Spring has arrived: the wooded hills and ravines of central Kosovo provide plenty of cover.

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Stony ridges rise up from ravines, dry riverbeds and hardly vegetated plains, and curl around each other.

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This is a place that changes and shifts throughout the day, as outcroppings cast deep shadows and mists mingle in the ravines.

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The French forces neutralised around 340 artillery shells and high-calibre rockets found stashed under acacia trees in ravines, it reports.

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However the central plateau (1, 000 meters of altitude) and the formation of radial and deep ravines is the result of intense erosion.

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The Mojave is filled with cactus plants, boulders, ravines and ruts.

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Since those owners are avid golfers, they built a fine course, a par-71, Tom Doak--designed layout with greens cut into cliff-side ravines and water views from every hole.

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By one of the many ravines running through the camp, which could flood as Petionville is on a hillside, I met Lena and her 17-year-old son and baby.

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It takes him several days to make his biennial trip, wrangling his cattle up precarious switchbacks, along the sides of ravines, through rapid mountain rivers, and, eventually, to town.

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The scent of wild mint hangs in the air as we pass dusky ravines where baboons swing from the fig trees, swerving past brilliant white bones stripped of flesh by vultures.

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