Slide 1 Good afternoon, My name is Aaron Escudero and I would like to inform President Trump and Ryan Zinke about Big Bend National Park.
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Big Bend National Park is located within an isolated corner of Texas at the south western border with Mexico with the nearest airport being Midland/Odessa, Texas 235 miles away. It includes the entire Chisos mountain range and a large swath of the Chihuahuan Desert.
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The various basins and mountain ranges that is now Big Bend National Park were the result of millions of years of tectonic plate movement and erosion by the Rio Grande river. Human existence within the area had existed for thousands of years, however the land gained notoriety when valuable mineral deposits were discovered in the area. This prompted Texas legislature to establish the land as Texas Canyons State park. In July 1,1944, it was reestablished as Big Bend National Park.
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Such Wildlife include 450 species of birds, 75 species of mammals, 56 species of reptiles, and 11 species of amphibians. These wildlife such as the Yucca moth are essential to the ecosystem of the park as the Yucca Moths will lay larvae within the seed pods of Yucca Blossoms. The Yucca seedpod contains over 100 seeds and the larvae only consume a few seeds however in the process the larvae pollinate the seed and allows the Yucca to bear fruit. However Yucca Moths are not the only pollinator within the park. European and domestic bees are large contributors to the park and vital pollinators and honey producers; they provide 80% of the pollination required by agricultural crops in the United States, and one-third of our diet comes from crops pollinated by honey