Big Bend National Park News

A wilderness proposal is being compiled for Big Bend National Park, but it's not without some controversy.

Mark Williams is road tripping 1,500 miles through the heart of the American Southwest in a custom Suzuki Equator.

Austin's a fit city. There's no doubt about it. Journey along with Pamela LeBlanc as she explores all that's out there for the fitness-minded. If you use an RSS reader, here is feed for Fit City: XML .

We were shocked recently to find out that Texas' best-loved wild place, Big Bend National Park, isn't in the top tier of the nation's best-protected public land.

Blogwire Greg Harmangharman@sacurrent.comSince the 1930s, there's been talk of a Mexican counterpart to the 800,000-acre wilderness of Big Bend National Park... QueBlog I'm very proud to announce that my twice weekly commentaries can now be found at The American Conservative.

A recent report from Spiegel International contends that the global temperature rise has leveled off since year 2000.

Two organic milk companies dominate the industry by relying on lax federal standards.

The Texas coal rush threatens to throw a monkey wrench into the nation's long-delayed efforts to stem global warming.

"The big empty" is how my seatmate describes the landscape as our plane makes its descent to El Paso .

Douglas airplane on the field at Johnson's Ranch. Photo courtesy of NPS, Big Bend National Park.

Padre's Marfa is a true reflection of the town whose name it bears. It seems like there are two different realities in this quirky West Texas town of about 2,000 residents, located between the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park.

Jose Spencer's small motel is bustling with business, and that makes him worried about the future.

Thousands of endangered Rio Grande silvery minnows are being trucked to Texas to be released into the Rio Grande near Big Bend National Park.

U.S. Forest Service managers in parts of Montana and Idaho are working to ban mountain bikes on landscapes that some day could merit wilderness designation, a move that isn't sitting well with the International Mountain Bicycling Association .

My time spent in front of television almost doubled the week PBS aired Ken Burns' "National Parks: America's Best Idea." Every evening, Sunday through Friday, I watched stills and films clips of breathtaking scenery and listened to the history of our national parks.

I recently escaped to a border region, of big skies and open spaces near Big Bend National Park.

When Hubs and I started dating, we quickly learned that we shared an unusual infatuation with Texasa remote Big Bend National Park.

The National Park Service is proposing regulation changes to allow bicyclists to use pathways at the Big Bend National Park in Texas and the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

Almost a decade ago, I took a couple of years off from newspapering to be a freelance writer.

Keeping night skies dark at Big Bend National Park is being aided by Friends of Big Bend National Park.