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Located at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, the White Sands National Monument is the largest gypsum dune field in the world.
Up to 150 years ago, the North Chihuahuan Desert was completely covered in grassland. Archive 2008-03-01
The turkey vulture is not the only opportunist circling in the roasting sun of the Chihuahuan desert.
Conservation efforts in the Chihuahuan Desert are complicated by the fact that the ecoregion extends across an international border and numerous state boundaries, both in Mexico and the United States.
Two features make the Chihuahuan Desert region unique: the vast temperate grasslands that skirt the mountain flanks at mid-elevation and the diversity of yuccas and agaves.

Mean annual temperature is 20 • 8°C with a seasonal variation of 16 • 2°C, and a mean daily range of 20°C. Vegetation consists of xerophytic scrub or Chihuahuan Desert scrub.
Overgrazing, water diversion, aquifer ‘mining’ (pumping at an unsustainable rate), and overcollecting of native plants and animals are considered the greatest threats to biodiversity in the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion.
Up to 99 percent of the water in the perennial rivers of the Chihuahuan Desert is diverted to municipal water supplies or to irrigate fields.
The sheer beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the river work their magicuntil the raft is lost in the rapids and a young college student falls overboard, resulting in an even more grisly discovery. Borderline by Nevada Barr: Book summary
Its highest peak scrapes 8,749 feet into the Chihuahuan Desert sky and snags 21 inches of rain a year, enough to nourish these unlikely forests of firs and hardwoods.
Open grasslands and open halophyte grasslands predominate in both study areas, interspersed with Chihuahuan desert scrublands.