Tag: Range Poisons
Report Finds Traces of a Controversial Herbicide in Cheerios and Quaker Oats
“Of course glyphosate is in Cheerios: It’s in everything. Because grape growers use Roundup® (glyphosate) to suppress weeds between vines, most wine has glyphosate residue – as does beer. Cotton growers use it to defoliate …
Guadalupe County Begins Feral Hog Bounty Program
Feral pigs would be valuable assets for landowners if we went back to the rules that applied until 30 years ago, which allowed feral pigs to be sold into the commercial food chain. Imagine getting …
Ecosystem Essential: The Prairie Dog Town
Prairie dogs are a keystone species. Over 150 other species depend on them as food, and, the habitat which they create. Five species of prairie dogs were once common across the central and western grasslands …
Monarch Butterfly, Bee Decline Discussed at Capitol Hearing
According to the testimony reported below, honeybees and Monarch Butterflies are being harmed by genetically modified crops (GMOs) for two reasons. First, cotton no longer has pollen on which bees can feed. Second, the poisons …
Pando—the Earth’s Most Massive Organism—Is Shrinking
Declining forests and rampant forest fires are symptoms of bad forest management. In the face of these escalating symptoms, politicians, bureaucrats and agencies offer their catch-all excuses — global “warming” and “invasive species.” To combat …
Book Review: Microbia … The Many Tiny Worlds Among Us
These principles are as applicable to rangeland and wildlife management as they are to home gardening.
A&M Cotton Research Could Open New Front in War on Weeds
Hybridization of plants and animals is as old as agriculture and a good thing unless it attacks nature. Instead of producing modified plants that withstand weeds and parasites the international agrogiants like Monsanto/Bayer turned GMO’s …
Coffee Beans Are Good for Birds, Fancy Brew or Not
As described in this article, naturally-raised coffee tastes better. And the practices that produce better tasting coffee benefit birdlife. Few Americans realize how much better naturally raised foods taste. Or that our Industrial Agriculture with …
Mowing Encourages Yearly Return of Grasses and Wildflowers in Texas’ Roadways
The reason that Texas’ roadways are brush free, have excellent grass cover and lots of wildflowers is because at just the right time of their growth – once or twice per year – they …
Uprooting FDR’s ‘Great Wall of Trees’
This article highlights the environmental mentality of the modern farming methods taught in our universities. As described below, farmers are destroying the Northern Great Plains shelter belts which the WPA planted – for their benefit …