Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above Don't fence me in Let me ride through the wild open country that I love Don't fence me in…
kolenickJune 15, 2020
It’s a different kind of spring for all of us this year. The rules of social distancing even apply to those of working in the great outdoors. Landmark Wildlife Management…
kolenickApril 9, 2020
Named for their use of “masonry” such as mud to build their nests, mason bees are not to be confused with carpenter bees. Though both are, undoubtedly, busy bees. Unlike…
kolenickMarch 5, 2020
Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks. It is specially fond Of a puddle or pond. When it dines or sups, It bottoms ups.…
kolenickFebruary 7, 2020
The holidays are over, the Christmas lights are put away (or at least you’ve rationalized by now how it’s really quite cheery to have them up year round), and football…
kolenickJanuary 9, 2020
You may have noticed the large, wrinkled, green “oranges” recently, littering the ground around big barren trees or, almost impossibly, still tenaciously clinging to scraggly, leafless limbs. As a kid,…
kolenickDecember 11, 2019
Ah, the willow. It’s elegant, elongated branches gently swaying in the breeze is the stuff of children’s books and poetry. Ah, willow baccharis. It’s elegant, elongated branches gently swaying in…
kolenickNovember 6, 2019
Not too long after you leave the city limits of Fredericksburg, Texas, heading west toward the town of Harper, you see it—long stretches of trees devastated by oak wilt. Completely…
kolenickOctober 8, 2019
“Fox with rabies enters Texas home, attacks woman” That succinct headline from earlier this month told most of the story. Rabies is a zoonosis, a disease that is transmitted from…
kolenickAugust 9, 2019
