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All posts tagged: Texas
Net Zero Natural Gas Plant — The Game Changer
Instead of subsidizing the feel-good mirages of solar and wind, those who want clean, cheap energy should devote these funds to making fossil fuels cleaner. The method described below would transform carbon emissions. Similar methods […]
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Acornseekers Brings Jamón Ibérico to Texas
Free-range Spanish pigs, living on natural forage including acorns, produce pork that is celebrated by gourmets around the world. In Texas, anti-competitive regulations and bureaucratic red tape effectively prevent Texans from marketing free-range “feral” pigs, […]
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Bounty Program Looks to Help Control Texas’ Feral Hog Problem
For thousands of years, wild and domestic animals have been sold as food. Because this “bounty” works so well, stopping market hunting is the first thing we do to protect the wild species. Human […]
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Understanding the Effectiveness of Aerial Wildlife Surveys
This article makes very good points about the limitations of aerial surveys of wild animal populations. An unmentioned limiting factor in aerial survey accuracy is that helicopters are routinely used to kill ‘exotic’ animals […]
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Bird Deaths a Setback in Texas Feral Hog Poison Testing
It turns out Texas’ latest wonder poison was a Pig in a Poke. Times Record News reports: “Field testing of a new feral hog control method experienced a major setback recently after nearly 200 birds […]
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Farmers Across High Plains Brace for Hard Times as Drought Bears Down
On the Southern Great Plains dry spells are normal. Although farmers and ranchers can’t make it rain, they can keep soil healthy, to make the most of what rain they get. Any home gardener knows […]
Read moreDiscovery of Ancient Spearpoints in Texas Has Some Archaeologists Questioning the History of Early Americas
It seems as if every month brings fresh archaeological evidence to push back the dates of human arrival in North America.
Read moreTPWD Habitat Survey at Circle Ranch
In late fall of 2010 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department conducted a habitat survey at Circle Ranch, to see if our many cattle and other species including so called “exotics” were harming habitat through “competition”. […]
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