Bosque del Apache
Bosque del Apache is Spanish for "woods of the Apache,"
and is rooted in the time when the Spanish observed Apaches routinely
campedin the riverside forest.Since then the name has come to mean one
of the most spectacular national wildlife refuges in North America. Here,
tens of thousands of birds--including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese, and
many kinds of ducks--gather each autumn and stay through the winter. Feeding
snow geese erupt in explosions of wings when frightened by a stalking
coyote, and at dusk, flight after flight of geese and cranes return to
roost in the marshes. In the summer Bosque del Apache lives its quiet,
green life as an oasis in the arid lands that surround it.