Articles by Laura Mallonee
Laura Mallonee is a freelance journalist based in Austin, Texas. Her work has appeared in Wired, Texas Monthly, and Smithsonian Magazine, among other places.
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The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
