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)
Gemsbok
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The gemsbok, or South African oryx, is a large antelope in the genus Oryx. It is endemic to the dry and barren regions of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, mainly inhabiting the Kalahari a
Tularosa Basin
…serious American settlement did not begin until the late 1870s, when settlers and cattle ranchers from Texas began moving into the basin. In 1969, the gemsbok was introduced. The native grasslands in the Tularosa Basin were able to support large herds in the wet years of the 1880s. When the Americans first…
Gemsbok male
Gemsboks mock fighting
Portrait in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Drinking with a group of helmeted guineafowl in the foreground