Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
1939A wildlife refuge on the Rio Grande where tens of thousands of sandhill cranes and snow geese winter each year, creating one of the most spectacular wildlife gatherings in North America.
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A wildlife refuge on the Rio Grande where tens of thousands of sandhill cranes and snow geese winter each year, creating one of the most spectacular wildlife gatherings in North America.
Oldest church in Socorro (1615). Five-foot walls survived the Pueblo Revolt. Still holds Mass.
Feb 21 1862: 5000 soldiers clashed on the Rio Grande — the Confederacy's pyrrhic gateway to New Mexico.
FDR created this refuge in 1939. Each winter 10000 sandhill cranes and 30000 snow geese arrive.
A M6.5 quake struck in 1906. A magma body still lurks 12 miles down causing thousands of micro-quakes.
A policeman saw an egg-shaped craft land here on April 24 1964. Project Blue Book never explained it.
America's last great stock driveway: 125 miles of hooves from 1885 to 1971.
Opened 1893 with 7 students. Now a top research university specializing in explosives and seismology.
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This church was built on the ruins of a 17th-century mission destroyed in a Pueblo revolt. Imagine, for a moment, a time before New Mexico was even a thought, when Spanish missionaries sought to establish their faith…
Opened 1893 with 7 students. Now a top research university specializing in explosives and seismology.
Oldest church in Socorro (1615). Five-foot walls survived the Pueblo Revolt. Still holds Mass.
A M6.5 quake struck in 1906. A magma body still lurks 12 miles down causing thousands of micro-quakes.
A policeman saw an egg-shaped craft land here on April 24 1964. Project Blue Book never explained it.
Feb 21 1862: 5000 soldiers clashed on the Rio Grande — the Confederacy's pyrrhic gateway to New Mexico.
FDR created this refuge in 1939. Each winter 10000 sandhill cranes and 30000 snow geese arrive.
A wildlife refuge on the Rio Grande where tens of thousands of sandhill cranes and snow geese winter each year, creating one of the most spectacular wildlife gatherings in North America.
America's last great stock driveway: 125 miles of hooves from 1885 to 1971.
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