For 10 years, I’ve been a certified scuba diver. While I can’t claim that I’ve been to all sorts of exotic, international locales to explore underwater haunts, the activity is...
By Tony Dean The abundant moisture during early months of 2015 has favored many plants including vine mesquite. Vine mesquite is considered a sod-forming grass. It reproduces from underground rhizomes...
By Tony Dean It is fitting that we introduce this “Grazing North Texas” series with one of our most important grasses, Sideoats grama. In addition...
By Russell Graves A couple of weeks after my first visit, I am again with Eidson at the Clymer Meadow. This time, however, we listen to...
(Photo: A day-long program on school integrated pest management will be held July 28 in Building C of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at...
By Russell Graves Despite the bad news, acres of pristine prairie do remain. Sixty miles northeast of Dallas, nestled between Blue Ridge and Celeste, are a...
By Lisa Bellows, Ph.D. Buttercup? Nope, it is a primrose. Every year I hear someone refer to this pink beauty as a buttercup. Botanically speaking buttercups...
By Russell Graves Across the continent the Great Plains is a huge swath of land that incises mid-America from northeastern Mexico to the southern Canadian provinces...
By Lisa Bellows Would you call a palatable pasture plant that contained 20% protein a weed? Most of us pay about $10 a bag for that...
By Jessica Crabtree Living in rural America, we sometimes take things for granted. This initial quiet, beautiful scenery and open sky are among the top few....