Posted by admin | Sep 25, 2016 | Groundwater Resources, News, Water Planning
The story of water and Texas starts here. San Antonio sits atop the Edwards Aquifer, one of the most abundant artesian aquifers in the world. It supplies water to more than 2 million people and thousands of farmers in the region. Spread underneath the land of South...
Posted by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Cedar/Brush Management, News
The Hill Country Land Trust has released their second video in a series of videos on land management topics. This video takes a look at how best to utilize and control Ashe Juniper (Cedar trees). Many landowners are concerned about juniper’s ability to overwhelm...
Posted by admin | Sep 23, 2016 | Drought, News, Public Lands
“It’s a place of delicate balance between fiercely competing plants, many living at the edge of their geographic ranges and tolerances for temperature and aridity. It’s an ecosystem on a knife edge, dependent on regular rains and steady temperatures. So in 2011,...
Posted by admin | Sep 19, 2016 | News
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...
Posted by admin | Sep 17, 2016 | News
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...