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	A view of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park Photo courtesy Julie McConnell, 2004

Featured Articles:

• Big Bend National Park and Robert M. Wagstaff by Mike Cox
  If any mountain or some other notable geologic feature in the Big Bend remains unnamed, by all rights it should honor one Robert M. Wagstaff.
• Ernst Tinaja by Mike Cox
  A geologic feature in Big Bend National Park called Ernst Tinaja, a deep natural water hole dug out of the bedrock over the millenia by erosion—a place of beauty tainted by a history of death.
• The Big Bend Then by Maggie Van Ostrand
  "If you know why Texas Ranger Captain Charles L. Nevill spat his fine pipe right out of his mouth, then you know more about Big Bend history than most Texans..."
• Avisadores: Messengers of Light by Clay Coppedge
  "Put me in another landscape and I might not even notice or imagine this almost subliminal flash of light but Big Bend is, or at least was, the land of avisadores..."
• Yuccaing it Up In the Big Bend by Frances Giles
  and The Ballad of Dagger Flats (a.k.a. The Adventures of Las Dos Francescas)

	Mariscal Mine "Deep inside" Big Bend National Park on Mariscal Mountain. A National Register Historic District. Photos courtesy Erik Whetstone

NATIONAL PARKS

• Big Ben National Park
  http://www.nps.gov/bibe/index.htm
• Fort Davis National Historic Site
  http://www.nps.gov/foda/index.htm

STATE PARKS IN THE AREA

• Big Bend Ranch State Park
  P O Box 2319 Presidio TX 79845
  432/229-3416
  Chihuahuan Desert
  Along the Rio Grande from SE Presidio almost to Lajitas
  Brewster and Presidio Counties.
• Barton Warnock Environmental Education Center
  HC 70, Box 375 Terlingua TX 79852
  432/424-3327
• Fort Leaton State Historic Site
  P O Box 2439 Presidio TX 79845
  432/229-3613
  Directions: Located 4 miles SE of Presidio on FM 170 (River Road) one of the most scenic drive in Texas.
• Davis Mountain State Park