Posted by admin | Feb 12, 2016 | News, Riparian Management
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and several partner organizations, and are planning a riparian recovery workshop for landowners impacted by the Memorial Day flood. Free grass and sedge plants will be given away and agency staff will train landowners in proper...
Posted by admin | Feb 12, 2016 | News, Transportation Planning
Union Pacific dealt a major blow to a proposal to connect San Antonio and Austin with passenger rail by pulling one of its tracks from a possible plan. UP ended its agreement with the Lone Star Rail District to study the feasibility of running passenger trains on a...
Posted by admin | Feb 10, 2016 | News, Night Skies
Ken Kattner, of Putnam Observatory and key leader on HCA Night Skies Team, recently donated valuable high-tech scientific equipment to monitor sky quality at South Llano River State Park near Junction. Dedicated to preserving large swaths of Hill Country night skies,...
Posted by admin | Feb 5, 2016 | Land Stewardship, News
Armed with $2 million in legislative appropriations to help bring more of the state’s high-value working farm and ranch lands under long term conservation protection, the Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Council held its inaugural meeting under the...
Posted by admin | Feb 5, 2016 | News, Water Quality
From his rolling Hill Country spread, Wes Pitts can watch changes in gray-green Onion Creek as it riffles by. This is the same creek that twice in 2015 flooded poor neighborhoods in Southeast Austin, but here, miles upstream, on a windy, dry late January day, it wends...