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Carlsbad Caverns. perhaps you are surprised by the colors? I was too. The lights are of different color temperatures and the rocks are also different from one another. So I'm not sure what part the lighting and what part the rock composition and reflectance play in the perception of color. If one is concerned from a scientific or documentary viewpoint, this is an important question. If the concern is esthetics, then just enjoy what you see. From either viewpoint , the caverns are simply spectacular.
Yes, those are people you see center-right. That should convey the immensity of the caverns.
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New Mexico and DOE recently recognized the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) for environmental excellence in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) South Access Road project. The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) recently selected CBFO for a Bronze Award under its Green Zia Environmental Leadership Program, and CBFO was a recipient of one of the 2011 DOE Sustainability Awards. In addition to CBFO, the WIPP team included members of Washington TRU Solutions (WTS), LLC, the WIPP management and operating contractor; WTS subcontractors Constructors Inc. and Pettigrew & Associates; and the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management.
In this photo, CBFO Interim Manager Ed Ziemianski (far right) presents the Bronze Award and the 2011 DOE Sustainability Award to several recipients. Shown from left to right are Debra Hicks and Randy Pettigrew of Pettigrew & Associates; Owen Lofton of the Bureau of Land Management; Hank Carey and Ronnie Crockett of WTS; Dan Ferguson of CBFO; and Judy McLemore and Bob Kehrman, both of Washington Regulatory and Environmental Services, WTS environmental consulting subcontractor.
Carlsbad Inn, Carlsbad, California
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This was my second trip to Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Heather's first. We visited the Caverns in March 2014 - unfortunately it was over Spring Break and rather mobbed - and I forgot my tripod - so all the shots are hand held. Despite that, it was a great visit - if you are anywhere close to the Caverns, check them out!
Carlsbad, California
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This is the Natural Entrance into Carlsbad Caverns. From this, it is a 750 foot drop over about a mile and a half to get to the Big Room. As you can see, the entrance is steep!
Entrance to Carlsbad shopping mall, Carlsbad, California.
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Annual 5K Elite Race in Carlsbad, California
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Ocean House at Carlsbad Village, Carlsbad, California...
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The Pecos River Flume is a modern aqueduct carrying irrigation water over the Pecos River, at Carlsbad, New Mexico. Construction took place from 1889 to 1890 and was part of the Pecos River Reclamation Project. It was originally constructed of wood and spanned 145 feet (44 m). It carried water at a depth of 8 feet . In 1902, a flood destroyed the flume and it was rebuilt using concrete.
There is not a cave or cavern in the entire United States which evokes such astonishment and awe from visitors as does Carlsbad Caverns. This is not the largest cave system in the country, that distinction goes to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, but Carlsbad has more fantastic formations, contains the largest rooms and has the biggest population of bats. It could well be called America's Cave.
The first time I visited Carlsbad Caverns was with my Dad when I was about 9-years-old. I returned as a middle-aged adult and was amazed at how much of it I remembered from the first visit. This fantastic subterranean world had made such an indelible impression on my young mind that it will last a lifetime.
Several different tours are available for different parts of the Carlsbad Caverns, with varying degrees of difficulty. Every visitor should begin by taking the self-guided tour through the Big Room, one of the largest underground chambers on earth. There is also a unique underground dining room which provides a truly unique lunch venue.
The National Park is actually much more than just one cave. There are more than 100 caves within the Park's boundaries, including Lechuguilla, which is the deepest limestone cave in America at 1,567 feet. Also, the above-ground portion of the park offers many splendid opportunities for desert hiking, camping, backpacking and wildlife viewing.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is located in the Guadalupe Mountains, a mountain range that runs from west Texas into southeastern New Mexico. Elevations within the park rise from 1,095 meters (3,595 feet) in the lowlands to 1,987 meters (6,520 feet) atop the escarpment. Though there are scattered woodlands in the higher elevations, the park is primarily a variety of grassland and desert shrubland habitats
The most famous of all the geologic features in the park are the caves. Carlsbad Caverns National Park contains more than 110 limestone caves, the most famous of which is Carlsbad Cavern. Carlsbad Cavern receives more than 300,000 visitors each year and offers a rare glimpse of the underground worlds preserved under the desert above.
Most of the formations—or speleothems—found inside Carlsbad Cavern today were active and growing during the last ice age when instead of having a desert above the cave, there were pine forests.