by admin | May 21, 2019 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Native Landscapes, News, Scenic Beauty
In 1969, a San Antonio fried-chicken tycoon was struck by a life-changing idea: He would find, buy, and heal “the sorriest piece of land in the Hill Country.” Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Bamberger Ranch Preserve sprawls across 5,500 acres of grassy hills...
by admin | May 21, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Water Planning, Water Resources
Nearly two years after Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Texas coast, the Texas House approved legislation Thursday that would pull more than $3 billion from the state’s rainy day fund to help pay for flood control projects statewide. The House version of Senate Bill...
by admin | May 20, 2019 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty
Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan would very much like to route a pipeline over the aquifer and through the woods, grandmother’s house be damned. Or condemned, as the case may be. We are talking about KM’s planned Permian Highway Pipeline, a 430-mile-long, 42-inch-diameter...
by admin | May 20, 2019 | Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, News, Planning and Development, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Resources
It’s spring again, the time of year—for the 300th time in some instances—when New Mexico communities come together to clean the acequias, irrigation channels that carry snowmelt from the mountains to newly tilled farm fields. Each annual cleaning is one more...
by admin | May 20, 2019 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Scenic Beauty
After six hours of trekking through cappuccino-colored muck last week, a team of cavers entered a previously unexplored 600-foot-long passage inside Natural Bridge Caverns. The passage, located 145 feet underground, is full of mineral-rich pools of water bordered by...
