Aldo Leopold, the father of the wildlife ecology, spelled out his land ethic in stark and simple terms. Land management is done right, he wrote, “when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty” of…

Under a gazebo in the South Texas Plains area at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, Michael Eason, who collects and curates the garden’s vast array of native plants, is addressing members of the …

Nearly a month after a catastrophic storm with hail the size of baseballs pummeled Central Texas, half of the roofs in an office complex in Round Rock are still topped with…

In Old Settler's Park in Round Rock, loggerhead shrikes make their homes in small trees next to asphalt streets and busy playing fields. "There's tons of human activity, packed parking lots, lots of people on the…

“Okay, now, everyone together! Let’s go!” Craig Hensley, Texas Nature Trackers biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife shouted the starting gun…

Pronghorn, named for the prongs on their horns, are neither antelope nor goats despite their Latin name, Antilocapra americana, which means American antelope-goat. They are the only…

As daylight hours shorten each fall in the Texas Hill Country, the leaves of bigtooth maples transition from green to hues of bright yellow, orange and red. The brighter the leaves…

Since 1992, Dean Hendrick­son, a fish expert at the University of Texas at Austin, has been studying Mexican blindcats (Prietella phreatophila), endangered aquifer-dwelling catfish that are about the size…

A 150-acre prescribed burn intended to prevent wildfires in Bastrop State Park escaped control …

At the crack of dawn on a perfectly clear Wednesday morning in November, Craig Hensley, a Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist, was joined…

Memories from tubing on one of Texas’ cool, spring-fed rivers tend to stick. Robert Cooper, in his seventies, recalled one about floating down the Guadalupe decades ago…

Buying land surrounded on three sides by a creek, a lake and the Gulf of Mexico might seem like folly  in a time of unprecedented flooding…

“What the United States did towards native people is a genocide,” said Professor Scott Langston…

Bill’s body shook as he quietly cried during an interview in June. The 69-year old was sharing his reaction to antiretroviral drugs that became available…

Despite Texas gaining more people than any other state in the past decade, more than half of its counties lost population, according…

As I enter Lockhart, a huge red steel building on my right - home of the legendary Kreuz Market - signals my arrival in 'The Barbecue Capital of Texas."