This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Texas Tribune. Jon Dale was 15 and an avid birder when he began planting native seedlings ... blanketed the Rio Grande Valley still ...

Jon Dale, a director at American Forests, hopes to further restore the once sprawling Tamaulipan thornforest in the Rio Grande Valley ... of plant distributors that carry the really cool native ...

The town sits in the Rio Grande Valley, at the convergence of the Central and Mississippi flyways, and also hosts many native ... see which plants thrived. The winners? Trees like Texas ebony ...

The town sits in the Rio Grande Valley, at the convergence of the Central and Mississippi flyways, and also hosts many native ... see which plants thrived. The winners? Trees like Texas ebony ...