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Big Bend Ranch State Park contains geology that reflects the history of the broader region. Arguably the crown jewel of Trans-Pecos geologic history is…

The seed is everything. But there's a problem Researchers have long noted that rare plants often don't produce many seeds. In 2013, the Chihuahuan Desert…

As the weather continues to warm, we continue to look at the process of spring renewal and this week we focus on seeds. A seed is an embryonic plant,…

Few things have the symbolic importance that flowers do. But do you know why plants flower in the first place? Flowers are unique to angiosperm plants,…

A message to Nature Notes listeners: if the movie Alien, the 1979 sci-fi classic, gave you nightmares, this isn't the episode for you.“There are,” as…

Henry Thoreau is a touchstone in environmental thinking, and he pioneered a form of political resistance still employed today. But for the last decade of…

The white sands of the Chihuahuan Desert – which, in the U.S., are found at their namesake national park in New Mexico, and near the Guadalupe Mountains –…

“Without leaving home,” the Tao Te Ching says, “you can know the whole world.” It's a lesson the covid pandemic has taught many of us, who've found our…

When it comes to understanding the deep history of human life in the Americas, our region has played a pivotal role. Sites on the plains of West Texas and…

“You can never hear enough sound of wind in the pines,” the writer Gary Snyder says in a poem. It's like a vast breath, enthralling as crashing surf. In…