by admin | Aug 21, 2021 | Community, County Authority, Hill Country Tourism, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning
In the not-too-distant past, motorists driving along a stretch of Interstate 35 just northeast of San Antonio were met with vast fields of wildflowers and grazing cows in grassy pastures. Today, the cattle are gone, replaced with clusters of sleek apartments, gated...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning
On September 8, Wiley & Sons will release the second book in the Strong Towns series: Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: A Strong Towns Approach to Transportation. Chapter five is about building great streets and how it is essential, if we want places that are...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | Community, Equity in the Outdoors, Legislature and Regulation, News
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $167 million in 12 states to deploy broadband infrastructure (PDF, 360 KB) in rural areas without sufficient access to high-speed internet....
by admin | Aug 18, 2021 | Community, Drought, Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, Low Impact & Sustainable Development, News, Public Lands, Water Conservation, Water Quality, Water Resources
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of the world’s leading climate scientists, released its sixth climate assessment on Monday. The 1,300-page paper is the most comprehensive, up-to-date report yet on the physical science of climate change,...
by admin | Aug 18, 2021 | Community, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Native Landscapes, News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK — The high, lonesome dunes that run up against the Rocky Mountains at 7,500 feet above sea level in southern Colorado are a long, long drive from the closest streetlight, and after dusk, the almost untainted darkness and thin, dry air...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Community, Events, HCA in the News, News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Deep within each of us is a memory of breathtaking awe and wonder. Within each of us is a recollection of that first time we found ourselves speechless, under a canopy of deep night and starlight. It might have been at a star party, under a planetarium dome, or while...
