1ST PLACE Song Dog in the Snow, Pam Dorner (above) “I took my youngest dog Blue (a Labrador Retriever mix) on a hike in the bosque near my home in Rio Rancho, before an early October snowstorm. The…
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FOR YEARS, JESUS PAYAN JR. SPENT LONG NIGHTS in the Tularosa Basin, peering into the darkest corners of the desert sky and watching for lights that evaded explanation. One night, while he and some…
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Beautiful asters soak up the sun. Flowers, plants, and water make the preserve a perfect place to enjoy nature. Photograph by Alan Eckert. ON MORNINGS WHEN TERRY SULLIVAN LEADS HIKES at the Santa Fe…
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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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Above: "Alert Bobcat" by Carlos Casados, this year's third place winner of the animals category. “The sun was rising as fog blanketed the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. I was…
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