Outdoor

By contributing writer Russell Graves When I was a kid, I remember going to the movie theater in downtown Bonham, Texas, and watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was my first time to […]

By Lisa Bellows. Ph. D., North Central Texas College Basket-Flower, Centaurea americana is a member of the Aster Family and is having a grand time along our roadways and pastures this summer. The underside of […]

By contributing writer Jerry Williams It was 13 February 1682 where the Illinois River entered into the icy waters of the Mississippi River. Twenty Frenchmen, a few Europeans and some Native American Indians began their […]

By contributing writer Dr. Lisa Bellows, North Central Texas College   Some of our showiest native wildflowers, paintbrush or Castilleja, include multiple species and often confuse the novice wildflower enthusiast when they see the beautiful […]

By contributing writer Jerry Williams Advanced movie technology began to emerge in the western genre when the show “Wild Wild West “appeared on the screen. Western star Robert Conrad portrayed James West, a “James Bond” […]

By Contributing writer Russell Graves It’s remarkably dark on top of Mount Locke, as well it should be. At 6,800 feet above sea level, the air is clear and thin. When I was there in […]

By contributing writer Lisa Bellows, Ph.D., North Central Texas College Coneflowers are drought-tolerant perennial plants which will soon be adding color to the prairies and roadsides in our region. These wildflowers have spiny central discs […]

By Jerry Williams Chapters in history tend to overlap one another and some survive, while others do not. The force of change almost annihilated the buffalo. However, Mother Nature and naturalists have rescued them. Their […]

The eighth annual Turkey Fest in Henrietta, Texas hosted 5,000 festival-goers on April 12, 2014. The 2014 festival featured 5,000 festival-goers, over 300 Full Strut Banquet attendees, 38 hunters and 6 pro-teams. New to the […]

By contributing writer Russell Graves Over the past three decades, the population reached a critical mass and everywhere pigs can live, pigs probably exist. “There are but two kinds of landowners in Texas: Those with […]