by admin | May 27, 2021 | Conservation Easements, Economics of Sound Planning, Habitat Conservation Plans, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Landowner Alliances, Legislature and Regulation, Native Landscapes, News, Planning and Development, Water Planning, Wildlife
Texas is home to a variety of unique, productive, and biologically thriving landscapes from the Piney Woods in the east to the arid mountain vistas in the west. Each year, these lands are the root of hundreds of thousands of jobs that help generate billions of dollars...
by admin | May 27, 2021 | Community, Conservation Easements, Habitat Conservation Plans, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, Native Landscapes, News, Planning and Development, Public Lands, Regional Planning, Scenic Beauty, Water Planning, Water Resources, Wildlife
The Hays County Parks and Open Space Advisory Commission (POSAC), which was created in 2020 and recently restarted, is seeking additional project submissions that would be funded by Proposition A, a Parks & Open Space Bond, approved by voters in the November...
by admin | May 21, 2021 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Native Landscapes, News, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty, Wildlife
One of nature’s most extraordinary spectacles unfolds in the 10,000-foot-high conifer forests of Michoacán, Mexico. In mid-November, swirling orange-and-black clouds appear in the skies above the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a 139,019-acre sanctuary carved out...
by admin | May 21, 2021 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, News, Wildlife
Early one winter morning in 2020, Kurt VerCauteren discovered a cluster of dead birds in a barren field in northwest Texas. They were small birds, mostly dark-eyed juncos, but also a smattering of white-crowned sparrows. VerCauteren’s team had poisoned them,...
by admin | May 17, 2021 | Community, HCA in the News, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Water Planning, Water Quality, Wildlife
Lizard-like amphibians with elongated bodies and tails, short limbs and external gills are the focus of scientists keeping tabs on groundwater health in Rebecca Creek. In April, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority (GBRA) staff headed out to the area with U.S. Fish and...
by admin | May 10, 2021 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Wildlife
Wild pigs are an invasive species that can cause damages to private land, water quality and other wildlife populations. For ground-nesting birds, wild pigs pose a real threat to nest success and population numbers. Recent research documented that wild pigs readily...
