adapted to desert conditions struggle to survive. Only a few species of plants gr
ow rapidly enou
gh to survive
burial by the m
oving dunes, but several types
of small animals have
evolved white colo
rations to camo
uflage them in the gypsum sand. White Sands National Monument preserves a major part of this gypsum 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 of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 2
- 75 square miles of desert h
- ere and created the largest gypsum dune fi
- eld in the world. The dunes, brilliant and white, are ever changi
- ng. They grow, crest, then slump but always advance. Slowly but r
- elentlessly the sand, driven by strong southwest
- winds, covers everything in its path. Within the
- Identify Strategic and Command Considerations.
- extremely harsh environment of the dune field,
- even plants and animals adapted to desert conditions
struggle to su
rvive. Only a few species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive burial by the moving dunes, but several types of small animals have evolved white colorations to camouflage them in the gypsum sand. White Sands National Monument preserves a major part of this gypsum 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 of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert here and created the largest gypsum dune field in the world.
The dunes, br
illiant and white, are ever changing. They grow, crest, then slump but always advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong southwest winds, covers everything in its path. Within the extremely harsh environment of the dune field, even plants and animals adapted to desert conditions struggle to survive. Only a few species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive burial by the moving dunes, but several types of small animals have evolved white colorations to camouflage them in the gypsum sand. White Sands National Monument preserves a major part of this gypsum dune field, along with the plant
s
and animals that have adapt
ed successfully to this
cons
ging environment.At the northern end of the Chihuahu
an Desert lies a mountain-ringed valley, the Tularosa Basin. Rising from the heart of this basin is one of the wo
rld's gre
- at natural wonders-the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert here and created
- the largest gypsum dune field in the world. The dunes, brilliant and white, are ever changing. They grow, crest, the
n slump but a
lways advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong southwest winds, covers everything in its path. Within the extremely harsh environment of the d
une field, even plants a
- nd animals adapted to desert conditions struggle to survive. Only a few species of plants grow rapidly enough to survive burial by the moving dunes, but several types of small animals have evolved white colorations to camouflage them in th
- e gypsum sand. White Sands National Monument preserves a major
- part of this gypsum dune field, along wi
- th the plants and animals that have adapted successfully to this constantly changi
ng environment.At the northern end of
the Chihuahuan Desert lies a mountain-ringed valle
- y, the Tularosa Basin.
- Rising from the heart of this basin is on
- e of the world's great natural wonders-the glistening w
- hite sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert h
ere and created the largest gypsum dune field in the world. The dunes, brilliant and white, are ever changing. They grow, crest, then slump but always advance. Slowly but relentlessly the sand, driven by strong so
uthwest winds, covers everything in its path. Within the extremely harsh env
