Mr. Preston said the tribe agreed to drop public protests over the Fourmile Hill plant in exchange for a five-year moratorium on additional power projects.
When visitors come off the viaduct from downtown and drive under a freeway overpass, the first thing they are likely to see is "Bull Mountain," a small hill planted with native prairie grasses and topped with a group of iron cutouts of cattle by the Minimalist artist Robert Morris.
I turned to writing, and when I wasn't writing, I was repairing and maintaining a passive-solar house in the country: shoveling snow, hauling tons of firewood up a steep hill, planting a vegetable garden that didn't get enough sun, and fulfilling various back-to-nature clichés.
After thinning to one plant per hill, plant density was approximately 60,000 plants ha -1.
Soil types and weather combine to support the hills' plants and animals.
I remember sitting on the porch of his house overlooking the garden and the low, undulating hills planted with wheat and barley that spread out on all sides.
"It's a pretty magic place," said Stephen White, Stonyridge's owner and winemaker, as he sat in the winery's restaurant, overlooking rolling green hills planted with vines.
The horticultural interest at this one-and-a-half-acre tourist attraction is what lies between the six model villages: a miniature landscape of farms, fields, woods, lakes and rolling hills planted with more than 3,000 shrubs and trees.
To many of those moving in, Har Homa is an affordable home with a stunning view of the khaki Judean hills, planted with olive orchards and spiked with the minarets of mosques.
The Bani Riyam tribe cut terraces into the contours of these hills, planting them with roses and pomegranate trees, and in April you can walk through irrigated, perfumed gardens and watch the petals being harvested for rosewater.
One reason Wave Hill's plants look so good is that they receive lots of care.
