by James Bennie Recently, I read the new book Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake which is about the latest research findings on Fungus. Thus I had mushrooms on my mind when this current rainy spell hit. I remember previous unusually wet periods with sustained storms that resulted in quite a flush of mushrooms of all sorts. One year I…

by Linda Butcher JUNE 10 – New moon and eclipse of the moon. Unfortunately, it will only be a partial eclipse in our area. JUNE 21 – Summer Solstice. The sun will have reached its most northern position in the sky. It is our first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere.  Full Moon photo by Jim Bonser  JUNE 24 -Full Moon…

by Dr. Tim and Ki Brush Green Jays and Clay-colored Thrushes are two tropical bird species which folks can see in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and adjacent areas of South Texas. They are part of the tropical flavor of the Valley! They are well-known to live in natural habitat, but people have been seeing…

by Tamie Bulow Hunter Lohse and his father, David Lohse, are TMN members from the Class of 2015. Hunter is currently a Master of Landscape Architecturestudent at the University of Arizona and will graduate in 2022. Hunter participated in the UArizona 2021 Student Showcase and won Second Prize in both the Sustainability and Environmental Impact Categories. His project, Free Water: An Analysis of Potential Impacts of Large-Scale Residential Rainwater Harvesting, shows how single-family homes in…

by Frank Wiseman Among the first plants we placed in TMN’s planting of the Runyon Garden in Harlingen’s Hugh Ramsey Park was a wild zinnia. At the time, I believe that is what we called it. In 2007, I joined a group of the Native Plant Society of Texas members on a special bus trip…