Natural History Wanderings

SF Gate reports

Twenty minutes and seven gates later, our drive — an early-June ramble through tall, yellow grasses, rolling oak woodland and boulder-dotted pastures — eventually leads us into the Sutter Buttes. Spanning 10 miles in diameter and over 2,000 feet high, the buttes are a small but venerable set of mountains seen for miles around yet freely accessed by almost no one. 

Read on at Landowners shut the gates in the 1960s. Now, few see this Calif. gem.