Sand Sheet Poster: A 24" x 36" poster and reverse-side activity guide is available for purchase from the Great Sand Dunes Park Store (zoom).
 

Sand Sheet Wonders

To the west and south of Great Sand Dunes is the sand sheet, an ecologically significant landscape which embraces the primary sand source for the main dunefield. This high elevation, arid habitat hosts a great array of life, each species enriched with adaptations that enable survival. The discoveries below and in the painting at left are a select few of the animals, plants and hydrogeologic features that can be found on the sand sheet.

Students and teachers may also explore the Fingerprints in the Dunes activity which accompanies the Sand Sheet Poster.

Sand Sheet Discoveries

Search by clicking within the poster above or follow the links below.

1. Sangre de Cristo Mountains
   
2. Sand Creek Star Dunes
3. Sand Creek
4. Rocky Mountain elk Cervus elaphus
5. sunflower Helianthis annus
6. interdunal pond
7. vesper sparrow Pooecetes gramineus
8. rabbitbush Chrysothamnus nauseosus
9. white-tailed jackrabbit Lepus townsendii
10. coyote Canis latrans
11. slender spiderflower Cleome multicaulis
12. Ord’s kangaroo rat Dipodomys ordii
13. blowout grass Redfieldia flexuosa
14. lemon scurfpea Psoralea lanceolata
15. ten-lined June beetle Polyphylla decemlineata
16. horned lizard Phrynosoma hernandezi
17. tiger beetle Cicindela theatina
18. circus beetle Eleodes hirtipennis