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Wolves to be considered for culling elk herds

Pueblo Chieftain - Jan 25, 2012
The use of predators may receive some consideration in how the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve manages its elk herds. Park officials are conducting a study of bison and big game at the park that is due out at the same time as the management ...

Bison may not be in plans for SLV refuge

Pueblo Chieftain - Jan 25, 2012
But agency officials would not commit to including a decision on whether to welcome bison to the Baca refuge, an action Park Service officials also are considering at neighboring Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

Still Waters

Valley Courier - Jan 20, 2012
I took advantage of the Great Sand Dunes National Park's free-admission weekend last weekend to take an afternoon drive and was once again reminded how awesome the dunes are. At any season, whether it is when the Medano Creek forms a river through the ...

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Sangre de Cristo Wilderness & Great Sand Dunes National Park Trail Map 3rd Edition

by: Kent Schulte
The original trail and terrain map of Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountain range & the Great Sand Dunes is now updated with a 3rd edition. Printed on waterproof, tear-tough material. Two maps, at 1:60,000 scale cover the area from Hayden Pass in the north to Blanca Peak in the south. Notable features mapped include Crestone Pk, Crestone Needle, Humboldt Pk, Little Bear Pk, Huerfano Basin, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Electric Pk, Horn Pk, Music Pass, Medano Pass, San Luis Valley, Wet Mountain Valley, Valley View Hot Springs, and much, much more.
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The Essential Guide to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

by: Charlie Winger, Diane Winger
Nowhere else in North America do alpine tundra, tall forests of evergreen and aspen, and massive desert dunes meet so dramatically as in our nation's newest crown jewel. This book is your essential guide to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Camping, wildlife viewing, hiking, backpacking, climbing, mountain biking, dunes snowboarding--the recreational opportunities at "The Dunes" are endless. Slides down the highest sand dunes on the continent, backpack to a pristine high-country lake or climb one of Colorado's legendary 14,000-foot peaks.
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Great Sand Dunes National Park: Between Light and Shadow

by: John B. Weller

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The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill Cranes

by: Susan J. Tweit, Glenn Oakley
It is a high valley edged by serrated peaks, a remote expanse the size of Connecticut lying, as if forgotten, between two mountain ranges. Here, North America’s tallest sand dunes blow against glacier-gouged summits, the Rio Grande begins its long journey from snowflake to saltwater, and vast reaches of desert scrub hide verdant pocket wetlands. Colorado’s San Luis Valley is not a place for the timid. Sizzling hot in summer, frigid cold in winter, this huge landscape is humbling in its openness, a place defined by the rhythms of nature—and by the thrust and parry of male courting female in the ritual dance of sandhill cranes.
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The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

For sun, water, sand, mountains and even forest, check out the most unique family adventure vacation "beach" in the US; The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Strap on your hiking boots and sling your water bottle over your shoulder and traipse on up the largest dunes in North America. Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado is 150000 acres of very unique and trailess hiking. See wildlife, a part time river that often just disappears, some really tall dunes, and be a part of one of the largest natural attractions visible from space. Oh, and don't miss The Sand Ramp Trail, Medano Creek and the famous High Dune. Add an outdoor camping trip to your visit by staying in The Pinon Flats Campground.

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