A passion for parks: This Texas family loves the outdoors and knows how to write about it
Father George Bristol writes about parks and politics, daughter Jennifer Bristol a about birding and Texas women in conservation.
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Father George Bristol writes about parks and politics, daughter Jennifer Bristol a about birding and Texas women in conservation.
Birding from parking lots is the subject of a book, one of several new nature-themed books available just in time for spring.
Check out these 10 titles to learn more about the wonders of nature, or join the Big Country Master Naturalists in person at Abilene events.
Austin 360 Right before 9 a.m. on March 6, five or six purple martins swooped acrobatically in the wind above the Austin Water Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend. It was a good sign. The first migratory birds of spring had begun to arrive in Central Texas. To prepare for this annual feathery visit, which peaks in late April, I hit some of the area’s top birding spots on multiple mornings not long after the winter storms. Given the travel deficits imposed by the pandemic, this 12-day tour — actually 15, but one was spent hopelessly lost and another two were harried by rain ...