Travel & Outdoors After a 52-Year Fight, El Paso’s Castner Range Is Now a National Monument It’s a big win for a city that often feels neglected by Austin and Washington, D.C.

Russell Hardy from New Hampshire was found dead on Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado, after a four-day search by two ...

"The Franklin Mountains and Castner Range welcomed me when I arrived in El Paso. And nearly 30 years later, they remain part of why I proudly call El Paso home," Ackerman wrote in a March 2022 ...

The El Paso community has pushed to preserve Castner Range, successfully keeping out a technology park and a stadium over the years. Battery H, 260th Coastal Artillery (AA) Regiment on firing ...

A herd of desert bighorn sheep run toward a ridge in the Franklin Mountains State Park after being released as part of a reintroduction of bighorns into the mountain range in El Paso on Dec. 4 ...

El Paso County Sheriff’s Office deputies are asking for the public’s help identifying a man’s skull found in 2020 near the Rampart Range mountains. A model of a face based on a skull found ...

Home to vibrant flowers, orioles, mountain lions and more, advocates seek to protect the acres around a former El Paso firing range. Skip to content. The Texas Observer. Since 1954.

President Joe Biden signed proclamations establishing Castner Range in El Paso, ... 1966 all live firing ceased as El Paso grew closer to the mountain. 1967-1969 Transmountain Road was constructed.

El Paso surrounds the Franklins on 3 sides which made it a bad candidate. "In 2018, we had bighorns on 11 out of the 16 historical mountain ranges that had them," Pagel said. "And our numbers were ...

The typical lifespan of domestic sheep and goats in free-range settings is about 10 to 13 years. Bob the Goat, the famous goat who roamed the Franklin Mountains in El Paso, has died, ...