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dirty. They explored, address solutions to essential natural resource
caught, measured, and water issues. Among those stakeholders are
encouraged, federal and state agencies, municipalities, universities,
questioned, K-12 schools, landowners, and other local groups who
hypothesized, share expertise, planning, and resources. Alongside
corrected, ran, these community partners, our faculty, students, and
whispered, walked, staff cultivate relationships and collaborate on solutions.
dreamed, and
laughed all day The LRFS is the model for how a partnership with a
long.” regional community alliance resource, higher education
resources, and a collaboratively developed agenda
–A fifth-grade teacher can help move land stewardship and natural resource
understanding proactively forward. A ‘sense of place’ in
The Texas Tech-Junction Center is also home to the nature is fundamental to learning and understanding.
Llano River Field Station (LRFS), a unique initiative The LRFS will serve as the base of operations for all
by Texas Tech to use its vast resources and academic research initiatives for both master’s and doctoral
expertise to assist Texas Hill Country communities in students working on projects within, but not limited to,
solving natural resource and education problems. the greater West Texas region.

For more than a decade now, the LRFS has brought a
diverse mix of stakeholders together to research and

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