Big Bend National Park News

There's nothing like holiday present to remind us of holidays past. With five minutes left to 2009, we tip our hats to the best things we saw, did, and ate this year.

James Evans' lens and soul focus on land and people of West Texas. Marci Roberts When the light is right over the rugged landscape of Big Bend National Park, photographer James Evans heads out to find the honesty of the desert and the creatures that live here.

A North Texas Boy Scout troop is struggling to figure out how to make a long-planned camping trip to Big Bend National Park after someone stole all their gear.

A wilderness proposal is being compiled for Big Bend National Park, but it's not without some controversy.

Mark Williams is road tripping 1,500 miles through the heart of the American Southwest in a custom Suzuki Equator.

Austin's a fit city. There's no doubt about it. Journey along with Pamela LeBlanc as she explores all that's out there for the fitness-minded. If you use an RSS reader, here is feed for Fit City: XML .

We were shocked recently to find out that Texas' best-loved wild place, Big Bend National Park, isn't in the top tier of the nation's best-protected public land.

Blogwire Greg Harmangharman@sacurrent.comSince the 1930s, there's been talk of a Mexican counterpart to the 800,000-acre wilderness of Big Bend National Park... QueBlog I'm very proud to announce that my twice weekly commentaries can now be found at The American Conservative.

A recent report from Spiegel International contends that the global temperature rise has leveled off since year 2000.

Two organic milk companies dominate the industry by relying on lax federal standards.

The Texas coal rush threatens to throw a monkey wrench into the nation's long-delayed efforts to stem global warming.

"The big empty" is how my seatmate describes the landscape as our plane makes its descent to El Paso .

Douglas airplane on the field at Johnson's Ranch. Photo courtesy of NPS, Big Bend National Park.

Padre's Marfa is a true reflection of the town whose name it bears. It seems like there are two different realities in this quirky West Texas town of about 2,000 residents, located between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park.

Jose Spencer's small motel is bustling with business, and that makes him worried about the future.

Thousands of endangered Rio Grande silvery minnows are being trucked to Texas to be released into the Rio Grande near Big Bend National Park.

U.S. Forest Service managers in parts of Montana and Idaho are working to ban mountain bikes on landscapes that some day could merit wilderness designation, a move that isn't sitting well with the International Mountain Bicycling Association .

My time spent in front of television almost doubled the week PBS aired Ken Burns' "National Parks: America's Best Idea." Every evening, Sunday through Friday, I watched stills and films clips of breathtaking scenery and listened to the history of our national parks.

I recently escaped to a border region, of big skies and open spaces near Big Bend National Park.

When Hubs and I started dating, we quickly learned that we shared an unusual infatuation with Texasa remote Big Bend National Park.