nature + environment

21 images VIEW SLIDESHOW

  • pvc011910c/1-19-10/asec. On the edge of Sandia Crest, a tree, its shape formed by wind and time, is covered with a crust of frost, photographed Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc080609a/8-6-09/asec. A female snow leopard cub named Sombra born to Kachina, looks around its enclosure at the Rio Grande Zoo, photographed Thursday Aug. 6, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvcBIRDIES1/11-8-07/ASEC. Cranes wade through a shallow pond at the Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge as the sun breaks Thursday morning, Nov. 8, 2007. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)








  • pvc090309h/9-3-09/asec. Weather activity somewhere between Santa Rosa and Clines Corners photographed Thursday Sept. 3, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)



  • pvcredrock1/5-28-03/jp3/asec. Twenty year-old John Pfeiffer (CQ) of Bloomfield, N.M. tosses a slice of a hay bale toward a group of hungry broncos corraled in at the Red Rock State Park in Church Rock, N.M. as he's assisted by his Australian Shepherd dog named

  • pvcmoon1/11-22-02/jp3/asec. The moon sets over The Bear Mountains in the Cibola National Forest near the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge near La Hoya, Friday Nov. 22, 2002. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc122309b/12-23-09/asec. As a light snow falls a Canada goose sits in a field at the Rio Grande Nature Center, photographed Wednesday Dec. 23, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc012510a/1-25-10/asec. A cholla cactus plant at Elena Gallegos Picnic Area and Albert G. Simms Park is set against the snow dusted Sandias, photographed Monday Jan. 25, 2010. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcLEAVES1/10-6-05/JP2/ASEC. Detail of fallen leaves near Fenton Lake along state road 126, photographed Thursday Oct. 6, 2005. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--New Mexico's laid-back lifestyle is conducive for the clothing-optional policy at the natural hot springs which bubble from mountain slopes near Jemez Springs, N.M., shown here June 19, 2001. (AP Photo/Pat Vasquez-Cunningham)