Kerrville
Daily
Times Columns
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Archive: 2016 and earlier here |
Date
Published |
Title |
Subjects/Key Words |
12/30/2017 |
The Effects of European Man on the Ecology of the Hill Country |
Overgrazing,
Overbrowsing, Cedar Encroachment |
12/23/2017 |
Local Environmental Groups to support in this "Season of
Giving" |
Nature
Centers, Hill Country Alliance |
12/16/2017 |
Encouraging Signs in Hill Country Land Management |
Reduced
stocking, Rotational grazing |
12/9/2017 |
What
Did the Hill Country Look Like Before Europeans Came Here? |
Grass, Trees,
Predators |
12/2/2017 |
Animal Migrations in the Hill Country |
Birds, Bats,
and Monarchs |
11/25/2017 |
Books Recommended for Winter Reading and Holiday Gifts |
"Hill Country
Ecology" |
11/18/2017 |
Common Hill Country Trees Other Than Oak |
cedar elm,
hackberry |
11/11/2017 |
How Man Can Alter Our Native Habitat -- For Good or Bad |
fencing
animals in or out |
11/4/2017 |
Some Friendly Snake Stories |
Texas rat
snake, coachwhip |
10/28/2017 |
How
Many Deer Are Too Many? |
Habitat
destruction, Malnourished deer |
10/21/2017 |
Invasive Exotic Plants to Avoid |
Ligustrum,
Chinaberry |
10/14/2017 |
Random
Thoughts About Rain |
Rainfall,
Erosion |
10/7/2017 |
What the Experts Are Saying About Taking Care of the Hill Country |
Loss of
habitat, Land Fragmentation |
9/30/2017 |
Nature Is
Always Changing....Which Makes It Interesting |
Galls,
Goldfinches Daises |
9/23/2017 |
My
Favorite Fall Flowers |
Maximilian
Sunflower, Liatris |
9/16/2017 |
Plants That Bloom After A Rain |
Cenizo, Retama,
Zexmania |
9/9/2017 |
What Is Ecology? Why
Is It Important? |
Ecology,
Ecosystem, Habitat |
9/2/2017 |
What Can You Do To Help Take Care Of Our Hill Country Habitat? |
NPSOT, HCMN,
RNC |
8/26/2017 |
Screwworm
Fly Eradication: Local Lab Played Major Role In Eliminating the Pest
From Texas |
Screwworm Fly
Eradication |
8/19/2017 |
Plant Succession -
How Mother Nature Rearranges Her Landscape, and How We are Involved |
Plant
Succession |
8/12/2017 |
Misconceptions We Have About Nature |
Goldenrod,
Ragweed |
8/5/2017 |
Some Common But Inconspicuous Small Native Plants |
Frog Fruit,
Straggler Daisy |
7/29/2017 |
How To Conserve Water AND Save Your Plants This Summer |
Drip
Irrigation, Mulch |
7/22/2017 |
Do Plants
Have Calendars? What About Insects? |
Agaves,
Circadas |
7/15/2017 |
What Do Our White-tailed Deer Think About All These Exotics? |
Animal
Behavior |
7/8/2017 |
Rainwater Harvesting: The Basics of Why and How |
Rainwater
Harvesting |
7/1/2017 |
The Backyard Creek |
Recirculating
Water |
6/24/2017
|
Some
Light, Airy Small Native Trees for Your Landscape
|
Desert Willow, Eve's Nacklace
|
6/17/2017
|
Aldo Leopold's Five Tools of Land Management
|
Axe, Plow, Cow, Fire and Gun
|
6/10/2107
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Native
Hill Country Vines: Sometimes Forgotten Parts of the Landscape
|
Grape, Greenbrier, Virginia Creeper
|
6/3/2107
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The Evolution of Thinking about Cedar
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Invasive Brush, rainwater, interception
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5/27/2017
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The Texas
Hill Country: Are We Loving it to Death
|
Land Fragmentation
|
5/20/2017
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The
Importance of Mulch, Leaf Litter and Ground Cover
|
Soil Temperature
|
5/13/2017
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Rainwater
Catchment: It's More than Tanks and Rain-Barrels
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Rain Barrels, Rain Gardens
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5/6/2017
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How the Condition of the Land Affects Runoff and Erosion
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Erosion, Grass Cover
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4/29/2017
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Twenty Years in the Life of a Spanish Oak
|
Saplings, root sprouts
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4/22/2017
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Buckeyes... An Interesting Group of Plants
|
Three compartment seed pods
|
4/15/2017
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Owls -
Fascinating Creatures
|
Ownl, Special Anatomy
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4/8/2017
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Spring
in the Hill Country
|
New Vegetation, Flowers
|
4/1/2017
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Trees - Special Parts of Our Lives
|
Special Trees
|
3/25/17
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Invasive Plants
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Opportunistic plants
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3/18/17
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It is Leaf Exchange Time for Live Oaks
|
Catkins
|
3/11/17
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Can We Really Live on Less Natural Resources?
|
Wind energy, rainwater harvesting
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3/04/17
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Wildlife Habitat In A Small Backyard
|
Attracting birds
|
2/25/17 |
Ecology 101 for Hill Country Landowners |
Diversity |
2/18/17 |
Harbingers of Spring |
Forb Rosettes |
2/11/17 |
Native Habitat in Our Backyard |
Attracting birds, Native
Habitat |
2/4/17 |
Going-Going-Gone |
Habitat Loss, Exotic
Species |
1/28/17 |
Our
Native White-Tailed Deer are Resourceful |
Spineless prickly pear |
1/21/17
|
There
is Good Grass Cover This Year
|
Healthy Grass Plants
|
1/14/17
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Balancing
Fire Protection and Native Vegetation
|
Defensible space
|
1/7/2017 |
Land
Fragmentation: Is There Enough Room for All of Us?
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