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Rancho Blanco is located in Webb County, near El Cenizo, Texas. This location provides a representative location for the relatively dry climate found in western south Texas. Our evaluation location here has a La Gloria silt loam soil type. This well drained, moderately permeable soil type is similar to those found across large portions of south Texas. Rancho Blanco represents the driest evaluation location, as it has the lowest mean annual precipitation, and higher mean temperature than any other location. Rancho Blanco also provides acreage for a variety of experimental plantings, seeding trials, and competitive trials with several non-native grass species. The Rancho Blanco site provides an excellent laboratory for evaluation of plant survival in severe drought conditions, which are common to the region. Rancho Blanco Ranch Manager Jim Mutz, who serves on the STN technical committee and the Zachary Family work closely with evaluations here, and fund several collaborative projects with STN. These cooperators provide unique wildlife management and ranching insights to the evaluation process.