Sand is one of the most extracted natural resources on Earth, yet its environmental impact remains dangerously overlooked.

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And human flourished in the region. This means that, hidden underneath all that sand is an incredible world of ancient human civilizations, dry riverbeds and deep canyons, and even long lost ...

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or relax in well-hidden Crestone. Then there is Great Sand Dunes National Park, a seemingly random landscape that was formed by eons of wind erosion funneling into the base of the Sangre De Cristo ...

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