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s, 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 an
d animals adapted to EMRTC 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 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
- environment.At the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert lies a mountain-ringed valley, t
- he Tularosa Basin. Rising from the heart of this basin is one of the world's great natural wonders-the glis
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tening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert here and created the la
rgest gypsum dune field in the world. Th
e 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 buria privacy policy or any personal information collected by l by the moving dunes, but several types of small animals have
