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Every spare moment since summer I had been editing the second edition of my wildflower book. And now North Central Texas Wildflowers, Second Edition is finished! The paper book will be available for purchase on Amazon on Monday, December 11, 2023. However the pdf is now available for free. The second edition has 427 species…
The ravines give a glimpse of what goes on beneath our feet. Maybe that is why I am so enthralled with them. More tomorrow, but not from a ravine. Some of you know that I have been working on the printed second edition of North Central Texas Wildflowers. FYI it will go live in eight…
The last record of a wild Passenger Pigeon was March 24, 1900. In fact, rewards were offered by the American Ornithologists’ Union for finding a nest. The effort was futile. A captive bird named Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden on September 1, 1914. She was 29 years old. Billions of the Passenger Pigeons…