Posted on April 10, 2018 by KK
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Travis County in Central Texas is 30°18′ north latitude and 97°45′ west longitude. The Texas Northern Blackland Prairies make up the majority of my bioregion but the Edward’s Plateau Woodland, Llano Uplift, Limestone Cut Plains and…
Category: Blackland Prairie, Central Texas, Ecoregion, Habitat Management, Sustainable Movement, Texas Tags: Austin, bioregion, Blackland Prairie, Central Texas, Central Texas Bioregion, Central Texas Trees, copperfield trail, Ecoregion, Edward's Plateau, Fall, fossilized seashells, Greenbelt, kayak austin, Savannah Ecoregion, Texas, Travis County, Walnut Creek
Posted on March 29, 2016 by KK
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Three cover crops that are perfect for the soil in the Blackland Prairies ecoregion in Central Texas, include buckwheat, peas, and crimson clover. The benefits of peas and clover cover crops include adding nitrogen back into the soil. Peas…
Posted on February 5, 2016 by KK
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Our first records of weather tracking from the U.S. Weather Bureau were from 1898 for relative humidity, winds and temp. It wasn’t until radiosonde initiatives were launched in 1938 that we were able to test temperature,…
Category: Sustainable Movement Tags: 1934, Agriculture, America, cattle ranching, Colorado, Dust Bowl, erosion, Forest Service, Great Depression, Great Plains, Henry Wallace, History of Agriculture, Kansas, Lewis Gray, New Agricultural Reform, New Deal Agricultural Conservation, New Mexico, NYC, Oklahoma, Rexford Tugwell, Roosevelt, Shelterbelt Program, Soil, Soil Conservation Service, sustainable, sustainable agriculture, Taylor Grazing Act, Texas, U.S. Weather Bureau, wheat farming