For the last six years, NMSU astronomers in the College of Arts and Sciences, along with collaborators from member institutions around the world, have been using the 2.5-meter SDSS telescope at the Apache Point, located in the
Sacramento Mountains about 20 miles south of Cloudcroft complete a suite of experiments that includes studies of Milky Way stars to unlock the history of our galaxy.
robustus, one individual from the Capitan Mountains, and one individual from the
Sacramento Mountains (Fig.
At higher elevations, forecasters warned of blowing and drifting snow and issued winter weather and wind advisories for southern New Mexico, with heavy snow expected in the Gila and
Sacramento mountains. In the Guadalupe Mountains of southeastern New Mexico, wind gusts could top 90 mph on Saturday.
After the
Sacramento Mountains checkerspot was proposed for listing in 2001 as an endangered species, partners developed the conservation plan in 2004 to address the butterfly's habitat needs.
After the
Sacramento Mountains checkerspot was proposed for listing in 2001 as all endangered species, partners developed the conservation plan in 2004 to address the butterfly's habitat needs.
I live in a cabin in the
Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico.
The types of mites trapped in the Hidden Cave stalagmites are found today only miles away in higher, cooler portions of the
Sacramento Mountains, a range to the west of the Guadalupes.
The 2.5-meter reflecting telescope is perched 2,800 meters high in the
Sacramento Mountains at New Mexico's Apache Point Observatory.
- Cirsium vinaceum Wooton & Standley (Asteraceae) is a narrow endemic thistle of the
Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico.
Tall and silver-haired, a mother of three, she is outraged by plans to build a storage facility for intensely radioactive used nuclear fuel on her tribe's reservation just north of Sierra Blanca, in the
Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico.
You may be interested in our area -- known earlier this century as the "garden of New Mexico." Hope is in the southeast section of the state, in the lower foothills of the
Sacramento Mountains, 70 miles east of the Cloudcroft Ski Run and 35 miles west of water skiing and fishing on Brantley Lake.
Elk (Cervus elaphus) occur in the
Sacramento Mountains of south-central New Mexico, which is near the southern extent of their range.