BRN 9-4 - Flipbook - Page 49
Looking south across the eastern escarpments of the San Andres Mountains from Salinas Peak, the highest
elevation in these mountains at 8,965 feet. Note the Ponderosa Pine savannah in the foreground on Salinas
Peak; it is the only place this vegetation community occurs in the San Andres Mountains.
Traditional Mescalero Apache consider Salinas Peak their Sacred Mountain where medicine men obtain
their power.
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