Discover drought-tolerant native desert trees—whitethorn acacia, catclaw mimosa and screwbean mesquite—that shelter songbirds ...

Texans sensing spring coming in on the breeze can start planning their drought-tolerant gardens now. A new app by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation (TWPF) gives free tips on planting native ...

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The National Parks Service said in a Jan. 27 news release that it will remove invasive trees in Big Bend National Park, along the Rio Grande and the park’s hot springs area. From Feb.

Texas has adopted an unconventional but proven method to control invasive plants. A herd of 300 goats was brought in to clear ...

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Communities in Somaliland are turning the fast‑spreading prosopis tree from an environmental threat into a valuable resource.

Why do Texas grackles congregate in great gregarious mobs at parking lots, parks, airports during the winter?

The red-crowned Amazon is a beautiful parrot, but despite populations in the U.S., it may be going extinct in its ancestral ...

While goats aren’t known for being picky, they tend to gravitate toward plants that are flowering. At this point in the year, ...

In May, South Dakota sent 84 youth to the National Land and Range Judging Contest in El Reno, Oklahoma. Out of the 34 states that competed, only Texas came close to matching those numbers ...