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Texas Monthly: West Texans Are Learning What It Means to Live in Bear Country

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Texas Monthly featured Borderlands Research Institute’s ongoing black bear research project in a feature article called West Texans Are Learning What It Means to Live in Bear Country. Read online here.

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