Monthly Archives: September 2016

Bee Cave – The Wild and Scenic Film Festival, the nation’s premier environmental film festival, is coming to the Texas Hill Country this fall with three screening events the whole family will enjoy. The theme of the festivals will be “Celebrating Hill Country Rivers,” and the featured films will celebrate individuals and communities coming together and taking action for the protection and restoration of our natural resources. October 19th at the Odeon Theater in Mason, Texas 6:30pm – 8:30pm. Tickets…

As the United States’ first official “Monarch Champion City” – a unique designation by the National Wildlife Federation for cities that adopt all of the federation’s 24 recommendations for Monarch conservation – San Antonio will host a fun and educational celebration in honor of the winged insects that travel through the city on their multi-generation migration from Mexico to Canada and back again. The Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival, which will take place from Oct. 20-22 at the Pearl and the Instituto Cultural de México, will highlight…

As more and more people move to the Texas Hill Country, native plants and animals will need special sanctuaries to call their own. The board members who run one such wildlife haven, the private 644-acre Cibolo Preserve in Boerne, offered an exclusive look inside the sanctuary last week. The tour followed the passing of San Antonio entrepreneur and philanthropist Bill Lende, who died earlier this month at 78. Inside are native prairies, ancient oaks and cypress trees and a high-quality…

The Hill Country Alliance hopes to be part of the solution for how our rural communities can solve complicated problems like the one that occurred in Junction last month. On August 26th, the City of Junction Water System issued a Boil Water Notice to all of its customers because of a failure in the system. On August 28th, the city lost its ability to distribute water to customers at all. Junction was without water, negatively impacting local businesses, schools, health…

The Hill Country Land Trust has hired Jennifer Lorenz to be their first full time Executive Director. “I am thrilled to come on to an organization that has been doing great things before I got here; including having 20 fantastic permanent land protection agreements already under its belt. AND as a testament to its hard-working board, was one  of the very first organizations nationally to become Accredited. An absolute attestation of how this volunteer board works.” Read more from Jennifer…