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One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of ...
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
Developers began clearing the land in the early 1900s, and Dale's own father bulldozed some of the last coastal tracts in the ...
Mexico to send water to drought-stricken Texas after Trump threat
Mexico plans to deliver water to farmers in drought-stricken Texas, a day after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs and ...
Border Report Live: US, Mexico at odds over water payments
Under the treaty, Mexico is to pay the United States 1.75 million acre-feet of water to the Rio Grande over a five-year cycle ...
Nonprofits helping Rio Grande Valley residents recover from flooding
About 60 residents showed up Tuesday for the first of five town hall meetings held by La Union del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) to ...
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Texas’ Rio Grande Valley didn’t see last week’s historic storms coming
Big storms have hit the Rio Grande Valley region in South Texas before. The most recent in Saldaña’s memory was 2018. March ...
Arroyo Colorado to be dredged after historic Rio Grande Valley floods
A Colorado company will design the dredging of a section of a South Texas waterway that flooded during historic recent rains, ...
IKEA is opening its first store south of San Antonio. But it's not what you think
IKEA is set to open a new small-format store in Pharr Town Center, its first in the Rio Grande Valley and south of San ...
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The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
Jon Dale, a director at American Forests, hopes to further restore the once sprawling Tamaulipan thornforest in the Rio Grande Valley. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter ...