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Why do rattlesnakes rattle and hummingbirds hum? How do flowers market themselves to pollinators? Why do tarantulas cross the road? Nature Notes investigates questions like these about the natural world of the Chihuahuan Desert region and the Llano Estacado.
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In New Research, Alpine Geologist Traces the Forces Behind the Big Bend’s Dramatic Landscapes (opens the original)
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The American West is slowly being torn apart by tectonic forces. One element of this “extension” is the Rio Grande Rift, a growing rip in the continent, traced by the river itself, from Colorado to Big Bend.
On the Rio Grande’s “Forgotten Reach,” Border Wall Imperils Wildlife and Science (opens the original)
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The Trump administration’s planned 30-foot-high border wall, stretching more than 160 miles from Hudspeth County to the western boundary of Big Bend Ranch State Park, will impact a landscape as wild as any in Texas, with profound impacts for both desert wildlife and desert science.
Border Projects Could Complicate the Return of Bears to Texas (opens the original)
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How will the Trump administration’s new border-infrastructure projects impact these bears? Scientists at Alpine’s Borderlands Research Institute, or BRI, are seeking answers to this timely question.
Archeologists Mobilize as Border Projects Threaten Ancient West Texas Sites (opens the original)
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In the coming months, the Trump administration’s construction of border barriers could impact hundreds, even thousands, of archeological sites in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, where the Pecos River and Devils River join the Rio Grande
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