![A close-up of a pair of Houston toads, one more sharply in focus. The toads are living on an organic looking medium. They have spots along their brownish red faces and stripes down their front legs.](https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Houston-Toad-AP120404167948-scaled.jpg)
Setting Fires to Save the Houston Toad
An environmental film festival spotlights a Central Texas land trust’s effort to bring back endangered species.
Since 1954
An environmental film festival spotlights a Central Texas land trust’s effort to bring back endangered species.
Clinton Crockett Peters’ fondness for unpopular species may well temper some of our deepest prejudices.
A new atlas of Texas ecology reveals how thoroughly humans have woven ourselves into the geography of the state, for good and for ill.
How graywater could be a conservation method for the masses. (But isn't.)