The Friday Video: Ron Coleman Trail

From the west side of the Franklins you can look at the east side from the "window" on the Ron Coleman Trail

There are some great videos on the Franklin Mountains State Park Facebook videos page. You will have to go to the link because there is no embed code that I can use to put any of the videos on this blog. The first video about the Ron Coleman Trail is especially fun. It's done tongue in cheek but gives you the basic sweep of the hike.

Be sure to visit the Franklin Mountains State Park page and like it.

Contrast Desert Beauty with Sprawl

[What I like about Rick LoBello's video below is that it provides a stark contrast between the beauty of the Franklin Mountains in the Chihuahuan Desert and urban sprawl. Rick has stopped at the top of Smuggler's Gap at the top of Transmountain Rd. He does a bit of a ramble along the Ron Coleman Trail and discusses some of the flora and fauna. He then vividly shows the affects of sprawl on the plant and animal life. Finally, on his way home, he stops at the entrance to the Tom Mays Unit again to inform us about some of the native Chihuahuan Desert plants. 

His video gives us a graphic reminder why we should sign the online save our mountains petition.

You can still sign that petition to save our mountains. Just go to https://www.change.org/p/the-people-of-el-paso-texas-preserve-our-franklin-mountains-from-further-development. Be sure to tell your friends and family members.

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