"Texas can boast a high turtle diversity with three species that naturally occur only here and nowhere else. In fact, Texas is home to almost half of the turtle diversity in the United States! With [the state's] rapidly growing population, it is becoming more important now than ever to educate people young and old about…
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Active Adult Center by Grace Darling
Excerpt from the February, 2017 Arlington Conservation Council Post Oak Newsletter page 12, see http://www.acctexas.org/downloads/ACC-2017-02.pdf On February 14, the Arlington City Council will decide whether to have a bond election in May asking voters to fund the proposed Active Adult Center. Readers are urged to view a recent presentation on the subject by Lemuel Randolph,…
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Keeping Village Creek-Lake Arlington Water Safe and Clean
By Aaron Hoff, Watershed Coordinator and Environmental Scientist for the Village Creek-Lake Arlington Watershed Protection Project of the Trinity River Authority A longer version appeared in the 2016 Arlington Conservation Council Post Oak Newsletter page 10, see http://www.acctexas.org/downloads/ACC-2016-11.pdf For more details, see Aaron Hoff's presentation at the November ACC meeting at ftp://ftp.trinityra.org/pub/Aaron/VCLA_WPP/Workshops/ACC_Presentation/ Note: Village Creek…
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Arlington’s Chester W. Ditto Golf Course by Grace Darling
Excerpt from the February, 2017 Arlington Conservation Council Post Oak Newsletter page 12, see http://www.acctexas.org/downloads/ACC-2017-02.pdf We were too late to the party, they said. The course makeover was in the works for many years and city officials had held multiple discussions about it. We should have paid attention, they said. We should have realized that…
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