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 ...

Texas is a big state with wildly varied geographic features, many of which are remote and awe-inspiring. Big Bend National Park is one such place. This 1,200-plus-acre plot of the Chihuahuan ...

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 ...