White Sands National Monument: A Wonder of Nature
We explore an extreme desert environment in the American Southwest. Transcript of radio broadcast:
03 January 2010
ANNOUNCER:
Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA IN VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus.
One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest. Nature has created huge moving hills of pure white sand. These sand dunes cover more than seventy-thousand hectares of desert.
Now, Steve Ember and Mary Tillotson are your guides as we explore White Sands National Monument.
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VOICE ONE:
White Sands National MonumentIt is one of the largest sand dune fields in the United States. The bright white sand dunes are always changing, always moving, like waves on the ocean. Driven by strong winds, the sand moves and covers everything in its path. It is like a huge sea of sand.
VOICE TWO:
The sand dunes have created an extreme environment. Plants and animals struggle to survive. A few kinds of plants grow quickly to survive burial by the moving sand dunes. Several kinds of small animals have become white in color in order to hide in the sand.
White Sands National Monument protects a large part of this dune field. It also protects the plants and animals that live there. More than five-hundred-thousand people visit White Sands National Monument each year. They climb on the dunes and observe the moving sea of sand.
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