Badlands of New Mexico’s Bisti Wilderness. Erosion is the process that shaped the characteristic features of the modern landscape of this place.Erosion is the process that shaped the characteristic features of the modern landscape of this place. The high plains around the Wilderness are about 6,500 feet above sea level today. The badlands lie 200 to 400 feet below those surrounding plains. The highest points in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness are always grassy.
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