print email comment close Snowy River Passage: Fort Stanton Cave URL: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/roswell/fort_stanton_nca/snowy_river.html Description: "In recent years, caver explorers have discovered miles of new cave within the Fort Stanton Cave in Lincoln County, New Mexico. This new discovery is the biggest new American cave discovery in decades." This site describes how the cave was found, and provides a photo gallery of the cave, the bottom of which is covered with "bright white" calcite coatings. From the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Publisher: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) LII Database Information: Record 26590 created by Maria Brandt on 07/24/2008 Last modification on 10/14/2009 Published: 08/07/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26590