Matt Dahlseid

As the remaining patches of snow melt from the peaks, New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains come to life.

Penstemon barbatus grows out of a hillside along the first miles of Trampas Lakes Trail in the Pecos Wilderness of Carson National Forest.

Scarlet paintbrush grows from a meadow near Winsor Trail No. 254, with Santa Fe Baldy in the background, in the Pecos Wilderness of Santa Fe National Forest.

As the remaining patches of snow melt from the peaks, New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains come to life. From late spring into summer, stands of aspen trees fill out

The remains of a small shower house that was connected to nearby hot springs with tubes still stands in Sulphur Springs, which was acquired by Valles Caldera National Preserve in

In a smelly, inhospitable basin in the Jemez Mountains called Sulphur Springs, the most common organisms equipped to live in this harsh environment

Members of the Happy Hoofers, a hiking group for the Albuquerque area, hike in the Sulphur Springs portion of Valles Caldera National Preserve on Friday, May 22, 2026. In the

Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep rams sit on Penitente Peak in the Pecos Wilderness on July 4, 2019.

The Pecos Wilderness hike near Santa Fe hits two peaks over 12,000 feet, offering incredible views and the chance to see bighorn sheep.

Darkness had fallen over the Gila National Forest and Lia Nydes was lying in a small blind alongside her camera gear within about 40 feet of a female mountain lion that was feasting on a coyote it had killed.