NOVEMBER MAGAZINE, 1: Learn about the El Carmen 
project and its efforts to protect a special place just south 
of the border ... on Passport to Texas ... 
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Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

A story in the November issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife 
Magazine takes readers across the border for - perhaps -- 
their first look at an extraordinary place. Associate 
Publisher Charles Lohrmann. 
 
"Big Bend and far west Texas are often the most popular 
subjects we have in the magazine, but a lot of coverage of the 
area stops at the Rio Grande. And this month, we're taking our 
readers across the river into a ruggedly beautiful and 
biologically diverse area that is covered by the El Carmen 
Project. 

"And the El Carmen Project is an international alliance 
that is making this project work, and protecting a vast area that 
crosses into Texas in the western boundary of the Black Gap 
Wildlife Management Area, and the eastern boundary of Big 
Bend National Park. It has something like four hundred species 
of plants, two hundred fifty species of birds, eighty species of 
reptiles and amphibians. 

And so this article may be the first time a lot of people read 
about this area, and we have some stunning photographs to go 
along with it."

The November issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife 
magazine will be on newsstands later this month. Learn 
how you can subscribe by logging onto the Texas Parks 
and Wildlife web site.

That's our show for today ... For Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.