Big pool, tiny fish

Few swimming pools offer bathers potential encounters with a live fish, especially not an endangered one. And Balmorhea State Park’s pool is the only one in the world occupied by the tiny endangered Comanche Springs pupfish. Read more about it here. 

Texas species vulnerable to losing ESA protections

Despite research that shows Americans overwhelmingly support the Endangered Species Act, Congress and the current administration continue to try and weaken it. These Texas species, already affected by climate change, could be especially hard hit by any loss of protection.