Long Star Ranch

06/29/2020

Outdoor learning!

The need for social distancing due to coronavirus means now is the time for schools across the world to embrace outdoor learning.

12/03/2019

Today is Deer Field Day with 200 students. Thanks to the Volunteers from Texas A &M College of Veterinary Medicine for helping to teach Bernham kids.

11/19/2019

A lesson in controlled burning.

11/19/2019

Today is Quail Field Day for BISD students. Thanks to the Texas Wildlife Association, the Gideon Lincecum Master Naturalists, and all the people who make this a great learning experience for the kids.

10/23/2019

Research has repeatedly suggested that spending time in natural environments improves mental and physical well-being. Now, scientists are gathering the data needed to incorporate this phenomenon in health-care guidelines.

08/29/2019

To understand how trees transform, dendrochronologists, researchers who study change in trees, have developed a few techniques.

Using new technology, researchers can watch as trees grow, shrink, drink, and breathe.

07/12/2019

“Trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see.”

07/03/2019

Trees are our friends.

“When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy.”

06/12/2019

Early European explorers left the continent with visions of gardens in their heads: The Garden of Eden, the Garden of the Hesperides, and other mythic realms of abundance, ease, and endless repose.