
. Big Bend is now a Desert. When early explorers came to Texas, the land was lush with tall grass and many trees. During the 1800's, cattle ranchers allowed cattle to decimate the grasslands by over grazing. In the early 1900's, miners in Terlingua mined mercury and poisoned the groundwater. The Rio Grand River runs along the border of Big Bend between Texas and Mexico. Colorado, in which the headwaters of the Rio Grand lie, further decimated Big Bend by agreeing to give New Mexico all of ...
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