COLLEGE STATION — Enjoying a forest’s fall colors may seem like a simple pleasure, but knowing why they are so pleasurable and how to keep them that way is another matter. Yet, it’s a matter of no little importance in the United States, where forest managers must balance the needs of recreational users with timber…
COLLEGE STATION — Approaching the brink of extinction, the Attwater’s prairie chicken is celebrating life with the hatching of 22 chicks at Texas A&M University. The chicks are among the first to be successfully hatched in captivity, according to Dr. Nova Silvy, upland game management researcher at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, a unit of…
COLLEGE STATION — Earth Day will mean birth day for about 10 Attwater’s prairie chicken, one of the most endangered species in the world. The chicks are expected to begin pecking out of their shells late Friday, according to Dr. Nova Silvy, upland game management researcher at Texas A&M University and leader of the federal…
COLLEGE STATION — A lack of moisture so far in Texas this winter may have put a damper on Africanized honey bee activities despite overall mild winter temperatures. Inspectors with the Texas Apiary Inspection Service have been coming up dry in trap checks throughout the state all winter. And the state Honey Bee Identification Lab…
CORPUS CHRISTI — Robert Vega’s career as a marine biologist along the Gulf of Mexico has been coasting. With a family, a job and no access to advanced education in his field, Vega’s hopes for a doctoral degree were an ocean away. But a new agreement between the Corpus Christi and College Station campuses of…
COLLEGE STATION — They look like perfectly formed factory Christmas trees stuck in dirt. But the only thing artificial about these living tannenbaums is the way life began — as clones rather than seedlings. The first of several hundred cloned Virginia pines growing in Texas soil are ready this year to deck the halls in…
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Ray Frisbie, an expert in integrated pest management, has been named head of the entomology department at Texas A&M University. “Dr. Frisbie has been a national leader in the sciences of entomology and will continue to make enormous strides toward an even greater awareness of entomology and related sciences internationally,” said…
COLLEGE STATION — Texas Apiary Inspection Service officials are busy rerouting trap lines across the state to compensate for the closure of a federal agency’s Africanized Honey Bee program. “We’re in the process of putting up some more traps. I believe we’ll pick up west of Austin to Ozona and from San Angelo to Killeen,”…
