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When visiting College Station, take a nature break at Lick Creek Park. The 523-acre city park, located in the Post Oak Savannah area, features five miles of hiking trails and the Gary Halter Nature Center.

The Central Texas Mycology Society collects and recycles mushroom blocks discarded by small commercial growers of gourmet mushrooms and gets them into the hands of hobbyists, gardeners and home cooks.

Ever wonder what happens to e-waste? Green Source Texas reporter John Kent toured Universal Recycling Technologies in Fort Worth, the largest electronics recycling operation in the Southwestern U.S. The nearly 200,000 square foot plant diverts 10 million pounds of e-waste per year.

Texas environmentalists are mourning the loss of J. David Bamberger, a Texas conservationist who died Saturday, Jan. 17, at his home Selah Bamberger Ranch near Johnson City. He was 97.

The group would include large power users who’ve been waiting a long time for interconnection and don’t need further study. It’s ERCOT’s first attempt at a new planning process in which multiple requests will be considered simultaneously.

The Welman Project in Fort Worth just celebrated 10 years as it prepares to move to a 25,000-square-foot building, five times the size of its current location. Since the organization began tracking its inventory in 2017, Welman has distributed more $14 million worth of goods to more than 3,400 schools and 550 nonprofits, diverting the equivalent of 1,700 dumpster loads of materials from landfills.

In December, 160 elephant researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world — plus 20 who joined virtually — gathered at the Fort Worth Zoo for the 21st International Elephant Conservation and Research Symposium. The event was organized by the Azle, Texas-based International Elephant Foundation and hosted by the Fort Worth Zoo,

The Texas Agricultural Land Trust has grown into the largest state-based land trust in Texas. TALT will host a trail run at the Fall Creek Ranch in Granbury on Jan. 31.

Camille Lee, owner of Wear Em Out Tees, is doing her part to ensure that reusable T-shirts don’t go to waste. Her Dallas-based online company specializes in upcycling “pre-loved” tees and new shirts destined for landfills.

Professors from across disciplines at the University of Arlington at Texas are crisscrossing the state and country to the South Texas Gulf Coast and as far as California to study air samples, changing fault lines and more.