arsh environment of the
dune field, even plants and animals adapted to
desert c
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onditions 
- struggle to survive. Only a few
species of plants grow r
- apidly enough to survive
burial by the moving dunes, but several typ
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es
of small animals have evolved white colorations
- to camouflage them in the gypsum sand. White
Sands National Monument preserves a major part
of this gypsu
- m dune field, along with the plants
and animals that have adapted succe
ssfully to this
constantly changing environment.At the northern end of the Chihuahuan Dese
rt lies
a mountain-ringed valley, the Tularosa Basin. Rising
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