Category: What’s New

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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.
October 30, 2023Shawna Graves

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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
October 26, 2023Shawna Graves

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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.
October 23, 2023Shawna Graves

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Oct2023
The Borderlands Research Institute, Rio Grande Joint Venture, and Dixon Water Foundation are teaming up to roll out the Alamito Creek Conservation Initiative in Far West Texas.
October 16, 2023Shawna Graves

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Oct2023
Check out this podcast from Houston Safari Club Foundation featuring BRI Researcher Dr. Amanda Veals Dutt! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hunting-matters/id1519068446?i=1000629735306 Black Bears in Texas with Amanda M. Veals Dutt, PhD Amanda M. Veals Dutt, PhD, Carnivore Specialist and Research Scientist, Borderlands Research Institute, Sul Ross State University. Dr. Dutt is the Carnivore Specialist and post-doctoral Research ... Read More
October 2, 2023Shawna Graves
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Sep2023
A habitat enhancement project six years in the making is coming to fruition on the 22,000-acre Decie Ranch, located between Alpine and Marathon in the Big Bend region of West Texas. 
September 11, 2023Shawna Graves

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Aug2023
Now streaming at OurTexasOurFuture.com/stories   Thirty years ago, a pioneering black bear crossed the Rio Grande, made a home in Big Bend National Park, and successfully raised cubs—the first to be born in Texas since the early 1900s! Texas’s black bear population has slowly grown ever since, expanding back into their historic ... Read More
August 23, 2023Shawna Graves

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Aug2023
The goal of this research is to better prepare wildlife biologists who work alongside oil companies with management strategy advice tailored to the Permian Basin to continue sustaining quail populations in this area of Texas.
August 22, 2023Shawna Graves
Brooke Bowman

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Aug2023
Brooke Bowman always knew she wanted to study the natural world around her, and that's just what she's been doing.
August 21, 2023Shawna Graves

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Aug2023
In our latest podcast, Dr. Louis Harveson, Dr. Carlos Gonzalez and Dr. Justin French reflect on the evolution of BRI’s students, faculty and research projects.
August 21, 2023Shawna Graves