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Archives of the Big Bend
The Archives of the Big Bend is a department of the Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library at Sul Ross State University. It collects, preserves, arranges and makes available the university archive, manuscript collections, books, photographs and other research resources which pertain to the area west of the Pecos river and east of present-day El Paso County in Texas as well as related areas of northern Mexico.
Arts in West Texas
West Texas is alive with creativity in the visual and performing arts, and the Arts in West Texas web site focuses on the region's many highlights. Created with the assistance of a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, the site is a project of the Department of Fine Arts and Communication at Sul Ross State University.
Big Bend Region Minority & Small Business Development Center
SBDC LogoThe BBRMSBDC serves eight counties in rural far West Texas. The center facilitates economic growth and development in the Big Bend area through one-to-one counseling of existing and prospective business owners, business training seminars and workshops, management and technical assistance, international trade assistance, business resource information and community network support services. All assistance is confidential and free of charge. Seminars and workshops are mostly free with some at nominal fees to cover handout materials or presenters.
Borderlands Research Institute for Natural Resource Management

BRINRM LogoThe Borderlands Research Institute's goal is to provide land managers with the most current scientific information on the management of the natural resources of the area. BRINRM, formed in 2007, plans and conducts research investigations on aspects of the natural world.

The ultimate goal is to provide science-based management alternatives to land owners and managers to enhance their ability to serve as land stewards.

Center for Big Bend Studies

CBBS LogoThe Center for Big Bend Studies fosters interdisciplinary scholarship of the diverse prehistoric, historic and modern cultures of the borderlands region of the United States and Mexico, with emphasis on the area encompassed by Trans-Pecos Texas and north-central Mexico.

The center is committed to the recovery, protection and sharing of this region's rich cultural legacy through dynamic programs involving research, education, public outreach and publication.

Chihuahuan Desert Resource Conservation & Development Area Inc.

The Chihuahuan Desert RC&D assists local, state and federal agencies in providing technical and financial assistance to the people of rural communities in Brewster, Presidio, Jeff Davis, Culberson, Hudspeth and El Paso counties. The not-for-profit organization is directed at the grassroots level with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Economic and community development, water quality, recreation and tourism and natural resource conservation are a few of its many interests.

Museum of the Big Bend

Museum LogoFor more than 70 years the Museum of the Big Bend has been collecting and exhibiting artifacts of the vast Big Bend region. Encompassing the Davis Mountains to the north and the borderlands of Mexico, the Big Bend has been inhabited for more than 11,000 years. Throughout that time, four distinct cultures emerged and shaped the history and heritage of the region.

Together with the Center for Big Bend Studies, the museum's goal is to capture this human history that reflects contributions of the Native Americans, the Spanish, the Mexicans and the Anglo-Americans.

Rio Grande Research Center

The Rio Grande Research Center was established by Sul Ross State University in 2004 to foster biological, geological, agricultural and environmental research in the unique Rio Grande Basin region. Multiple research projects are managed by the center, with several universities participating in the endeavors.

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