A road winds up the Manzano Mountains on Sunday, May 31, 2020.
Robert Browman|Albuquerque Journal
Gazing east, one might be tempted to call the mountains silhouetted against the vast New Mexico sky the Sandias.
They would be partly right. There are actually two major mountain areas east of the city.
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A road winds up the Manzano Mountains on Sunday, May 31, 2020.
Robert Browman|Albuquerque Journal
EAST MOUNTAIN FIRE AREAgbs East Mt Fires10 7-2-08 sorber State----- Straw is spread over the seeded mountainsides of the Trigo fire near New Canyon Campground west of Torreon. A helicopter dropped the straw on the watershed areas of the fire.
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL|Albuquerque Journal
With assistance from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History Science (NMMNHS), a team of researchers from multiple institutions has named Dracopristis hoffmanorum, a 6.7-foot-long shark that lived 300 million years ago based on a complete skeleton found in the Manzano Mountains, about 30 miles southeast of Albuquerque. dhanson@abqjournal.com Thu Apr 15 13:56:08 -0600 2021 1618516566 FILENAME: 1927656.jpg a01_jd_16apr_sharkpromo
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