GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — Junction Cave at El Malpais National Monument is closed for the season. Monument officials said Friday that the closure is expected to be in effect until April to ensure the ...

A cave at a New Mexico National Monument is temporarily closed to protect a declining bat population. The El Malpais National Monument near Grants announced that the Xenolith Cave is closed to ...

So that helps feed all our little invertebrate critters in the cave!” said Erin Lynch, Natural Resources Branch Manager, El Malpais National Monument. In the summer, tens of thousands of bats ...

To survive droughts in the arid environment of El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico, ancestral Pueblo peoples relied on centuries-old ice preserved on the bottom of lava caves. Charcoal ...

Explore the Big Tubes Area and Bandera Crater Ice Caves. Drive the scenic back roads ... What's in a name? El Malpais (say el-mal-pie-EES) is Spanish for "the badlands." The rugged landscape ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – El Malpais National Monument park rangers will be giving guided hikes to see bats emerge from the bat cave at El Calderon. The two-mile trip is expected to take about 45 ...

At Bandera Volcano in El Malpais National Monument, a 20-foot-thick layer of bright green ice lies at the bottom of a collapsed lava tube. Because the basalt walls insulate the cave even in the ...

The resource management team of El Malpais National Monument conducts routine, large-scale inventories of the caves to document roosting and hibernating sites of bats, and the habitat range of ...