Big′ Bend′ Na′tional Park′

a national park in W Texas on the Rio Grande. 1080 sq. mi. (2800 sq. km).

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Big Bend National Park - a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife

Lone-Star State, Texas, TX - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico

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The following February, Wright was returning home after several days of field exploration with Mexican park officials at what would become Big Bend National Park when his vehicle was struck head-on by another car that had blown a tire.

Call of the wild: eight years ago, a biologist named George Melendez Wright reminded us that wolves, bison, and grizzlies came before people. And because of him, they still do

The quantity and heterogeneity of escape terrain (i.e., slopes [greater than or equal to] 60% with a contiguous 150-m buffer) were quantified for Big Bend National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Big Bend Ranch State Park, and Black Gap Wildlife Management Area using a 30-m digital elevation model.

Identifying landscapes for desert bighorn sheep translocations in Texas

With establishment of Big Bend National Park in 1944, a unique opportunity arose in which comparisons of land-management practices could be observed in the Trans-Pecos ecoregion of Texas.

Post-grazing changes of vegetation in Big Bend National Park, Texas: a 50-year perspective

In Big Bend National Park in western Texas, where the Milky Way shimmers over the park in intricate detail, people notice when something's interfering with the view.

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Abstract.--Observations were made on the natural history of the gray shrew, Notiosorex crawfordi, from Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas.

Observations on the diet composition of the gray shrew Notiosorex crawfordi (Insectivora), including interactions with large arthropods

Davia assisted with research logistics and permits at Big Bend National Park. M.

Identification of cryptic hosts for two inquiline parasites of the seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex and new localities for P. anergismus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

She is working on her fifteenth mystery, set in Big Bend National Park in Texas, entitled Borderline.

Wolves, moose, researchers, and me: the author of best-selling mysteries set in the national parks visits Isle Royale in the dead of winter

Nyctinomops femorosaccus.--Within the United States, pocketed free-tailed bats have only been reported from Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, along with localities in southern California, southern Arizona and southeastern New Mexico (Schmidly 1991; Davis & Schmidly 1994).

Recent records of bats from the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande river of West Texas

Food habits of some bats from Big Bend National Park, Texas.

Trophic ecology of the free-tailed bats Nyctinomops femorosaccus and Tadarida brasiliensis (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in Big Bend National Park, Texas