By Lisa Runyon While snuggled in our cabin on New Year’s Day, our son asked what books my husband and I read last year. It took some time to recall… Read More →
Hiking the Trail Between the Lakes
by Ron Bamberg I recently completed a backpacking trip on The Trail Between the Lakes, a 28-mile track that connects Lakes Sam Rayburn and Toledo Bend in deep… Read More →
Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge – After The Flood
by Laurie Sheppard May, 2017 marks two years since heavy rains caused damaging flooding at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge and other parts of north Texas. By May 10, 2015, many… Read More →
Don’t Encourage Mosquitos!
Mosquitos carry and spread diseases such as Zika, West Nile and Chikungunya They lay their eggs on surfaces of containers that fill with water and on standing water itself. Female… Read More →
Bird Brains – A Book Review
by Lisa Runyon This is not a book review of David Welky’s A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In search of the Last Arctic Frontier. I carried that beast to my… Read More →
The Mammoths of Texas
by Patti Tuck On July 10, 2015, President Obama signed an Executive Order designating the Waco Mammoth National Monument! A new national park in Texas and it is just down… Read More →
McKinney Erwin Park Prairie Restoration
by Gwen A. Baumann High in a blackland prairie that twists like a tornado from the Red River to the Hill Country sits a little anomaly. It’s the soil found… Read More →
Heritage Farmstead in Plano, Then and Now
By Greg Hayden Under a tall, blue sky, I sit under a stately, old, oak tree amidst the historical oasis known as the Heritage Farmstead. Above me, the Titmouse’s high-pitched… Read More →
Bobwhite Quail Restoration Project at Connemara
by Jodi Hodak It’s been years since bobwhite quail have been spotted or heard through their distinct “bob-white” call at Connemara Meadow in Allen, TX. But that’s all about to… Read More →
Wolves and Unintended Consequences
By Ernie Stokely In spite of protests from neighboring ranchers, the grey wolf was reintroduced into Yellowstone Park in 1995. Elk and deer over-population and starvation had become a problem… Read More →