Stephanie Bilodeau, Conservation Biologist with Coastal Bay Bend and Estuaries Program periodically asks for help removing invasives and planting natives on the spoil islands in
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Many new TMNs shy away from the Latin names of plants. I remember whining, “Why can’t we use the common name for this? I don’t know how to pronounce that.”
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by Alejandra Gomez I have always been fascinated by frogs! It was in my early, formative years of junior high school, where I was introduced
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They all look the same — but wait, magnificent birds are distinguished one from one another — but it’s all in the details . . . .
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Welcome Home Winter Texan publication — Find the joy in building a community butterfly garden. Story and photos by Anita Westervelt
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There’s nothing quite so mystical as a crisp, heavy-dewed, humid, 73-degree morning at first light. The fences, shrubs, trees and anything that didn’t move during