By: Bill Hopkins — We now have a solution to our storage needs. Since our beginning our members have had to store our chapter supplies and equipment in their garages… Read More →
📖 Book Review: Lab Girl
By: Bill Hopkins — People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science because science gave me what I needed–a home as defined in the most literal… Read More →
🌱 Three Steps to a Native Plant Garden
By: Bill Hopkins — Have you been hesitating to start a native plant garden because you don’t know which plants to use? Then this post is for you. In just… Read More →
📖 Book Report: The Hidden Lives of Owls
By: Bill Hopkins “For more than sixty-seven million years, owls have roamed the earth, flying, hunting, and raising their families in the dark.” Leigh Calvez is a writer and naturalist… Read More →
📖 Book Report: Finding the Mother Tree
By now, most of us have heard of the controversial theory that trees communicate with each other and even help each other through an extensive underground network of fungi, connecting… Read More →
📖 The Overstory, a novel by Richard Powers: Book Review by Bill Hopkins
Richard Powers was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for The Overstory. I am just now getting around to reading it. Neelay, a character in the novel who is… Read More →
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🌼 The Nature Center After 2022
By: Marsha Stephens (with contributions from Nature Center committee members, listed at the end of this article) First, a huge thank you to all who invested sweat equity (and new… Read More →
Bird Walk at PK Lake trail
Bob and Ann Wood will lead a bird walk on Saturday, January 26th at 9:00am from the Brazos River Nature Trail. The parking lot for the trail is located on the left… Read More →
What IS a species anyway?
Dr. Russell Pfau, Professor of Biology at Tarleton State University, studies population genetics and the effects of landscape patterns on the genetic relationships between populations and species. His work has… Read More →
Wildlife Management Tax Evaluation
The presentation by Jesse Oetgen, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Technical Guidance Biologist, will include the requirements to qualify for a wildlife management tax valuation and wildlife management practices recognized as acceptable for qualifying plans, including examples of those practices