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For millions of years, the Canadian River patiently penned one of New Mexico’s most remarkable landscapes. It composed a story of sandstone, forest, wetland, and wildlife along the banks of a green ribbon of water beneath the open prairie.

By Jim O'Donnell / Photos by Jim O'Donnell

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