Round Top Butte

USA / Oregon / Butte Falls /
 butte, grassland, National Natural Landmark
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Round Top Butte contains the best remaining example of native valley upland grasslands. It is the only site with examples of all of the community types which occurred throughout the valleys of southern Oregon and northern California prior to European settlement. Remnants of the valley vegetation types have all but disappeared because of fire suppression, conversion to agriculture, overgrazing, and development. Round Top Butte not only has the diversity of ecosystems which occurred in the presettlement landscape, but has extremely high quality examples of all of these types.

--- National Park Service


Designated a National Natural Landmark.
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Coordinates:   42°32'29"N   122°41'7"W
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