ypsum 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
from the heart of this basin is one of the world's
great natural wonders-the glistening white sands
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- xico. Great wave-lik
- e dunes o
- f gypsum sand ha
- ve engulfed 275 square
- miles of desert here and
- created the largest g
- ypsum d
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- une field in the
- world. The
- dunes, brilliant and
- white, are ever ch
- anging.
- They grow
- , crest, then slump but
alwa also participates in college prep programs for high school students, including the New Mexico Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (ys advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, ) Young Scholars programs.
