By Emma Montgomery The Llano Estacado, meaning the “Staked Plains,” is one of the largest plateaus on the North American continent, according to the Texas State Historical Association. This grand landscape covering the panhandle of Texas houses the southernmost tip of High Plains of North America. Here, a short-grass prairie with plentiful flat miles boasts […]
Tech Researchers Act to Conserve Elusive Texas Kangaroo Rat
August 29, 2023 by
By Samantha Stuhr On a sunny and blistering hot day in July, a small group of researchers who dare to face the heat are getting packets of seeds (each weighing 3 grams exactly) out of a mud-ridden white Texas Tech Natural Resource Management truck with a dent on the side and pouring them into trays […]
Wildlife Center Makes a Home For Nature’s Orphans And Injured Animals
March 13, 2015 by
The residents of a children’s playpen are quacking loudly. Daniel Andrews leans over the enclosure, setting down a bowl of food for the two ducklings inside. The South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center provides shelter for many species of injured and orphaned, non-domesticated animals. The Center relies almost solely on donations and volunteers to keep its doors open, and […]
Wild Ones
June 21, 2013 by
If he could pick his favorite thing about being an intern at the South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Payam Movahed said he would narrow it down as giving back to nature. “You always see pollution and animals being killed left and right because of our massively expanding infrastructure,” said Movahed. “It’s nice to come here […]
