis something that approximated a gigantic, nearly impregnable fortress.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The Caprock Canyons, Badlands, and Breaks ecoregion covers the broken country extending eastward from the eroded edge of the High Plains (25).
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They were holed up in an old adobe under the Caprock, some distance from the settlement at Sulphur Draw.
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They'd brought the girl down the western slope of the Caprock escarpment, skirting the tableland and keeping to the trees, where there was both water and cover, and deadfall to make campfires.
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They were holed up in an old adobe under the Caprock, some distance from the settlement at Sulphur Draw.
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They'd brought the girl down the western slope of the Caprock escarpment, skirting the tableland and keeping to the trees, where there was both water and cover, and deadfall to make campfires.
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"We are going through peak heating season and temperatures have been well above normal for most of the nation with weather maps going into early February painting a similar picture," said Chris Jarvis, president of Caprock Risk Management in Rye, New Hampshire.
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"Geopolitical events have sparked a move higher as oil prices have rocketed on the headlines out of Libya," said Chris Jarvis, president of Caprock Risk Management in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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