Tularosa Basin
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The Tularosa Basin is a graben basin in the Basin and Range Province and within the Chihuahuan Desert, east of the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and West Texas, in the Southwestern United States.
White gypsum sand and Yucca (Yucca elata) plants, in Tularosa Basin at White Sands National Park.
Creosote bush—(Larrea tridentata), that replaced the overgrazed perennial grasslands.
View from the ISS during Expedition 8 Earth observation of the desert Jornada del Muerto region of the Tularosa Basin (showing the dry Lake Lucero)
Sacramento Mountains (New Mexico)
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The Sacramento Mountains are a mountain range in the south-central part of the U.S. state of New Mexico, lying just east of Alamogordo in Otero County. From north to south, the Sacramento Mountains extend for 85 miles (137 km), and from east to west they encompass 42 miles (68 km).
The western escarpment of the Sacramento Mountains, looking south from Dog Canyon.
Looking south from the Sacramento Mountains
Aerial View of the Sacramento Mountains.
A wild horse in the forest of the Sacramento Mountains