El Nino 2023

In “El Nino forecasts are climbing” (KPRC’s Click2Houston.com, 17May2023), Frank Billingsley and Amanda Cochran write: “By the end of the year, the European Model has at the very least a moderate El Nino with perhaps an extreme one. “What can we learn from any of this? Get flood insurance. I’m not being flip. The extreme …

Fires & Controlled Burns

In “Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area,” they write: “Paleoecological evidence strongly suggests fire was a common occurrence on the Montague Plains from 500 to at least 2,000 years before European settlement. Throughout North America, prehistoric Native Americans used fire as a landscape management tool to increase browse and mast for game species, drive game, increase …