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| | Online Field Guide :: Project Profiles :: San Luis Valley, Colorado |
 | | Water is the highest stake in the San Luis Valley -- for farmers, wetlands and wildlife, and for the towering dunes whose sands are continuously replenished by the flow of water itself. |
 | | To stand in the greasewood flats of the San Luis Valley and look eastward to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains is a fantastic, otherwordly sight: Pale, sinuous sand dunes twist and rise hundreds of feet in the foreground, a startling contrast to the snow-capped mountains looming behind. |
 | | Running 150 miles long and 50 miles wide, flanked by the Sangre de Cristo and San Juan Mountains, it encompasses cottonwood-lined creeks, shrubby expanses of rabbitbrush and sagebrush, shallow lakes, piñon and juniper hillsides, forests of aspen, pine and spruce, and the strange sand dunes themselves. |
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