Article: Residents in Ecologically Lush Weslaco, Texas, Trailer Park Will Be Evicted.

By Mariano Castillo, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 29--WESLACO, Texas--On the southeast edge of this arid, flat South Texas town is an oasis of lush greenery and wildlife. The Lakeview Mobile Home Park is unlike most retirement communities in this region.

Here, the residents live among the forest's thick smell and the birds' songs; some even say there are more different species of birds in these 23 acres than anywhere else in the Rio Grande Valley. The ecosystem at Lakeview Park is so desirable in fact, that in 2000 the city of Weslaco and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department teamed up to incorporate the ...

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