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Article: Big Bend in bloom Wildflowers and migrating birds draw spring visitors to West Texas.(Going Places)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 3, 2002
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Byline: George Oxford Miller Daily Herald Correspondent
Thoughts of spring wildflowers usually bring visions of lush hills and meadows with picturesque streams - not the desert and certainly not arid West Texas.
Yet by April, especially in years following a wet autumn, wildflowers and cactuses turn the rugged landscape of Big Bend National Park into a palette of rainbow hues. Migrating birds add their colorful magic to the trees and thorn-covered vegetation.
Big Bend National Park encompasses 1,200 square miles of the most rugged country in North America. The great horseshoe curve, or Big Bend, in the Rio Grande embraces a mountain range, cuts ...