Big Bend National Park News

Spring roundups as timeless as Texas Until the big dun bull with the festering eye got his horns stuck in the loading chute, things were going pretty smoothly last week during the spring roundup on the sprawling South Pope Ranch.

A Mexican man is accused of smuggling an illegal immigrant who died after crossing the border in the Big Bend National Park.

An attempt to smuggle a group of illegal aliens into the United States through Big Bend National Park turned into a tragedy Wednesday afternoon.

MARFA Officials are saying the Wednesday death of a man in Big Bend National Park was the result of an attempt to smuggle a group of illegal aliens into the United States, a Customs and Border Protection news release stated.

An attempt to smuggle a group of illegal aliens into the United States through Big Bend National Park turned into a tragedy Wednesday afternoon.

U.S. Border Patrol News Release June 11, 2009 Marfa, Texas - An attempt to smuggle a group of illegal aliens into the United States through Big Bend National Park turned into a tragedy Wednesday afternoon.

One person died and two others were flown to West Texas hospitals after seven suspected illegal immigrants were stranded in Big Bend National Park.

Driving Texas is all a matter of perspective. Anyone who's ever rolled across the state with purely pragmatic intentions knows the pain of realizing that, after hours in a near-featureless wasteland, you're still hours outside of the middle of nowhere .

Everything about the Big Bend Ranch State Park outside of Presidio is hard. It's hard to get to, it's hard to stay, and it's hard to forget.

With many people seeking to make weekend trips, day trips, and vacations closer to home this year, this article is being written to give some ideas to the people in and around San Antonio, Texas, for trips that are not too far from home.

After three years of delays and false starts, construction began this week on a "virtual fence" aimed at stopping illegal immigration and smuggling along the border with Mexico.

The first time we felt it was dragging a floorboard on our otherwise solid '07 Road King Custom through a big sweeping curve near Big Bend National Park in west Texas.

New at Maring-Hunt and Kennedy libraries is Borderline by Nevada Barr. Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas.

By Barbara Rodriguez After driving the many miles required to reach Alpine from just about anywhere, a lot of folks see this town as if ita s the last stop on the roaring open road to Big Bend National Park.

Dr. Joe Kuban's speech loss is hard, wife DeLane says, "because he has so much to say." S-T/JOYCE MARSHALL Nolan Catholic High School's field biology class was returning from a summer trip to Port Aransas when a familiar voice suddenly pierced the silence.

While some high school and college students spend their Spring Break glued to a television set, a few students from Seguin High School ventured out and broadened their horizons over their holiday.

From blizzards to buzzards, Nevada Barr knows no bounds. She takes heroine Anna Pigeon anywhere there's a national park.

Do you find an abstract beauty in your compost pile? Did you take any breathtaking shots of the scenery at Big Bend National Park this spring? Did you get some great video footage at your neighborhood's cleanup event? You can share your photos and videos about the different ways you enjoy and protect our environment-and maybe help inspire others to ...

New mysteries from Nevada Barr, Thomas Lakeman and Lisa Jackson BORDERLINE Wednesday, April 01, 2009 Diana Pinckley The political becomes personal, and vice versa, when National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to Big Bend National Park in Texas on the Mexican border.

Delia White once had picturesque views of rugged mountains in every direction while growing up in remote Big Bend community of Terlingua.