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Longhorns may be next animal on state’s chopping block at Big Bend Ranch...
By EMILY JO CURETON PRESIDIO COUNTY – A small herd of purebred, free-ranging Texas Longhorns still wanders Big Bend Ranch State Park, throwbacks from a time when the land was privately owned. Now, the...
View ArticleBoquillas Border Crossing
A ceremony was held in Big Bend National Park on Monday to announce a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico. The Cooperative Action for Conservation in the Big Bend/Rio Bravo Region...
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Boquillas border crossing to reopen, this time with a port facility
By ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK – Park enthusiasts and travelers, get your passports ready: construction of a new border crossing facility from Big Bend National Park to Boquillas,...
View ArticleWild burro meeting in Alpine November 16
ALPINE – The Wild Burro Protection League is hosting a town hall meeting at 7pm Wednesday, November 16 at the Granada Theatre in Alpine. The Wild Burro Protection League is described as a consortium of...
View ArticleTerlingua chili cook-offs simmering to a boil
By MARK GLOVER TERLINGUA – Attracting chefs from around the country, the two 45th annual chili-cooking contests are under way in Terlingua this week with competition for the world’s best ‘bowl of red’...
View ArticleRio Grande clean-up Saturday
SOUTH PRESIDIO, BREWTER COUNTIES – Big Bend Ranch State Park and Big Bend National Park are sponsoring the second annual River Cleanup Day on Saturday. The parks are seeking volunteers to remove litter...
View ArticleFirm seeks high-level nuke dump site nearby
By ANDREW STUART The Hudspeth County Herald HUDSPETH COUNTY – Hudspeth County officials were approached this week about the possible storage of massive quantities of high-level nuclear waste at a site...
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Illegal immigrant apprehensions down, narcotics seizures up
WASHINGTON, DC, MARFA – U.S. Customs and Border Protection this week released the agency’s fiscal year 2011 summary of CBP enforcement and border management efforts. The Big Bend Border Patrol Sector...
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Cecilia Thompson: Marfa’s woman of letters passes away
FAR WEST TEXAS – Prominent West Texas historian and author Cecilia Thompson of Marfa died Monday, January 16, 2012 at Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine after a brief illness. She was 91. She...
View ArticleBBNP reinstates temporary closures for peregrine falcons
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK – In August 1999, the peregrine falcon was removed from the federal endangered species list, a move prompted by the falcon’s comeback from the brink of extinction. However,...
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