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The acquisition kept the land out of the hands of a developer with plans to carve its spectacular rock ranges, lava flows, sand dunes, valleys and cactus gardens into 40-acre ranches.

French pilots are now in the air most days, using thermal cameras to spot migrants in the dunes.

“Almost everybody else was satisfied, but I wasn’t. I wanted these dunes really bad,” Lathrop reveals.

You could not tell what was a sand dune and what was a snow mound.

Waves overtopped sand dunes on the low-lying island of South Uist.