A new bill proposes expanding Big Bend National Park by 6,100 acres to conserve the Terlingua watershed ecosystem.

The Big Bend National Park Boundary Adjustment Act would authorize National Park Service to acquire 6,100 acres of land.

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The bill would give the NPS permission to expand up to that 6,100 acres as long as it stays within the means specified.

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service confirmed Monday. Last March, a Big Bend National ...

Walking through the boundless landscape of red rocks and limestone cliffs in Texas' Big Bend National Park last March, a volunteer and a park ranger came across a plant they didn't recognize.

A new plant species called the Wooly Devil has been discovered at Big Bend National Park in Texas, the National Park Service announced Monday. The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata, was first ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — A new plant species has been discovered at the Big Bend National Park, according to the National Park Service (NPS), in a news release Monday. At first ...

When Christy Perry, a young Houston woman, went missing while hiking in Big Bend National Park in 2023, it prompted an all-hands-on-deck response. The park’s search-and-rescue team, which ...