by admin | Jan 7, 2019 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, News
The Hays County Master Gardener Association will hold a Master Gardener Training Course on 12 Fridays in spring of 2019. The Master Gardener Training Program is an educational/volunteer program conducted by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service designed to increase...
by admin | Nov 2, 2018 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Native Landscapes, News, Water Resources, Wildlife
AUSTIN – As flood waters recede in the Llano, Colorado, Pedernales and other central Texas rivers, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists are fielding questions from anglers and other members of the public concerning the impacts of flooding on fish...
by admin | Oct 1, 2018 | County Authority, Land Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines
One of North America’s largest pipeline companies is looking to cross Gillespie County with a natural gas pipeline stretching from the Permian Basin to near the Gulf of Mexico. Kinder Morgan officials told the Standard-Radio Post on Tuesday it is or will soon be in...
by admin | Sep 23, 2018 | Land Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, Legislature and Regulation, News, Scenic Beauty, Transmission Lines & Wind Farms
Conflicts between energy producers and conservationists are nothing new in Texas, but a recent fight in Val Verde County centers around wind farms and whether they belong in one of the wildest natural areas left in the state. Members of the Devils River Conservancy,...
by Karen Ford | Aug 29, 2018 | Land Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, News, Wildlife
For some Texans, there’s big money in deer. Breeding and raising whitetail deer, running deer hunts on ranches, it’s all part of a multibillion-dollar industry. But since 2015, deer breeders and the state have been locked in an old-fashioned standoff. Texas Parks and...
by Karen Ford | Aug 29, 2018 | County Authority, Land Stewardship, News, Planning and Development
In early 2017, homeowners in Sandy Harbor, a waterfront community in the Highland Lakes chain where Lake Lyndon B. Johnson meets the mouth of Sandy Creek, called Kevin Collier about a problem: sand. There was so much of it that it was preventing some of them from...
