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Notable species at the zoo include [2] the White Sands pupfish, the Mexican wolf, the Hawaiian goose, and the Ring-tailed Lemurs. The zoo is a Species Survival Plan Captive Facility [4] for the Mexican gray wolf, and in 2006 there were two wolves resident [2] in the zoo. Three Mexican gray wolf pups were born at the zoo in 1994, and seven in ...
Two people died in a three-car crash at the intersection of White Sands Blvd. and 10th St. on April 7. Austin Dawhan, 23, was allegedly traveling 114 miles per hour down 10th street in a blue ...
The main campus is located at 1900 North White Sands Boulevard in Alamogordo, New Mexico. [13] Most of the old buildings on the main campus have been razed since World War II. The oldest surviving building is the original Teachers' Cottage, built in 1918, [1]: 102 and renamed the Paul and Lois Tapia Building in 2006.
The museum originally shared a building with the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce at 1301 N. White Sands Blvd. In 2006 the City of Alamogordo received a $300,000 grant from the State Legislature to buy a historic adobe building at the corner of White Sands Blvd. and Tenth Street as a new home for the museum. [8]
Sections of White Sands National Park in New Mexico remain closed after a U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed in the area.. White Sands past mile marker 3 has remained closed to the public since the ...
A national monument until 2019, White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field in the world – gypsum being a soft sulfate mineral used in materials like plaster. The 275 ...
The major north–south street within the city is White Sands Boulevard. The Charlie T. Lee Memorial Relief Route, which is designated as U.S. Route 54 and 70, is a bypass road constructed to the west of the city in 2001 to relieve congestion on White Sands Boulevard. [152] [153]
Alamogordo–White Sands Regional Airport covers an area of 1,465 acres (593 ha) at an elevation of 4,200 feet (1,280 m) above mean sea level.It has two runways: 4/22 is 9,207 by 150 feet (2,135 x 46 m) with an asphalt surface; 16/34 is 3,257 by 190 feet (1,993 x 58 m) with a dirt surface.