Prairie dogs live in large communities that spread for acres on the shortgrass prairies of Texas, their heads popping up from the circular dirt mounds around their burrow entrances.
Read More »A busy day in a prairie dog town
Digging up the past: prairie restoration at Sheldon Lake
An innovative archaeological dig has revealed the park's original wet prairie, buried by years of farming and development.
Read More »Out with the new, in with the old: prairie restoration at Sheldon Lake
A fierce battle is under way to vanquish invasive grasses and restore the prairie's native landscape.
Read More »Booming Prairie Chickens at the Attwater Refuge
An early morning visit to the breeding grounds of the endangered Attwater's Prairie Chicken.
Read More »Jupiter and its moons at McDonald Observatory
On a visit to the McDonald Observatory in West Texas, I gazed at Jupiter and the Orion Nebula and traveled in the footsteps of Galileo.
Read More »It’s not pretty, but it’s pretty big
This Brazoria County tree is not as attractive as the previous state champion live oak, but it's bigger.
Read More »Dung beetles do a job nobody wants
Dung beetles are nature's waste haulers, removing tons of livestock droppings from a pasture in a matter of days.
Read More »Nutria: the adorable menace in Hermann Park
Nutria are either cute and furry or the next worst thing to a fire ant.
Read More »Crowdsourcing bird sightings at eBird
Know what birds are where and when to look for them with Cornell University's amazing eBird site.
Read More »A big, scary alligator downsized to cute
The predators that are eating them now will become their prey in a few years.
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