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11 Things to Know Before Visiting White Sands National Park, NM
White Sands National Monument was designated a National Park ... A steady southwest wind keeps shaping and reshaping the ...
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White Sands
They may look like mounds of snow, but the dunes in this park are made of a rare form of crystallized ... and wind and weather erode it over time into an ocean of glittering sand. The entire dune ...
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
It was originally designated a national monument in 1932 to protect its dunes from gold mining and sand extraction for cement, but for millennia before the designation, indigenous communities have ...
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Dunes quickly recovering from wildfire
May 27 - Six weeks after a wind-whipped fire consumed 3,000 acres of grass, brush and forest at the Great Sand Dunes National Monument, the blackened areas are turning green, just in time for the busy ...
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Firefighters watch blazes
April 19, Updated 12:30 p.m. - Wildfires fueled by high winds Tuesday mostly subsided overnight, but the biggest blaze, which so far has consumed 5,200 acres in and around the Great Sand Dunes ...
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New Mexico
sand dunes, caverns, hot springs, and the mysterious Santa Rosa Blue Hole. Albuquerque’s annual Balloon Festival, Santa Fe’s art, Carlsbad Canyons National Park, White Sands National Park ...