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This Part of New Mexico Looks Like Another Planet

The Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area in Bloomfield, New Mexico, is full of geologic eye candy including otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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