Month: September 2020

• Summer’s Snakey End

  It was September12, with ten days of summer left to us before the autumn equinox, and so we decided that the last outing of summer ought to be spent at the LBJ National Grasslands, in Wise County. It was some combination of work on this book I’m writing about spending time in nature, and just […]

  Michael Smith

  September 25, 2020

  In the Field

  LBJ National Grasslands, Snakes

• Guiding Another Group of “Rangers”

  Yesterday, on a slightly muggy early September day, I walked the bottomlands at Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge with this year’s class of Cross Timbers Master Naturalists. We “met” last week via Zoom as I conducted the class covering reptiles and amphibians, mostly looking at Powerpoint slides in which I tried to convey as […]

  Michael Smith

  September 6, 2020

  In the Field

  Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, Gulf Coast Toad, Master Naturalists, Ribbonsnake