Andres Solorio Pulido, M.S.

Andres Solorio joined the West Texas Natives Seeds Project as a Research Associate in September 2025. Originally from a small town in southern Tamaulipas, Mexico, in the La Huasteca region, Andres developed an early passion for the outdoors and began volunteering at age 14 with Mexico’s Forestry, Agriculture, and Cattle Research Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Forestry from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, where his thesis examined carbon sequestration in abandoned grasslands and pristine Tamaulipan thorn scrub. He later earned his master’s degree at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, focusing on habitat restoration of native vegetation in areas invaded by Lehmann’s lovegrass.

For over a decade, Andres has built experience in environmental protection, wildlife management, and habitat restoration, working across nine Mexican states in forest and Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems. Over the past three years, he contributed to the Borderlands Research Institute’s restoration efforts, emphasizing native plant composition in Brewster County’s southern region and oil-pad reclamation in the Midland-Odessa area. Andres’s work in West Texas Native Seeds will focus on the collection and development of native seed sources, and the monitoring of restoration projects for west Texas region.