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National Monument preserves a major part
of this gypsum dune field, along with the plants
and animals that have adapted successfully t
- o this constantly changing environment.At the northern end of the Chihuah
- uan Desert lies a mountain-ringed valley, the Tularosa Ba
- sin. Rising from the heart of this basin
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- is one of the world's great natural wonders-the glistening white sands o
- f New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have e
- ngulfed 275 square miles of desert here a
nd created the largest gypsum dune field
in the world.
The
dunes, brilliant and white, are ever changing.
They grow, crest, then slump but always advance.
Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong
southwest winds, co
- DHSvers everything in its path. Within the extremely harsh e
- nvironment
of the
dune field, even plants and animals adapted to
desert condi
tions struggle to survive. Only a few
species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive
burial by the moving dunes, but several types
of small animals have evolved white colorations
to camouflage them in the gypsum sand. White
Sands National Monument preserves a major part
of this gypsum dune field, along with the plants
and animals that have adapted successfully to this
constantly changing enviro
d of the Chihuahuan Desert lies
a mountain-ringed valley, the T
ularosa Basin. Rising
from the heart of this basin is one of the world's
great natural wonders-the glistening white sands
of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum
sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert
here and created the largest gypsum dune field
in the world.
The dunes, brilliant and white, are ever changing.
They grow, crest, then slump but always advance.
Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong
southwest winds, covers everything in its path.
Within the extremely harsh environment of the
dune field, even plants and animals adapted to
desert conditions struggle to survive. Only a few
species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive
burial by the moving dunes, but several types
of small animals have evol
camouflage them in th
e gypsum sand. White
Sands National Monument preserves a major part
of this gypsum dune field, along with the plants
and animals that have adapted successfully to this
constantly changing environment.At the northern end of the Chihuah
uan Desert lies
a mountin-ra
inged valley, the Tul
arosa Basin. Rising from the heart of this basin is one of the world's great natural wonders-the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes o
- f gypsum sand have engulfed 275
- square miles of desert here and created the largest gypsum dun
- e field in the world. The dunes, brilliant and white, are ever changing. They grow, crest, then slump but always advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong southwest winds, covers everything in its pat
- h. Within the extremely harsh environment of the dune field, even plants and animals adapted to desert c, onditions s
- truggle to survive. Only a few species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive burial by t
he moving dunes, but several types of small animals hav
e evolved white colorations
to camouflage them in the gypsum sand. White
Sands National MonNDPCument preserves a major part
of this gypsum dune field, along with the plants
and animals that have adapted successfully to this
constantly changing environment.At the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert lies
a mountain-ringed valley, the Tularosa Basin. Rising
fr
om the heart of this basin is one of the world's great natural wonders-the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave
- -like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles
- of desert here and created the largest gypsum dune fi
- eld in the world. The dunes, brilliant and white, are ever
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changing. They grow, crest, then slump but always advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by stro
ng southwest winds
