Tag: nature notes

-National Park Service photograph A Water-Lover at Home in West Texas By Andrew Stuart

Native Plant Society Guide Is a Companion for Cultivating a High Desert Garden By Andrew Stuart The high, arid land of Far West Texas is a...

Mesoamerica and the Southwest in Prehistory By Andrew Stuart They were more than a thousand miles from the Aztec cities they'd conquered, but when the Spanish...

At Guadalupe Mountains National Park, A Painter Works at the Intersection of Art and Science By Andrew Stuart Guadalupe Mountains National Park launched an artist-in-residence program...

Photograph courtesy Al Braden, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Sotol is an emblematic Chihuahuan Desert plant, and its distilled spirit is a distinctively...

Spring's Music: Learning to Identify, and Imitate, West Texas Birdsong By Andrew Stuart It's a curious thing to say about creatures that are in fact dinosaurs,...

Big Bend’s Native Plant Society hosts its spring sale May 4 in Alpine. By Andrew Stuart The plains and deserts bloom. Birds whistle and sing. There...

For Burrowing Owls, West Texas is a Hub in an Epic Migration By Andrew Stuart They're diminutive, less than a foot tall, but their claim to...

Spring's Sweet Song: Cassin's Sparrows in West Texas By Andrew Stuart The land lies parched. The prairie grasses are brittle. After months of dry winter weather,...

Monahans Sandhills: A Serene, and Surreal, Landscape Amidst the Bustling Permian Basin By Andrew Stuart It's a place of serenity, a West Texas landscape with the...