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Ken Bridges Greer County was an early battle between Texas, Oklahoma

Ken Bridges Greer County was an early battle between Texas, Oklahoma

TEXAS HISTORY MINUTE: Red River fork of Texas or Oklahoma?

The Texanist: Do You Miss the Texas County That Is Now Part of Oklahoma?

The particulars of the Adams-Onís Treaty, it turns out, were greatly aided by a map that was produced by one John Melish, a traveler, merchant, author, and cartographer of Scottish origin who ended up being the first mapmaker to create a coast-to-coast charting of the United States. But Melish also is known in the annals of history for a cartographical blunder that both misplaced the 100 th meridian by a hundred or so miles to the east and failed to recognize the seemingly obvious fact that the Red River, in the general vicinity of the 100 th meridian, is split into multiple forks: the North Fork, the Elm Fork, the Salt Fork, and the southern Prairie Dog Town Fork. (For those who are not currently looking at a map, the region in question is roughly where the Texas Panhandle’s vertical, eastern border with Oklahoma intersects with the somewhat horizontal portion of the Texas-Oklahoma border that is more or less traced by the Red River.)

Pasture-cropping practice could improve soil health, resiliency

Pasture-cropping is designed to regenerate the soil beneath established pastures. Texas A&M AgriLife-led research to analyze effectiveness and economics of pasture cropping. Adopting the ecologically sensitive, low-cost conservation management pasture-cropping practice could help landowners regain the health and resiliency of soils sustaining degradation over the years. Pasture cropping, a relatively new and innovative land management system, integrates direct seeding of cool-season annual crops into dormant perennial warm-season grasses. It was pioneered by Colin Seis, an Australian farmer. Now the potential for implementation of the practice in the Southern Great Plains is being investigated by a Texas A&M AgriLife-led team of researchers through the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, NIFA, grant-funded project “Enhancing Soil Ecosystem Health and Resilience Through Pasture Cropping.”