Who among us in Texas has not shared a tale (possibly a tall one) of a jaguarundi sighting? Whether a first-hand account or a retelling of what a nearby rancher…
kolenickJanuary 3, 2022
“It is akin to a viral pandemic, swallowing up chunks of what few can accurately describe with words, few thoroughly understand, but what used to be waves of bluebonnets and…
kolenickNovember 12, 2021
In 1949, Warner Bros released Fast and Furry-ous, a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Thanks to the Road Runner and his clever ways, always…
kolenickSeptember 9, 2021
Up to 80% of all plant species are pollinated mostly by insects. Crucially, three quarters of the world’s most common human food crops require insect pollination. No small task for…
kolenickAugust 5, 2021
Grocery stores, food trailers, restaurants, delivery services, and farmers markets all make accessing food easy for most of us but finding and harvesting food in the wild is its own…
kolenickJuly 8, 2021
Because the properties we help manage cover a variety of ecoregions, from the rugged to the pastoral, questions we receive from landowners typically run the wildlife gamut. But in the…
kolenickJune 7, 2021
But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook…
kolenickMay 4, 2021
At the end of March, a Black-chinned Hummingbird buzzed by a window in Dripping Springs, Texas, beneath which a large, lush Salvia greggii (Autumn sage) would normally be in bloom,…
kolenickApril 6, 2021
When we wrote last month’s blog, Texas Trees and Shrubs: Leaf Out, little did we know what lie in store just a week later when a historic freeze plunged Texas,…
kolenickMarch 4, 2021
