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Santa Elena Canyon of the Rio Grande(Photograph by John Moore 1994)


Apple Orchard in the Big Bend, c. 1930 Duncan Photographs, PH010, Special Collections Department, Utep Library


Ranch of J. W. Merrel, Big Bend, c. 1930 Duncan Photographs, PH010, Special Collections Department, Utep Library
   
     

Big Bend National Park

We are working with the Terlingua Preservation Foundation to gather interviews that will present a wide range of perspectives on the history, ecology, and wildlife of the Big Bend area from the 1920s to the present.

                            

  Big Bend National Park occupies about 800,000 acres at the wide bend 
of the Rio Grande at the Texas Mexico border.