In 2020, Jennifer L. Bristol took her readers on a guided tour of how best to watch birds in parking lots around the U.S. state of Texas. Now she’s back with a second field guide that will lead them into an even more overlooked category of location for where productive bird watching may be practiced: cemeteries.
The first trip I made to the U.S. state of Texas was in order to attend the Rio Grande Valley Birding & Nature Festival. Since then, I have made many return trips to America’s most iconic state, and each time I do, I discover yet another unexpected aspect of its astonishing ecological diversity.
The American Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, is found from east Texas, throughout much of the gulf coast states – including all of Louisiana and Florida – in portions of Missouri, and to the eastern halves of Georgia and both Carolinas; however it is those in Texas that biologist Louise Hayes has been studying since 1985.
“As a people we have the right and the duty, second to none other but the right and duty of obeying the moral law, of requiring and doing justice, to protect ourselves and our children against the wasteful development of our natural resources, whether that waste is caused by the actual destruction of such resources or by making them impossible of development hereafter.”