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The Sutter Buttes are a precious ecosystem, they say, filled with delicate tribal artifacts and threatened species.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

“This little blob in the middle of the Sacramento Valley is so sensitive to encroachment,” said Marty Steidlmayer, 59, whose family has owned land in the Sutter Buttes since the 1930s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

These are the Sutter Buttes, a cluster of volcanic domes about 55 miles northwest of Sacramento and the remains of the Central Valley’s lone, and now dormant, volcano.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

To get nearer to solving the mystery of the plains, the researchers collected and analyzed rocks from the Spanish Peaks east to Two Buttes, a geologic formation near the Kansas border.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

The strategical route, which on this point overlooks the Père Lachaise, the Buttes Chaumont, and the exterior boulevard, was not even guarded.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.