How black bears crossed an international border and miles of desert to recolonize Texas’ Big Bend National Park. One day in 1988, a visitor came up to a ranger at Big Bend National Park with important ...

The bears took notice of them, but Flores said she could tell they weren't interested in them. The rare sighting made her first time at Big Bend even more exciting, Flores said. "I wanted to see a ...

But the Lost Mine Trail at Big Bend National Park is the one and only time I've ever encountered a black bear on foot. It happened at the end of my hike there in 2019. My wife and I had just spent ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — A Texas treasure is the focus of a bipartisan bill recently introduced in Congress. If passed, it would expand Big Bend National Park in West Texas. U.S. Senators ...

Big Bend National Park features broad expanses of Chihuahuan Desert shrubland and grassland interspersed with smaller areas of high-elevation woodland in the Chisos Mountains. Rugged rocks and deep ...