by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Habitat Conservation Plans, Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Wildlife
The engineers were used to building overpasses for vehicles, not wildlife. But every spring and fall, collisions with mule deer and pronghorn spiked in the Pinedale region of Wyoming, where Route 191 disrupted the animals’ age-old migration paths. So the state...
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Legislature and Regulation, News
The Department of Health and Human Services released $166.6 million in federal funds for a program to help low-income residents pay off their past-due water bills or to reduce their water rates. The new program — temporary for now, though some Democrats want permanent...
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Community, Equity in the Outdoors, Legislature and Regulation, News
Climate science is having its moment. With the recent administration changes, climate change is getting attention at the national level through much-needed bold and ambitious federal policy developments. “We must listen to science — and act,” the Biden administration...
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Groundwater Resources, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Conservation, Water Resources
Across the Hill Country, residents and visitors depend on the groundwater stored in the Trinity Aquifers as water supply and to provide baseflow through springs that keep iconic creeks and rivers flowing. Residents have a voice through the regional planning process to...
by admin | Jul 13, 2021 | News, Planning and Development, Water Planning, Water Resources
SJW Group (NYSE: SJW) today announced that its Texas subsidiary, SJWTX Inc., which does business as Canyon Lake Water Service Company, is planning to acquire the Kendall West Utility operating in Kendall County and the Bandera East Utility in Bandera and Medina...