State of Wilderness

Author: keely

  • I Spy

    Last week at work, I saw an unusual bird hanging out in the mid-foliage range in our little mini-forest that borders one side of the property.  It was striking in appearance, and of course I wanted to solve the mystery of what it was, since birds have been on my brain lately.  Without a field…

  • Taking In Lake Texana

    This past weekend, we went camping at Lake Texana State Park and had a great time.  This park is about two hours southwest of Houston, off of Hwy 59 in Granado. We wouldn’t normally go camping back to back weekends, but this trip was a special one.  We had committed ourselves to helping with the…

  • Huntsville State Park

    We celebrated New Years Eve weekend at Huntsville State Park, located in (you might guess) Huntsville, Texas, which is about an hour drive north of Houston.  This park joined the state park system in 1938, yet much work remained in the park at that time.  Most of that work centered around the building and then…

  • Book Recommendation: Last Child in the Woods

    Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv, is a quintessential handbook to the ways that the natural environment impacts children.  Over the three hundred so pages of text, Louv makes a case for why nature is important, what the benefits are to not only children but all of us, and how this “frontier” has…