• Sierra del Carmen

    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Release

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Date: December 7, 2008

See this US Fish and Wildlife Service .pdf press release for more.

 
Silvery minnow
Photo from US Fish and Wildlife Service
J. Lusk

Did You Know?

Apollo 17 landing site

Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt visited Big Bend in 1971 to study the regions geology in preparation for their mission to the moon. This was one of four field trips to Big Bend that Apollo astronauts participated in between 1964 and 1971.