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  White Sands
  National
  Monurnent
       HIMMERING wavelike
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       dunes, fresh as a wilder-
  ness snowfall, blanket a \,a,5t
  area in the Tularosa Valle).
  Fver growing, ever chang-
  in2. the hills inch forward
  b
  before the prevailing south-
  west wind
  s.
  The world's largest g~ p-
  sum desert ik as created rml-
  -hen the rnin-
  lenn ums ago
  wa-
  was
  cral hed from the
  flanking San Andres Moun-
  tains, deposited in dry lake
  beds, and lflo~%n bY winds
  into clunes-a process still
  ,,(ding on. Established in
  1 133, White 1,and, National
  NL,nunient precrve~ near-
  1-, 2,10 square miles of the
  starkly bvautiful landscape.
       For the thousands of visi-
  tors who come here eacli
  year, the Park Service de'
  vised sail-like picnic shelters
  (lower left). To keep a wa~
  open for cars, 'employees
  .spend countless hours grad-
  ing and scraping away the
  sugar-fiDe sand.
       Surprisingly, the desert
  supports much plant life-
  _~ucca, squawbush, rabbit-
  brush, cottonwood. Many
  animals, including badger,
  skunk, fox, rabbit, c0 %ote,
  gopher, and kangaroo rat,
  make excursions into it .~L
  permanent inhabitant ofthe
  dunes is the bleached earless
  li7ard, Holbrookia maculata
  ruthveni (I;ft).

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