Rural Texas
Waco Has an Ice Age Nursery, Preserved in Fossils
Waco Mammoth National Monument preserves evidence of a Columbian mammoth nursery herd, while ongoing research revises the story of how fossils were deposited.
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Rural Texas
OLD TEXAS: Before It Was Seguin, It Was Walnut Springs
A Texas town named for a revolutionary, a nineteenth-century concrete legacy, the workers who built it and a giant pecan that became a local landmark.
Rural Texas
You Can Find an Ancient Sea Reef High Above the West Texas Desert
The Guadalupe Mountains preserve the Capitan Reef, built in an ancient Permian sea and later exposed by uplift and erosion.
Rural Texas
A New Screwworm Case Moved the Quarantine Line in West Texas
An October 3 TAHC order revised Zone 13.C in portions of Brewster and Pecos counties after a canine detection. What animal owners need to know about movement requirements.
Rural Texas
Texas Is Open Range—Until a Local Vote or Highway Changes the Rule
A livestock owner’s responsibilities can depend on an election held generations ago, the animal involved and the road beside the property. Texans may need to examine their own county’s records to determine which restrictions apply.