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Texas Standard
December 1, 2017
“Our neighbor, Big Bend National Park was awarded this in 2012 and so we wanted to join them in the designation as a way to sort of show our support for preservation and conversation of dark skies,” Harrison says. Harrison says as part of that commitment to maintaining natural night skies – she's starting ...
KHOU
November 29, 2017
Halfway across the world from his Texas home, Tim Long stood proudly at the base camp of Mt. Everest. The crystal-blue sky and snowcapped mountaintops provided the perfect backdrop as Long flashed a big smile with an orange-and-blue towel. Earn History. World Series. Houston Astros, the towel read ...
Bandera County Courier
November 23, 2017
Generally you must be a TERLINGUA – Big Bend Ranch State Park (BBRSP) is the latest Texas State Park to be designated as an International Dark Sky Park by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA). Joining neighboring Big Bend National Park, they form one of the largest contiguous areas under ...
austin360 (blog)
November 22, 2017
Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park, with a combined area larger than the state of Rhode Island, now form one of the largest contiguous areas under dark-skies protection in the United States. That's big – and blow-out-a-candle-in-a-cave dark. RELATED: Camping at Big Bend Ranch ...
NOLA.com
November 19, 2017
Border agent dies after being injured in Texas' Big Bend area; FBI takes over investigation. Updated November 19, 2017 at 9:25 PM ; Posted November 19, 2017 at 9:19 PM. This March 25, 2011, file photo shows dry cracked mud along the banks of the Rio Grande at Big Bend National Park in Texas during one of the ...
Houston Chronicle
November 17, 2017
As its name so straightforwardly describes, Big Bend National Park sits at the spot where the Rio Grande makes the great sweeping bend that gives our state its distinctive shape. Its 801,000 rugged acres of mountains, canyons and high desert embody the state's cowboy mythology. Mescalero Apaches and ...
Wide Open Country
November 6, 2017
430) just outside of Big Bend National Park. The quaint town attracts visitors from all over the country who are on their way to Big Bend or stopping to stargaze under Marathon's incredible dark skies. (The town is designated as “Class 1 Dark Sky,” a rare status achieved by communities with little to no light ...
Dallas News
December 31, 1999
... back country adjoining the better-known Big Bend National Park, became the fourth Texas park to earn recognition by the International Dark-Sky Association as an official "dark sky" park. Together with the 800,000-acre national park, the area forms a near-total blackout region the size of Rhode Island.
TravelPulse
December 31, 1999
Stars at Big Bend National Park in Texas PHOTO: Stars lighting up the night at Big Bend National Park in Texas. (photo via Flickr/Vincent Lock). People take trips for myriad reasons. Some explore the world in order to follow in the footsteps of a historical figure or to peruse a renowned art gallery. Others will ...
Food & Wine
September 7, 2017
Get a seat up on the deck—there are great views of the river and Big Bend National Park, beyond—order a margarita, and forget all about howÃÂ ...
mySanAntonio.com
September 6, 2017
Guadalupe fescue, a rare grass now isolated to the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park, has received federal endangered speciesÃÂ ...
Finance and Commerce
September 5, 2017
When Texas officials proposed creating Big Bend National Park in the 1930s, they envisioned an international park. In 1944, President FranklinÃÂ ...
Houston Chronicle
August 25, 2017
To hike to the Window in Big Bend National Park takes a couple of hours on the trail that starts at the Chisos Basin Campground.
41 NBC News
August 18, 2017
... modest homes, is the sort of place most tourists only see while passing through on their way to Big Bend National Park or en route to Mexico.
Houston Chronicle
August 18, 2017
A visit to prairie dog towns in Odessa was not on my agenda during a recent vacation to Big Bend National Park. But a mountain bicycleÃÂ ...
KGBT-TV
August 18, 2017
National Park Service rangers continue to search for a 19-year-old Pharr man who was swept by a current at Big Bend National Park onÃÂ ...
KRGV
August 16, 2017
NEAR HOT SPRINGS – Big Bend National Park Rangers are searching for a missing 19-year-old from Pharr. Park rangers said ReneÃÂ ...
kurv
August 16, 2017
A search continues near Hot Springs in Big Bend National Park for a teenager from Pharr who was swept away while swimming in the RioÃÂ ...
Dallas News
August 15, 2017
A 19-year-old Texas man was swept downstream Sunday while swimming with friends in the Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park.
MyStatesman.com
August 9, 2017
... musician and beer guru, fell in love with West Texas as a young man, when he visited Big Bend National Park with a church youth group.
Saveur
July 24, 2017
... 300, Boquillas is on the south side of the Rio Grande, nestled inside Big Bend National Park, which straddles the Mexican-American border.
The Daily Toreador (registration)
March 28, 2017
Some of the most recent trip locations during spring break included a canoe trip in Big Bend National Park, a snowshoe trip at the Colorado-New Mexico border and a wilderness first-responder trip, Hoffman said.
BillMoyers.com
March 28, 2017
Big Bend National Park is named for the sweeping bend of the Rio Grande River along the United States-Mexico border in southwest Texas.
Dallas News
March 25, 2017
Like many who make the trip to Marfa, my husband and I drove first to Big Bend National Park, where we spent a couple of days hiking.
MyStatesman.com (blog)
March 24, 2017
The only federal property along the river is the Big Bend National Park and Texas sold that land to the United State for a park.
Patriot Post
March 24, 2017
Greg Abbott opposes this idea, as well as Trump's plan to build the wall through the Big Bend National Park. Thus, the wall is becoming one of those government projects (like prisons and waste disposal facilities) that Americans overwhelmingly support ...
Chicago Tribune
March 24, 2017
Big Bend National Park, a Texas treasure and one of the most remote national parks in the continental U.S., hosts about 118 miles of the Rio Grande - and, thus, 118 miles of the Mexican border.
The Signal
March 24, 2017
Similar action is being taken in west Texas in and near Big Bend National Park, where local politicians are opposed to the 30 foot wall proposal.
Golf.com
March 24, 2017
Today's course didn't retain the gimmick, but as befits the Wadkins style, it boasts plenty of risk/reward holes. It also possesses the rugged grandeur of its Big Bend National Park setting, along the edge of the Rio Grande. (432-424-5000 ...
PBS NewsHour
March 24, 2017
The list includes pieces about Rocky Mountain and Mesa Verde national parks in Colorado, Yosemite National Park in California and Big Bend National Park in Texas. On Saturday, the Boulder Philharmonic debuted his newest piece, "All the Songs ThatÃÂ ...
UTSA Today
March 21, 2017
On the fourth day of the trip, the group planned to trade in their hiking boots for tandem canoes and running rapids to travel through Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. However, the water levels were too low, so they had to come up with ...
Beckley Register-Herald
March 21, 2017
Opinion: A border wall will deprive Mexico of its share of that water and the National Park Service isn't going to allow your POTUS to deprive Americans of their right to canoe that river through Big Bend National Park. Fact: West Virginia Board of ...
UTSA Today
March 21, 2017
On the fourth day of the trip, the group planned to trade in their hiking boots for tandem canoes and running rapids to travel through Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. However, the water levels were too low, so they had to come up with ...
D Magazine
March 20, 2017
The mention of 'the wall' drew big groans, though Sessions got applause for saying it should not go through Big Bend National Park. Planned Parenthood supporters came en masse. Immigration policy was hot. But for all the many and varied concerns, whatÃÂ ...
KGBT-TV
March 20, 2017
... of the border wall." Nicol says that the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, the Benston-Rio Grande Valley World Birding Center and State Park, Big Bend National Park and private property may be affected by President Trump's proposed border wall.
Colorado Public Radio
March 20, 2017
Plenty of classical composers have turned to nature for inspiration. Composer Stephen Lias does, too. But his focus is a little more specific.
WPRL
March 19, 2017
But when it comes to border security, there's already physical barriers along the border. I have 820 miles of the international boundary between Texas and Mexico.
The Robesonian
March 17, 2017
The native Texan gave as example areas such as Big Bend National Park where cliffs and mountains straddle the border. Pittenger believes the "wall" includes use of satellite tracking and other technologies to bar illegal immigration and that this was ...
Yahoo News
March 17, 2017
One of the emerging areas of conflict regarding Trump's border wall is the question of Big Bend National Park in Texas, an expanse of extremely rough (and beautiful) terrain that flattens out into ranch land in one of the least populated counties in ...
Chron.com
March 17, 2017
In 1944, the National Park Service founded Big Bend National Park, an outdoors-man's paradise hundreds of millions of years in the making, and which is now being threatened by Donald Trump's border wall.
New Zealand Herald
March 16, 2017
It looks like their brief stay in Big Bend National Park will neither be a happy nor a scenic one. Though like many who visit, at least they have managed to get some hiking in.
Richmond.com
March 16, 2017
You stand at the base of massive Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park, and dip your toes in the placid Rio Grande. Mexico is but a stone's throw away.
Chron.com
March 15, 2017
They settled temporarily in Terlingua, a town in Big Bend National Park. The year-and-a-half he spent living on a bus in Terlingua inspired the next leg of their journey.
The Independent
March 14, 2017
Here in Texas's Big Bend National Park, one of the world's most iconic rivers divides two countries. For more than 1,000 miles, the Rio Grande marks the only - and ever-shifting - boundary separating Mexico and the United States, as it snakes its ...
KRIS Corpus Christi News
March 13, 2017
... includes portions of Guadalupe, Travis, Hayes, Caldwell, Comal and Bexar Counties. Republican Will Hurd's District 23 runs along much of the Texas border with Mexico, just west of San Antonio up to El Paso.
Douglas County Herald
March 12, 2017
A couple of columns ago, I described one of my favorite trails in the Southwest, the Chisos Mountain Rim Trail, in Big Bend National Park. The Chisos Mountains are the southern-most extension of the Rocky Mountains. When you cross the Rio Grande RiverÃÂ ...
Oneonta Daily Star
March 10, 2017
We've watched a cougar run beside the lodge registration building in Big Bend National Park, and we've gone whale watching in Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Houston Chronicle
March 5, 2017
Christopher Ritzi was happy to help UT find a spot for a sensor in Alpine, near West Texas's Big Bend National Park. Ritzi, a biologist at Sul Ross State University, worries about drilling and pipelines, both expanding ever closer to the little town ...
Joplin Globe
March 5, 2017
We've watched a cougar run beside the lodge registration building in Big Bend National Park, and we've gone whale watching in Glacier Bay, Alaska.
MyStatesman.com
March 4, 2017
So when I headed to Big Bend National Park recently, I decided to camp solo part of the time. I loaded my tent, mountain bike and hiking boots into the truck with visions of that big star-studded West Texas sky in my head.
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