NRI assists GOHUNT and NDOW team with a bighorn sheep research
NRI's Marcus Blum joins the Nevada Department of Wildlife to capture data to assess sheep health and determine if the sheep are sick with pneumonia.
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Six Texas freshwater mussels, the “livers of the rivers,” added to endangered species list
AP News, Dallas—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared six species of freshwater mussels found in Central Texas as endangered and another as threatened. Environmental scientists refer to freshwater mussels as “the liver of the river” because they filter harmful substances like algae from bodies of water. But the species, once found in abundance in Central Texas, have declined in recent years due to population growth and development destroying its habitat.
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Case Study Quantifies Value of Restored Native Vegetation in Eagle Ford Shale Play
College Station, TX—Texan by Nature (TxN), in partnership with EOG Resources Inc. (EOG), EcoMetrics, LLC, and Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (NRI), released report “Valuing Native Vegetation Restoration on Oil & Gas Rights of Way,” which details the results of a new case study designed to quantify the environmental and economic return of native rangeland restoration in the Eagle Ford Shale play.