Outdoor

By Russell A. Graves North of Dalhart there isn’t much to stop the wind. A vast prairie cleaves horizontally into an even bigger sky. If you get past the row crops and out to the […]

By Andy Anderson  Every year they lurk in the grass, lying in wait for their next victim. You don’t know they are there; they don’t let you know they are invading your body until it’s […]

By Tony Dean  Purpletop tridens is a native, perennial, warm season bunchgrass that is found across all of Texas except the extreme western areas. It grows in most of the U.S. from the central plains […]

By Russell A. Graves Gripping the gun and slipping from my truck to the edge of the tangled underbrush was as close as I could come to time travel. My nephew at my side, we […]

By Andy Anderson During the summer, one of my favorite things to do as a kid was run the creek bottoms around the house. Growing up in the country, the neighbors lived a few miles […]

By Tony Dean  The lack of summer rains over much of North Texas this year deprived some of us of viewing many of the showy forbs native to our prairies. Some of the plants were […]

By Russell Graves Road trips are always epic for me. I live in the Texas Panhandle where chronic dryness and drought are the rule. Aside from an intermittently running river and a handful of farm […]

By Andy Anderson Hog calling has become very popular. With the use of technology, blue tooth speakers and smart phones, calling is as real as ever. I was introduced to hog calling by Glenn Guess […]

By Russell A. Graves When Texas was just a burgeoning state, fantastic tales of human-like creatures permeated the folklore. “In the spring of 1845 when going to my work one morning I discovered the tracks […]

By Tony Dean In August of 2015, we introduced this “Grazing North Texas” series by highlighting one of our most important forage plants, Sideoats grama. On this third anniversary, we will take a closer look […]