Did you ever here of the Valles Caldera?  Probably not.  It's in the truly beautiful Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico.
It's an "extinct" volcano, but I'm told by the wife of a man who works in that area that it still "bubbles" and burps".  I don't know
exactly what she means.

Most of New Mexico is desert, very dry, not really beautiful to my taste, I having come from the moist evergreen waterworld of the
Pacific Northwest.  But north of Albuquerque is the Jemez Mountain range, which is itself a forested wonderland, with lovely streams
and waterfalls.   Much of this area, which is over 7000 feet in most places, was once under the sea.  Rock formations were formed,
they tell us with a straight face, were formed by the action of oceans.  There is plentiful wildlife.  People do live there, in spite of its
remoteness from the Big City.

And in the midst of it all is a round-shaped prairie, a meadow once inhabited by a cattle ranch, but now a reserve park.  The entire
round prairie was once the caldera of a super-volcano--Valles Caldera.  I live on one of the flanks of the caldera, on a mesa formed when it
exploded many thousands of years ago, spewing volcanic ash in every direction.  Thousands of people live on the flanks of the caldera,
rarely realizing that they live on an extinct volcano.  The National Laboratory is here, placed here in WWII because of the area's remoteness.

Reports tell us that extinct volcanoes are waking up.  Will our caldera come to life too?  Will the bunnies, birds, elk and people be blown
to smithereens?  I don't have to tell you to stay tuned, as you already are tuned, your ears quivering like those of a bunny sensing a hawk
overhead.