<P> The Cibola National Forest conserves large natural areas, wildlife, and habitats in the surrounding region as well . </P> <P> The second portion of the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley takes place on the "savage reservation", which is located on land encompassing the parks area . </P> <P> The malpais is the setting for a western story, "Flint" (November, 1960) by Louis L'Amour . Flint is a successful business man who thinks he is dying of cancer and returns to a hidden campsite within the malpais he had learned of in his youth . </P> <P> A scene in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian takes place on the malpais . </P>

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