Posts Tagged ‘Texas’

National Park Service Parktips – March 2010

National Park Service
Parktips – March 2010
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You can also [...]

Saturday: Women in Herps with Tracy Barker and Cindy Steinle

Tracy Barker and her husband Dave have run Vida Preciosa International out of Texas for longer than Tracy would like to admit. Her first snake was a reticulated python at the age of 15, from Trooper Walsh. She never turned back. Tracy has been …

EIGHTH ANNUAL HIGH PLAINS SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL IN LAMAR

EIGHTH ANNUAL HIGH PLAINS SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL IN LAMAR
LAMAR, Colo. – The city of Lamar and the Colorado Division of Wildlife will co-host the eight annual "High Plains Snow Goose Festival," the weekend of February 25-28.  The popular event [...]

Parktips – January 2010

National Park Service
Parktips – January 2010
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You can also [...]

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park America’s Best Idea: National Park Getaway

National Park Service News Release
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park America’s Best Idea: National Park Getaway
Contacts: Al Remley, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park,
Al_Remley@nps.gov, 210-534-8833
Elise Cleva, NPS Headquarters, Elise_M_Cleva@nps.gov,
202-208-6843
Date: December 16, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – “Remember the Alamo!” Many travelers to San Antonio already do; they know before they arrive that they want to visit [...]

Guadalupe Mountains National Park America’s Best Idea: National Park Getaway

National Park Service News Release
Craig Tanner, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Craig_E_Tanner@nps.gov,
915-828-3251 ext. 112
Elise Cleva, NPS Headquarters, Elise_M_Cleva@nps.gov, 202-208-6843
December 4, 2009
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
America’s Best Idea: National Park Getaway
SALT FLAT, Texas – Within driving distance of El Paso, Texas, and Carlsbad, N.M., the land, with its golden undertones and shades of brown, rises into what looks [...]

Parktips – December 2009

National Park Service
Parktips – December 2009
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You can also [...]

Several rare rattlesnakes stolen

On Monday a large number of rare rattlesnakes were taken from Robert Bryson Jr. of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, from his facility in Texas.

For more information and to be kept up to date on any developments, please visit the thread on ou…

LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN CONSERVATION WORKSHOP IN LAMAR

LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN CONSERVATION WORKSHOP IN LAMAR
LAMAR, Colo. – Conservation of lesser prairie-chickens will be the subject of a workshop at the Division of Wildlife Office in Lamar Nov. 12, from 4-8 p.m.   The [...]

LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN CONSERVATION WORKSHOP IN LAMAR

LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN CONSERVATION WORKSHOP IN LAMAR
LAMAR, Colo. – Conservation of lesser prairie-chickens will be the subject of a workshop at the Division of Wildlife Office in Lamar Nov. 12, from 4-8 p.m.   The [...]