Interesting episode about the over-arching history of our area. Show description: “It’s our privilege today to have author Dan Flores on the podcast. Dan Flores is A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus of Western History at the University of Montana. A distinguished historian of the American West, he is the author of the best-selling books Coyote …
In “Battle Oak legacy trees planted at historic Woods Cemetery in northwest Houston” (Houston Chronicle, 5 March 2020), Melanie Feuk writes: “After the American Civil War, people who were formerly enslaved moved from Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina to a community in west Houston called Piney Point. Families left Piney Point in the early 1870s …
Houston Wilderness has a nice Houston Atlas of Biodiversity online, a 100+ page booklet about geology, history, plants, animals, ecological regions, and more.
In “New research shows how wolves survived Pleistocene extinction” (The University of Ottawa’s Fulcrum, 6Feb2022), Emma Williams wrote: Based on Landry’s research she found that “they were eating the same types of material in the Pleistocene as they do now or recently (1960). So a lot of the scratches (those linear features) would show us …
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An enjoyable book I just now finished listening to on Audible. It was some poetic, well-crafted, beautiful writing in it. Recommended. You can see awards it won and recommendations it earned on its Amazon page.