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Puerto Rico Adventures #1: Bio-Bay
We’ve been home for over a week, recovering from our latest adventure. It took us a while to come back because we were really exhausted from lack of sleep, and then from trying to play catch up with work and the house maintenance. Part of me feels like the Facebook pictures say it all, but…
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WG Jones: The Namesake of Our Favorite Forest
This morning, a group of intrepid geocachers hiked along the front part of the south side of the W.G. Jones State Forest Area. A total of fifteen finds were had, including five different kinds of cache hides (traditionals, letterboxes, puzzles, multis, and an event cache). Even though it was approaching 95 degrees in the Texas…
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Proyecto Titi: Saving the Cotton Top Tamarins Through Sustainable Practices
I just returned from a primatology conference in Puerto Rico, and of all the lectures I attended, my favorite one was one that had little to do with my day-to-day work, but shared some fascinating information that I want to share with you. Okay, so here is the deal: my favorite animals are dogs, horses,…
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Environmental Issues: Burials and Cremations
In the beginning of the book “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, the main character, a nine year old boy, muses on the increasing world population in terms of where there will be room to bury all the dead. He throws out the idea that there are more people alive right now than have died in…