Teacher Workshops aren’t just for school teachers. Three RGVCTMN members attended a recent Texas Wildlife Association L.A.N.D.S. Outreach Teacher Workshop held at Estero Llano Grande. Other Valley venues held this training, too. The instructor was Elisa Velador, the RGV Region TWA Educator — who also happens to be a new chapter member. L.A.N.D.S. stands…

  There’s a lot of mystery here in our special Valley. On foggy, humid mornings, I wander out to a bejeweled, sparkling fairyland of — spider webs!                                   Orbweaver webs — they’re everywhere — fences, vehicles, furniture, plants and…

  On April 12, Christina Mild led a small group of Ramsey Park’s Ebony Loop Thursday morning volunteers along narrow, man-made trails through Old Growth Arroyo Brush in the acreage belonging to McAllen’s Dr. Glatz. This tour is not an exclusive opportunity for a select few. Fellow Texas Master Naturalist chapter member Dr. Glatz has…

  This has been an exciting winter on the Resaca. Our little horseshoe lake, as the map calls it, has attracted new visitors. Last year, an Osprey moved in. He’s commandeered a wonderful perch on a dead branch of a huge mesquite tree between the driveway and the Resaca. On sunny days, I see him…

  Exact terminology is important when words are defined in regard to specific disciplines. For those logophiles (people who love words) who insist on knowing, without question, what something means in context to what one is learning, here are words commonly encountered when listening to native plant lectures or reading favorite plant books. Native —…

  “I like vultures,” a friend said when I mentioned my blog idea. “They kettle and they’re easily identified.” They are, except when not yet in full adult uniform and hulking on a dead mesquite branch, head hunched Dracula-cape-esque. A sight I had one morning exiting the garage. Up close, the hulk was huge. Condor…