by admin | Jan 7, 2019 | News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Regional Planning, Scenic Beauty
FREDERICKSBURG — Hank Sauer reminisces about the 18 years he’s owned these 45 acres a few miles south of Fredericksburg — hunting deer with his now-17-year-old grandson, spending holidays there with the family, and dreaming of spending the rest of his days with his...
by admin | Jan 4, 2019 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Serbian artists Ivana Jelić and Pavle Petrović have reimagined Van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night as an LED installation over the canals of Amsterdam, to highlight the issue of light pollution in urban areas. A series of 1,400 acrylic rods illuminated...
by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
Forget going out to view your neighborhood’s Christmas lights this year: You can do it the 21st-century way, bathed in the pallid glow of a monitor. That’s because NASA has just released a wonderful bunch of satellite images of American cities, gleaming...
by admin | Dec 19, 2018 | Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty
More than 80 Hays County landowners—and hundreds more across the Hill Country—either have already or will soon be contacted by Kinder Morgan, Inc., one of the largest energy infrastructure companies on the continent, asking for permission to survey their property to...
by admin | Dec 19, 2018 | News, Night Skies, Scenic Beauty
The City of Murrieta, California earlier this month became the first of 11 Riverside County cities to obtain ownership of thousands of streetlights that will be retrofit with LED fixtures to minimize light pollution, enhance public safety and save approximately $60...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | News, Night Skies, Planning and Development, Scenic Beauty
The stars at night are big and bright … for now. But encroaching development and lights are making our views of the nightly heavens less heavenly. But several communities and individuals are working to see that this part of the Hill Country can still focus upward for...
