Effort Under Way To Create Big Bend International Park
A grassroots effort is under way to create Big Bend International Park, a park that would span the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Texas.
- By NPT Staff - November 16th, 2015 2:30am
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Photography In The National Parks: Your Armchair Guide To Big Bend National Park – Part 1
Thinking about visiting Big Bend National Park, Texas, to capture some great photographs? Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson continues her armchair photography guide series with Part 1 of a photo tour through this vast, remote national park.
- By Rebecca Latson - October 27th, 2015 3:30am
Friends Of Big Bend...Is Now Big Bend Conservancy
The Friends of Big Bend....is now the Big Bend Conservancy.
- By NPT Staff - August 29th, 2015 2:30am
Effort Under Way To Review National Park System Wilderness Possibilities
Will the National Park Service soon be pushing for more wilderness designations? That's difficult to say, in large part because only Congress can designate wilderness. Still, there's an effort under way by the Park Servie to take a look at wilderness possibilities across the park system.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 24th, 2015 2:00am
Crossing The Border In Big Bend
Big Bend National Park offers an incredible mix of experiences, from the rugged mountainous part of the park down to the Boquillas Crossing Port of Entry on the Rio Grande River, which offers much different and a unique experience.
- By David and Kay Scott - May 31st, 2015 6:19pm
Birding In The National Parks: Keeping An Eye On The Weather Will Improve Your Birding
The serious birder of the 21st century is a bit of an amateur polymath. There’s no doubt a thorough knowledge of bird identification is essential, but there’s a host of ancillary disciplines that make for more rewarding and successful birding.
Critics Say Legislation Penned In The Name Of Homeland Security Could Trample National Parks, Other Federal Lands
Legislation written with the intent of bolstering homeland security wouldn't succeed at that, but could trample national park lands and other federal acreage, according to critics.
National Park Service Begins Rollout Of Centennial Campaign, Urging Americans To "Find Your Park"
With the National Park Service's 100th birthday little more than a year away, the agency and the National Park Foundation are beginning to rollout the celebratory campaign, urging Americans to "Find Your Park."
Birding In The National Parks: Rusty Blackbirds, Where Have You Gone?
We all know about the more charismatic of the endangered and threatened bird species. Trail closures in Acadia National Park and Big Bend National Park remind us that Peregrine Falcons nest on cliffs in parks across the country. Piping Plovers are diminutive shorebirds that bring outsized responses of both appreciation and consternation when their nesting causes beach closures in the national seashores along the Atlantic.
- By Kirby Adams - March 21st, 2016 10:54am
Peregrine Falcon Closures Coming To Big Bend National Park
Some portions of Big Bend National Park in Texas will be closed in the coming months to give peregrine falcons a little solutide during their nesting season.
- By NPT Staff - January 25th, 2015 8:36pm
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