Local Wildlife: Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Forum & Random Photos

This beautiful creature is a lesser prairie chicken (from the wikipedia article)

I received an email from Julie Hodges today to let me know about a forum to educate landowners on conservation efforts and recommendations for the lesser prairie chicken. As a young kid, I was fortunate enough to see these birds a few times when I was out riding my bicycle and chasing toad tadpoles. I must've been twelve or thirteen. Even at that age, I remember being struck at their beauty and just the oddness of seeing them. Unfortunately, that was the last time I saw a prairie chicken in the wild.

More info here: Landowner Lesser Prairie Chicken Forum (If you register early, there is even a free lunch in the deal.)

Wikipedia: Lesser Prairie Chicken

And the random stuff:

Here is the reason I envy the offices around here with windows - birdfest!

This little lady was dining near our porchlight last night.

May you and the lesser prairie chicken thrive!

It looks like we have to move away from Lubbock :-)

(A red-eared slider)

"Yep, no tree-hugging, granola-munching hippie types here."
                                                                              Maria Scinton

10 Lubbock Stereotypes That Are Completely True

My wife shared this article about Lubbock with me. Strangely enough, I did live in District 3 until the boundaries were recently changed. I feel so lonely!

To be fair, one of my best live music memories was hearing Stubbs sing "House of the Rising Sun" while Guy Forsyth played the harmonica at Stubbs Barbecue.

For the record, trees are our one and only earthbound hope at having oxygen for future life on this planet. I plan to keep hugging them - not for their sake, but for all carbon-based life forms - even the people who are working so feverishly to destroy life for all in pursuit of temporary money. If you take out the trees and pollute the water - both of which we are doing at an astounding rate, you destroy all life. It is simple math. 

May the lesser prairie chicken live long and prosper, and may you as well.

PS - I am pretty neutral on the subject of granola.