International student Masahiro (Masa) Ohnishi had no idea how attending Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas would affect the trajectory of his career.
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Jan2024
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Jan2024
This article, published in the Hunter's Horn, the official publication of Houston Safari Club, takes readers along for a hike with a Borderlands Research Institute black bear researcher!
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11
Dec2023
Through a multiyear partnership with Apache Corporation, researchers at BRI and Texas Native Seeds, a project of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M Kingsville, will investigate methods to improve habitat restoration efforts in the Permian Basin with the goal of publishing a science-backed, best practices reclamation document ... Read More
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Dec2023
$2 million grant will fund conservation efforts on private land in West Texas through Borderlands Research Institute programs.
13
Nov2023
Two Texas universities are partnering with state and federal agencies to study the transboundary movements of black bears and mountain lions along the U.S.-Mexico border in southwest Texas.
13
Nov2023
In this podcast, we discuss cost share programs available for West Texas landowners interested in conservation and improving wildlife habitat on their property.
06
Nov2023
To restore streams, conservationists look to their grassland headwaters
The land west of the Pecos is Texas at its wildest. But this rugged terrain has also been profoundly altered by human actions, and the starkest impact may be the loss of flowing water. Across our region, once-perennial streams are now steep-banked ... Read More
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Oct2023
Seventeen students at the Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University have been selected to receive $122,750 in scholarships from eleven different sources, including nine scholarships awarded through a special fundraising effort celebrating BRI’s 15th anniversary.
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Oct2023
West Texas Black Bears Slowly Returning
Researchers are trapping black bears and affixing GPS tracking collars to study the bruins in West Texas, where numbers are small but growing.
Article by Alan Clemons
Black bears in the far West Texas region are being studied by Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University and the Texas ... Read More
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Oct2023
Registration is now open for Water in the Desert, a first-of-its-kind conference about water in the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas taking place at Sul Ross State University on Thursday, January 18, 2024.