by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | Conservation Easements, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, News, Scenic Beauty
I first started to get excited in late December 2019 when I first heard about the City of Fort Worth’s new, Open Space Acquisitionsprogram. After watching the City Council work session video, I could tell they were serious. District 7 Rep, Kelly Allen Gray,...
by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | Conservation Easements, Economics of Sound Planning, Groundwater Resources, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Native Landscapes, News, Planning and Development, Public Lands, Regional Planning, Scenic Beauty, Water Catchment Areas (Watershed), Water Planning, Water Resources
San Antonio should keep a program aimed at protecting the Edwards Aquifer if voters choose to shift sales tax money that funds the program to instead boost public transit, city officials said Wednesday. Mayor Ron Nirenberg has sought to settle the fate of the Edwards...
by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | HCA in the News, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
After review by the International Dark-Sky Association Board, the City of Fredericksburg’s application to become an International Dark Sky Community was unanimously endorsed. “The IDA works to protect the night skies for present and future generations by requiring...
by admin | Mar 2, 2020 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Wildlife
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been discovered in a 5 ½-year-old white-tailed deer in a Kimble County deer breeding facility, marking the first positive detection of the disease in the county. The tissue samples submitted by the breeding facility as part of routine...
by admin | Mar 1, 2020 | Aggregate Production Operations, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development
Comal County residents are suing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop the construction of a quarry they say will pollute the air with a lung-damaging contaminate. Stop 3009 Vulcan Quarry and Friends of Dry Comal Creek filed a lawsuit in Travis County...
by admin | Feb 29, 2020 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Water Resources, Wildlife
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is asking anyone who reels in tilapia at two San Antonio lakes to not return it to the water. There is apparently a lot of tilapia, a non-native species of fish that have been taking over freshwater lakes and rivers in Texas,...
