- Welcome... As you walk out below the foothills of the Manzano Mountains on the mesa you can look over a vast expanse of sparsely covered sand. Where there was once miles and miles of lush vegetation devoid of roads or people you now see black ribbons of asphalt and sprinkles of houses here and there. The power lines that dot the vista and crisscross the roads make a checkerboard pattern as far ...www.nmhp.org