Posted by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | Community, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development
2021 was the second year of the pandemic. The Texas Legislature met in regular session, as usual, but then followed that session with three special sessions on issues that had to be done (redistricting) and on issues lawmakers didn’t address during that 140-day...
Posted by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | Habitat Conservation Plans, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Land Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Wildlife
When a group of researchers at Texas A&M’s Natural Resources Institute published the first peer-reviewed study that surveyed the presence of a brightly colored Texas songbird across a huge swath of Texas, the results were astounding: The population of the...
Posted by Ryan Ament | Nov 30, 2021 | Drought, Land Conservation and Stewardship, Legislature and Regulation, Local, Sustainable Agriculture, News, Water Conservation, Water Quality, Water Resources
An old fight over water is coming to a boil in Central Texas, a fight with all the conflict and character of an old western movie. There are farmers up in arms and big-city charmers, empire builders and nervous politicians. The very life of the prettiest river in...
Posted by Ryan Ament | Nov 30, 2021 | Drought, Legislature and Regulation, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Water worries are a central element of growing concerns about climate change, which sometimes contributes to meteorological situations with far too much rain and sometimes to others with way too little. Either way, both flooding and drought/heat wave conditions, along...
Posted by Ryan Ament | Nov 30, 2021 | Legislature and Regulation, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Quality, Water Resources
Water infrastructure systems across Texas are falling into disrepair. This year, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the state’s drinking water infrastructure the not-so satisfactory grade of a C-minus. And as Texas’ population continues to grow, experts say...
Posted by Ryan Ament | Nov 20, 2021 | HCA in the News, Legislature and Regulation, News, Water Conservation, Water Planning, Water Resources
Here’s something we don’t get to say very often: It’s been a promising month for water in the Hill Country. With record sprawl pushing ever westward from I-35 and climate change threatening an age of Texan megadroughts, the water future of the Hill Country has looked...
