THE MORNING TEMPERATURES at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, near Socorro, can drop below freezing in the winter, when avid bird-watchers brave the chill to catch the show. They come to…
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The Fred Harvey History Weekend explores the many aspects of his legacy, including the Castañeda Hotel in Las Vegas. Photograph courtesy Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress). Get…
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Alie Byland worked with childhood friends to create the new album Grey , which debuts November 12. Photograph courtesy of Byland. WHEN ALIE BYLAND MOVED home from Seattle to Albuquerque in January, the…
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Illustration by Jameson Simpson. AS THE DUNES AT WHITE SANDS SHIFT, the environment itself changes from dune to dune, enabling distinctive communities of plants on and between each one. “Every step…
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Lyle E. Bennett designed these picnic shelters exclusively for White Sands National Park. Photograph by Tira Howard. LIKE SILVERY METAL SAILBOATS skimming a sea of blanched dunes, the picnic shelters…
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THE MILKY DUNES ETCHED in wavy lines stand out in the foreground. Falling sharply away, a dune’s decline becomes shrouded in shadow. A pale hue delineates the horizon as it gives way to the San Andres…
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Santa Fe Raptor Center volunteer Mario Garcia releases a red-tailed hawk inside the mews. EARLY ON A WINTER MORNING in northern New Mexico, Lori Paras enters a series of slat-covered wood-and-wire…
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Ayanna Denise Skin makes small-batch products using natural ingredients. Photograph by Justine Williams at Lou Design Studio. A PLEASANT BRITISH VOICE plays softly on the speakers, leading me in…
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Muralist Noé Barnett's Give Life is part of the Charcoal: Strokes of Vitality exhibit at Richard Levy Gallery, in Albuquerque. Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery. See the healing power of Black artists…
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Illustration by Jameson Simpson. THE DUNES THEMSELVES ARE ONLY about 10,000 years old, just a blink of an evolutionary eye, which makes the number of species adapted to this landscape astonishing…
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