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Energy & Environment

Energy & Environment

  • "A lot of people are not familiar with this kind of adventure route," says Charlie Gandy, seen in the Texas Standard studio. "This is rough. It’s rustic, it’s rural, and therefore it’s romantic."
    Charlotte Keene
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    Texas Standard
    The organizers of the xTx Trail plan a route that stretches from Houston to El Paso, where those who walk, bike or ride a horse would have a unique view of the state.
  • The Dixon’s whiptail lizard is known only from the Chinati Mountains, southwest of Marfa, and a tiny area in the New Mexico bootheel.
    Toby Hibbitts
    Trans-Pecos Texas has a stunning diversity of reptiles and amphibians, and herpetologists, both professional and avocational, flock here from around the world. Now, researchers are turning their attention to one example of that diversity – a mysterious lizard known as the Dixon’s whiptail.