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Texas State team to help with endangered lizard study

A research team has been awarded funds for a multi-year project to protect a lizard whose numbers are threatened by habitat removal, fragmentation and degradation.

by Carol Flake

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Credit: Steve Jurvetson

A research team from Texas State University has been awarded funds by the Texas Comptroller for a multi-year project to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard, whose numbers are threatened by habitat removal, fragmentation and degradation as a result of oil and gas development. (Texas State University)

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