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The Bradshaws having fun at the Comancche Public Library for 2026 Earth Day Celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bradshaws having fun at the Comancche Public Library for 2026 Earth Day 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By: Trina Geye<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo by TPWD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The western diamondback rattlesnake can vibrate its rattle sixty times per second. Most of the time, it doesn’t. The primary defense is camouflage\u2014stay still, blend in, let the threat pass. The rattle is secondary, deployed only when camouflage has failed and something is too close. It is not a reflex. It is a decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That decision is expensive. Rattling reveals the snake’s position. It burns energy. It invites attention from predators that might not have noticed. The snake rattles anyway, because the alternative is worse: a strike costs venom that takes days to replenish and risks injury to the snake even if the bite lands. The rattle exists because warning is cheaper than fighting. It is an evolutionary cost-benefit calculation, and it has worked for millions of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’ve heard one unexpectedly, you already know this in your body. The freeze response\u2014where your muscles lock before your brain catches up\u2014is not learned. It’s primate hardware, shaped by our lineage’s long coexistence with vipers. We are one of the species the rattle evolved to reach. It works on us because it was always meant to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Legal Vacuum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The western diamondback is classified as nongame wildlife in Texas. No closed season. No bag limits. No possession limits on private property. No mandatory reporting of how many are collected or killed. The state does not know\u2014and does not ask\u2014how many rattlesnakes are removed from the landscape in a given year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare that to the bobcat, a species that is thriving: regulated trapping season, CITES pelt tags for export, population monitoring by TPWD. Or the timber rattlesnake, the only protected venomous snake in Texas, which requires a scientific collecting permit. The western diamondback\u2014the most common and ecologically important venomous snake in the state\u2014gets nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup has been held annually since 1958. In 2016 it killed a record 24,262 pounds of western diamondbacks. Recent kills have been around 5,000 pounds. Collectors flush snakes from winter dens using gasoline\u2014a practice that damages or kills at least 350 other species that share those dens. Texas is one of the last states where gassing is still legal. In 2013, TPWD received a petition to ban it, assembled a Snake Harvest Working Group, received over 9,000 public comments overwhelmingly in favor of the ban, and then didn’t act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roundup justifies itself on three grounds: public education, public safety through population control, and venom collection for antivenom. Herpetologists have challenged all three. Rattlesnake populations self-regulate through prey availability. Venom collected under roundup conditions doesn’t meet sterile standards for antivenom production. And Georgia’s rattlesnake roundups transitioned to no-kill wildlife festivals years ago\u2014with equal or greater revenue. Texas has not followed suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I grew up around rattlesnake collection. My father was an auto mechanic who gathered diamondbacks and kept them in a 50-gallon barrel in his shop\u2014about ten at a time, though to a preschooler it seemed like more. He and his friends thought they might make a little money selling to the roundup, but they didn’t really know how it worked. The Sweetwater Roundup was the week before they started hunting, and after all those snakes came in, the price dropped. So it was competition and speculation more than income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friend and I\u2014both preschool-age girls whose mothers worked nearby\u2014would catch bugs and feed them to the rattlesnakes. Our mothers knew the snakes were in the shop. They did not know we were playing with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father killed those snakes eventually. And here is what I understand now that I didn’t then: for the snakes, the barrel was the roundup. Same process\u2014collected and killed. The barrel just didn’t have the spectacle. No public skinning, no fried rattlesnake, no Miss Snake Charmer. It was the same machinery, stripped down to what it actually was: snakes in a container, waiting to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girls feeding them crickets didn’t change what was going to happen. It just made it harder to dress up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I live on 27 acres outside Hico now\u2014limestone ledges and cedar breaks. Prime diamondback habitat. I haven’t encountered one on the property yet, but I will. When I do, I intend to let it be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s not na\u00efvet\u00e9. A single diamondback can take hundreds of rodents a year, and no other predator in this landscape fills that niche the same way. The species is genuinely dangerous\u2014responsible for nearly all serious envenomations in Texas\u2014and I don’t minimize that. But dangerous is not the same as wrong. Approximately one person per year dies of rattlesnake bite in Texas, and it is almost always someone who was handling or refusing to move away from the snake. The rattle gives you a choice. The question is whether you take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re coming into the season when this matters most. Diamondbacks in Central Texas begin emerging from winter dens in late March and April, and spring is when they’re most mobile\u2014males especially, moving between den sites and summer range, sometimes covering more than two miles. They’re diurnal in cooler weather, so spring encounters are daytime encounters: along south-facing rock ledges, dry creek beds, brushy edges, anywhere the morning sun hits. By summer they shift to crepuscular and nocturnal activity, but right now they’re on your schedule. Fall brings a second peak when mating activity increases movement again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical coexistence on rural property is straightforward: keep brush and rock piles away from high-traffic areas, maintain short grass around the house, watch where you put your hands and feet during spring and fall, and give the snake the option to leave. Most of them will. They don’t want this encounter any more than you do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rattle is a warning. It costs the snake something to give it. We evolved to hear it, and for most of our shared history, we did\u2014we heard it and we moved. The roundup is what happens when we stop hearing it as a warning and start hearing it as an invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further Reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allf, B. C., A. M. Sparkman, and D. W. Pfennig. (2016). “Behavioral Plasticity and the Origins of Novelty: The Evolution of the Rattlesnake Rattle.” American Naturalist 188(4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TPWD Snake Harvest Working Group Reference Documents (2016). tpwd.texas.gov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weir, J. (1992). “The Sweetwater Rattlesnake Round-up: A Case Study in Environmental Ethics.” Conservation Biology 6:116\u2013127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rattlesnake Conservancy. savethebuzztails.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Trina Geye The western diamondback rattlesnake can vibrate its rattle sixty times per second. Most of the time, it doesn’t. The primary defense is camouflage\u2014stay still, blend in, let… Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1420,"featured_media":6219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[6619,75700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nature","category-snakes","entry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",400,267,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",400,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",400,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",400,267,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",400,267,false],"archive":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD-400x225.png",400,225,true],"gform-image-choice-sm":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",300,200,false],"gform-image-choice-md":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",400,267,false],"gform-image-choice-lg":["https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/files\/2026\/03\/WesternDiamondback_TPWD.png",400,267,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Layne Cassidy","author_link":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/author\/layne\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By: Trina Geye The western diamondback rattlesnake can vibrate its rattle sixty times per second. Most of the time, it doesn’t. The primary defense is camouflage\u2014stay still, blend in, let... Read More →","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":6213,"date":"2026-02-15T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/?p=6213"},"modified":"2026-02-15T08:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:28:33","slug":"the-cat-that-didnt-come-inside-bobcats-wildcats-and-what-domesticity-actually-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txmn.org\/prairieoaks\/the-cat-that-didnt-come-inside-bobcats-wildcats-and-what-domesticity-actually-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cat That Didn\u2019t Come Inside: Bobcats, wildcats, and what domesticity actually costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Trina Geye<\/p>\n\n\n

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When I was a kid in Comanche, my friend had a cat her dad said was half bobcat. It was big\u2014heavier than any house cat I\u2019d held\u2014with lynx-like ear tufts and a bobbed tail, and it would drape over our shoulders and drool while we carried it around like a baby. We accepted this completely. The line between wild and domestic was not a line anyone in our world drew very carefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believed the half-bobcat story for over thirty years, right up until I started working on species profiles and ran into the taxonomy. Bobcats are genus Lynx; domestic cats are genus Felis. They can\u2019t interbreed. Which means that cat was either a domestic with some remarkably wild features, or it was an actual bobcat that somebody raised from a kitten. Her dad is gone now, so I can\u2019t ask. But I remember the weight of that animal, the ear tufts, the stub tail, the sheer size of it\u2014and I can\u2019t shake the feeling that we were carrying around a hand-raised bobcat while the adults looked on and called it a house cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Same Machine at Every Scale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The thing about cats is that they are, fundamentally, all the same animal. Eight pounds or four hundred, house cat or tiger, the architecture barely changes: retractable claws, forward-facing eyes, obligate carnivore gut, musculature built for the ambush. Evolution designed one predator and then scaled it up and down without altering the blueprint. That kind of morphological conservation is unusual among carnivore families. Canids range from the ten-pound kit fox to the hundred-and-seventy-pound gray wolf, but their body plans and hunting strategies vary enormously along the way. The weasel family runs from the least weasel at two ounces to the sea otter at sixty pounds, and you\u2019d barely know they were related by looking at them. Cats, though\u2014the skull proportions, the solitary hunting mechanics, the stalk-and-pounce\u2014it\u2019s all the same from the black-footed cat to the Siberian tiger. The design was right the first time, and it never needed revision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bobcat sits right in the middle of that range at twelve to twenty pounds, and what\u2019s unsettling about it is how completely it passes for something tame. The ear tufts and the bobbed tail are your field marks, sure, but the face, the proportions, the way it sits and watches\u2014that\u2019s a house cat. The resemblance isn\u2019t superficial. It\u2019s structural, built into the conserved body plan of the entire family. And that structural closeness is exactly what makes domesticity dangerous to wild cats\u2014not ours, but others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scottish Problem<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia) is Britain\u2019s last native cat. It occupies the same ecological niche as our bobcat\u2014solitary, woodland-edge ambush predator of rabbits and rodents\u2014and the same cultural position: the wild cat that looks almost domestic. The Picts venerated it. Clan Chattan, the Highland confederation that led the charge at Culloden, carried the motto \u201cTouch not the cat bot a glove\u201d\u2014don\u2019t touch it without armor. Caithness, the northernmost county on the Scottish mainland, translates to \u201cLand of the Cats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fewer than a hundred Scottish wildcats remain in the wild, and every one of them carries significant domestic cat DNA. The species is not being hunted to extinction. It is being bred out of existence. Domestic cats moved into the Highlands, the wildcats mated with them, and generation by generation the wild genome was diluted until the offspring looked and behaved increasingly domestic. At some point the question stops being \u201chow many wildcats are left\u201d and becomes \u201cat what percentage of domestic DNA do you stop calling it a wildcat at all.\u201d The domesticity is the trap\u2014not poison, not a bullet, not a cleared forest, just proximity to the tame version of itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taxonomy That Took Two Centuries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s where it gets interesting: the very thing that makes cats so successful\u2014that conserved body plan\u2014is what kept taxonomists from seeing how different they really are. When Linnaeus built his system in 1758, he put every cat in the genus Felis. Lions, lynxes, house cats\u2014all Felis. The bobcat was eventually described as Felis rufus. It wasn\u2019t until 1979 that Matyushkin formally separated the lynxes into their own genus, and even that was contested through the 1990s. As recently as the early 2000s, scientists were still debating whether Lynx should stand on its own or remain a subgroup of Felis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What settled it was molecular phylogenetics\u2014DNA analysis that can estimate how long ago two lineages diverged. The landmark work, Johnson et al. in 2006, showed that the Lynx lineage split off from other felids roughly 7.2 million years ago. The Felis lineage, which includes both the domestic cat and the Scottish wildcat, is the youngest branch of the cat family, diverging only about 3.4 million years ago. The two groups have been on separate evolutionary tracks for approximately 7 million years. To put that in perspective, that\u2019s older than the split between humans and chimpanzees. The bodies hid that distance for over two hundred years because the felid design is so conserved that deep divergence doesn\u2019t show on the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means that when my friend\u2019s dad told us his cat was half bobcat in the late 1980s, he wasn\u2019t being ignorant. The genus-level split had only been proposed a decade earlier, was still being argued about, and wouldn\u2019t be confirmed by genetic evidence for another twenty years. In Comanche in 1987, \u201chalf bobcat\u201d was a perfectly plausible explanation for a big cat with ear tufts and a stub tail. The science that made it impossible hadn\u2019t landed yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texas Answer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So the bobcat escaped the Scottish wildcat\u2019s fate by a genus-level split\u2014not by behavior, not by intelligence, not by some superior wildness, but by a taxonomic boundary that took us two centuries to even recognize. The Scottish wildcat and the domestic cat are both Felis, close enough genetically to hybridize and close enough physically that the offspring are viable. The bobcat is Lynx\u2014close enough to look like a house cat, but separated by 7 million years of divergence that made interbreeding impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s what gets me: the bobcat didn\u2019t even have to change. It is still in roughly its original range doing what it has always done\u2014hunting rabbits at dusk, denning in rock crevices and cedar thickets, dropping scat on the highest rock it can find\u2014with no significant behavioral modification for our benefit. It didn\u2019t become suburban. It didn\u2019t shift to scavenging. It is the same animal it was before we rearranged the landscape around it. Every other native Texas cat is gone, endangered, or reduced to a remnant population. The bobcat is in every county in the state, almost certainly on my property right now, doing just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still think about that cat in Comanche\u2014how it draped over our shoulders and let us carry it, how we never questioned what it was because it was close enough to something we already understood. That\u2019s the bobcat\u2019s essential quality: a wild thing wearing a familiar face. In Scotland, that resemblance was close enough to erase the wildcat entirely, one generation of hybrids at a time. In Texas, a genus-level gap\u2014invisible to the naked eye, unprovable until 2006\u2014kept the bobcat whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Scottish wildcat didn\u2019t get that distance. And now it\u2019s almost gone\u2014not killed, but absorbed. There\u2019s a lesson in that about what domesticity actually costs, and how little it takes to lose something wild that looks close enough to tame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Further Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, W. E. et al. (2006). \u201cThe Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment.\u201d Science 311: 73\u201377.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TPWD Bobcat Species Account: tpwd.texas.gov\/huntwild\/wild\/species\/bobcat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NatureScot: Scottish Wildcats: nature.scot\/plants-animals-and-fungi\/mammals\/land-mammals\/wildcats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saving Wildcats Conservation Programme: savingwildcats.org.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iNaturalist Bobcat Observations: inaturalist.org\/taxa\/17903-Lynx-rufus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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By: Brian DeWeese, Nature Center Committee Chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented at the Prairie Oaks Chapter meeting 1-15-26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spoke with Stephanie Keith a couple of weeks ago and she shared a\u00a0 Nature Center history report with me. It contained a lot of interesting\u00a0 information like what was originally planted and different issues they\u00a0had in the beginning. An example is the invasive Bermuda grass and\u00a0 attempts to remove it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing that really caught my eye was that the Nature Center broke ground November 2016. We are fast approaching its 10 year\u00a0 anniversary. Think about the past 10 years of legacy of engaging and\u00a0 educating the people of Erath County and beyond. The wealth of\u00a0opportunity to express who we are. What kind of effect does it have on\u00a0 people that pass by. What is it?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was late 2023, before we moved to Stephenville and while our\u00a0house was being built, that I first discovered the Bosque River Trail. I\u00a0decided to try it out and take a run on it one day. I came around the\u00a0 corner after coming out from under Washington Street bridge and\u00a0 there was this open field with a few trees and an area of blooming\u00a0 plants and tall grasses. I wasn\u2019t sure what it was, maybe a\u00a0 neighborhood garden or someone\u2019s property. I didn\u2019t know for sure. I\u00a0did see the sign saying \u201cTexas Master Naturalist Project\u201d, but had no\u00a0 idea what or who a Texas Master Naturalist was.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was one of those people just passing by.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told my wife, Sherry, about it and the next time we came to\u00a0 Stephenville we explored the Nature Center, still not knowing really\u00a0what it was. We were looking for native plant ideas for our new home\u00a0 and here was a treasure trove of ideas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legacy of the Nature Center of engaging and educating the public\u00a0continues today. That legacy has been passed on to us. Not only to\u00a0maintain what we have, but to improve upon. To create our own\u00a0 legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year a signage committee was started and Stephanie is the\u00a0committee chair. That committee has worked through a lot of exciting plans and ideas for the Nature Center. Hopefully this year we will be\u00a0 able to implement them or some of them. The idea is to help guide\u00a0people through the Nature Center as well as identifying plants. Again,\u00a0to engage and educate the public. We also want to identify who we\u00a0 are and this Nature Center is a reflection of that.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs are greatly important and that is how we will engage and  educate, but we also have to have a great product for the sign to point  to.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember as a kid traveling across the country with my parents and\u00a0 seeing old sequential signs along the road. It was one sign per\u00a0 sentence. Something like, \u201cMy head is bald. My chin is not.\u201d Then the\u00a0last sign said \u201cBurma Shave\u201d. The last sign was the product and all\u00a0 the other signs pointed to the product. Today we see 215 miles to the\u00a0next Buc-ee\u2019s. A bronze statue of a beaver awaits you. And more\u00a0flavors of beef jerky than you can shake a stick at.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plants themselves being the product need to be worthy of the\u00a0 signs pointing to them. Maintaining the Nature Center is crucial to our\u00a0message and does reflect who we are. This can be good or bad. I\u00a0 want the good.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to continue the legacy of the Nature Center to a new phase of its life. Not just signage but organization, flow, and an awesome\u00a0 product. Which means I need your help. We can\u2019t rely on just a few\u00a0 people to do this. We need people rotating and helping. More people\u00a0 to be able to say, \u201cLook what we did!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will take time, but we already have an early start. I\u2019ve decided to have twice a month work days. I hope this will do two things, one,\u00a0 provide volunteers an option. You decide which day you can come and\u00a0 help. Two, to lessen the work in the hotter months. If we can work\u00a0 more hours during cooler seasons and get ahead on the invasive\u00a0 plants, this will help reduce the hours working in the heat. We will\u00a0 focus on Seasons, for starters, cleaning up old growth during winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also want to provide clear guidance on work that needs to be done  on the work days. Such as having work zones, identifying invasive  plants that need removal and having at least one of the Nature Center  Committee members there to provide guidance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please join us. Help us make the Nature Center engaging, educational  and reflecting who we are. Embrace the legacy we\u2019ve inherited and  leave a new legacy for future generations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check the calendar on the Prairie Oaks website for work days and  time. However if you want to work any day contact me at  817-713-8647.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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We are thrilled to share the full lineup of booths and organizations joining us for Nature Fest 2025<\/strong>! This year\u2019s event will feature a wide range of hands-on activities, family fun, and expert-led learning designed to connect our community with the incredible natural world right here in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f Saturday, October 11, 2025<\/strong>
\ud83d\udd59 10:00 AM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/strong>
\ud83d\udccd Bosque River Nature Center \u2013 735 E. Long Street, Stephenville, TX<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc67\u200d\ud83d\udc66 What to Expect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From exploring fossils and insects to meeting reptiles and learning about habitats, every booth offers something unique. Families can enjoy crafts and nature games, budding scientists can dive into microscopes and telescopes, and conservation enthusiasts can connect with experts from across Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83c\udf1f Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n