Monument View
by Britt Runyon
Title
Monument View
Artist
Britt Runyon
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
This image was captured as I hiked the volcanic West rim of the Rio Grande Gorge of New Mexico during a Winter snow storm. This area was declared a national monument by President Obama and includes 242, 555 acres. The Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, signed into existence in March 2013, is one of the nation's most recent and biggest national monuments. That declaration protects the arid high-mountain Taos Plateau from any development, no fracking, no drilling, no mining, no suburbs, no wind farms, no new roadsand ensures that rain and wind will be the primary factors shaping this region for centuries to come.
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May 2nd, 2016
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