Buried Forest

 Last week I completed a project I was working on for BLM where I would travel around to visit areas that are under BLM's jurisdiction to make sure said areas are being properly carried for, and have not been noticeably damaged by the general public.

This was my last spot to visit, the Buried Forest. Named so due to the round formations you can see in the mountains' sides which look like trees that have been cut in half. I know that when I first heard of this area I thought it had formed when a flash flood, or something similar, washed through this area and buried a forest under tons of dirt and mud. But that's not actually true.

The truth is that those circular formations you see are not trees at all. They are solidified chunks of dirt that swirled together during a time when this area was under water. Though no one knows for certain why they formed these circular formations exactly. Or why the soil that forms these formations dots the mountains' sides like they do, instead of forming a single solid layer of rock.








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