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• U.S. Fish and Wildlife monitoring controlled burn gone wrong in Cameron County Play Video

  January 9, 2026 11:02 AM

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is monitoring the area where a controlled burn got out of hand in Cameron County as of Thursday morning. The fire occurred at the Laguna Madre Bahia Grande wildlife refuge off Highway 100. RELATED STORY: Crews respond to controlled burn gone wrong... more »

• Trump administration weighing new Cameron County land exchange with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

  December 23, 2025 9:41 PM

  The Trump administration is weighing a deal with SpaceX that would give Elon Musk’s aerospace company 775 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, according to a New York Times report on Tuesday. The reported deal would give SpaceX the land in Cameron County in exchange... more »

• Texas’ oldest wildlife refuge was set to expand. Then the Trump administration changed course.

  August 13, 2025 11:02 AM

  " Texas’ oldest wildlife refuge was set to expand. Then the Trump administration changed course. " was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Subscribe to The Y’all... more »

• Wildlife Agency Says Volunteers Needed to Restore Land to Benefit Wildlife Play Video

  October 30, 2018 4:59 PM

  WESLACO – A federal agency says it has a huge job ahead of it and not enough people to restore property to benefit local wildlife. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it uses staff and volunteers who rework the land acre by acre, digging up the soils, pulling out... more »