
White Sands National Park presents a unique opportunity to learn more how life evolves and adapts to harsh and unique environments. Since 2007, Eric Metzler, an expert entomologist and volunteer at White Sands, has discovered over 650 different species of moths in these dunes. Sixty of those species are entirely new to science.
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This moth research is critical because moths are a great indicator of a ecosystems health. The greater the diversity of moths, the greater the diversity of other animal and plant species, therefore the healthier the ecosystem! If moths died out, songbirds would all but disappear.
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Acadia

Arches National Park

Badlands

Big Bend

Biscayne

Black Canyon Of The Gunnison

Bryce Canyon

Canyonlands

Capitol Reef

Carlsbad Caverns

Channel Islands

Congaree

Crater Lake

Cuyahoga Valley

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Dry Tortugas

Everglades

Gateway Arch

Glacier

Grand Canyon

Grand Teton

Great Basin

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Haleakalā

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Hot Springs

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Kenai Fjords

Kobuk Valley

Lassen Volcanic

Mammoth Cave

Mesa Verde

Mount Rainier

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Olympic

Petrified Forest

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Rocky Mountain

Saguaro

Shenandoah

Theodore Roosevelt

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Voyageurs

White Sands

Wind Cave

Yellowstone

Yosemite

Zion