April 2015 - Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine
Loss of sight colors photographer Jim Bones’ vision of Big Bend. Learn about help for wildlife and habitat in the vast Big Bend. Symphony conductor Bob Linder calls turkeys with the help of his musical skills. Carter Smith recalls west Texas memories. Three days around Kerrville highlight native flora and fauna. Learn about conservationist Bob Burleson and Mother Neff’s makeover. Then it’s on to desert honeysuckle, the nifty new bird blind at Davis Mountains State Park, the missing Pecos River muskrat, and the pros and cons of action cameras. Going camping? Learn how to secure your campsite from critters.
Bare Bones
Loss of sight caused photographer Jim Bones to see Big Bend in a different light.
 By Earl Nottingham
On a boulder-strewn hillside high above the winding Rio Grande, noted landscape photographer Jim Bones peers through his camera viewfinder and sees the massive geological forces that created the face of the Big Bend region of Texas.
Mountains, canyons, rivers and desert intersect in a land where a calm inland ocean once covered all. Read more.
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Nature Without Borders
Protecting and managing wildlife and habitat in the Big Bend.
 By Melissa Gaskill
Driving from one side of Big Bend National Park to the other easily takes an hour. Exit to the west and you’ll need more time than that to reach Presidio. Rangers at Big Bend Ranch State Park recommend allowing a couple of hours for the 27 miles of unpaved road from RM 170 to the park’s Saucedo headquarters complex. Drive across the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo, as it’s known in Mexico) into Ojinaga — one of the only places you can do so between Del Rio and El Paso, 300-plus miles by road — and you’ll need a day to navigate a patchwork of paved and unpaved road to Boquillas, Mexico, at the base of the Maderas del Carmen.
It’s a vast, wild landscape. Read more.
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Call of the Wild Turkeys
Symphony conductor draws on musical skills to beguile spring gobblers.
 By Mike Cox
For retired Houston Civic Symphony conductor Bob Linder, calling in a big spring gobbler is just another form of performance art.
No question, the 76-year-old Marble Falls resident is a maestro in both fields. In addition to his musical credentials (a bachelor’s degree in music and a master’s in conducting), he served four years as president of the 6,000-member National Wild Turkey Foundation’s Texas chapter and has both competed in and judged national turkey-calling competitions. Read more.
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