Segment 1 The Mesquite tree – easy to say it’s not a popular tree for Texas ranchers. It’s thorny – it hogs water – stringy with shade – crowds out grassland – and almost impossible to kill. But there’s another side to the Mesquite. It could be considered a super tree that have many positive attributes that benefits the ecosystem above and below the ground. And the Mesquite is also a super food that’s tasty too. Rodney Bovey is a longtime rangeland scientist with the Agricultural Research