Franklin Mountains Flora: A New Web Site to Treasure

Senator Eliot Shapleigh has gone the extra mile! If you love hiking in the Franklins and have enjoyed each of the beautiful plants that grow there and wanted to know more about each plant, now you can.

Senator Shapleigh's office in concert with UTEP, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Master Naturalists and others have created a new interactive web site: Franklin Mountains Flora. It is a work in progress but it is a progressive work to help all of us appreciate the plant life, ecosystems and biodiversity we can find on many of the popular trails in our beloved Franklin Mountains.

Claudia Ordaz, Senator Shapeigh's Communications Director, broke the news of the new site with this announcement today:

Dear Friends,

I want to invite you to take a virtual tour through the Franklin Mountains Flora website we have created. The website details over a hundred of the most common plant species in the Franklin Mountains and offers a Google Earth tour of the different trails the Franklins have to offer.

We ask that you link www.franklinmountainsflora.com to your website.

Very truly yours,

Eliot Shapleigh

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