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OUTDOORS: Land stewardship week arrives
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is partnering with the Association of Texas Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Texas Wildlife Association and Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board to highlight land stewardship and water availability this week.
The statewide campaign is called, “Land Stewardship: Providing Water for Texans.”
Soil and Water Stewardship Week will run through May 3.
“Water supply is always a ‘hot topic’ issue in Texas,” said Jan Thompson, of the Stewardship Committee of the Association of Texas Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
Thompson said the campaign is meant to bring more awareness and support to voluntary land stewardship, resource management on private lands and public consumption.
Effective land stewardship increases the ability for open land to absorb water, replenish aquifers and ensure better water drainage into springs, rivers, lakes and streams.
Methods of land stewardship are grazing on ranches, use of cover crops by farmers, wildlife enhancement and the removal of invasive brush species.
Soil and water conservation performed in urban settings also may help supplement land stewardship in rural locales.
Here are other methods of land stewardship: Using plants that require little landscape or water and identifying and fixing leaks at your home.
The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District is one of the partnering organizations in this campaign.
For more information, log onto the website: www.tsswcb.texas.gov.
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A positive culture can be tough to install but will reap dividends if done correctly.
Trinadee Imotichey is trying to do just that with her Forestburg Lady Longhorns.
Imotichey, an assistant coach on the 2025 Forestburg volleyball team, was moved into the head coaching position. Last year’s coach, Cori Hayes, took over as football head coach.
Imotichey, in her 2nd year in Forestburg, said she learned a lot from Hayes and is ready to take over.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Bowie’s summer softball league team overcame a 6-1 deficit with a six-run third inning for a 7-6 win over Bridgeport in its season opener July 6.
The league consists of teams from Bowie, Nocona, Lindsay, Bridgeport, and Alvord and will last three weeks. Bowie will host games each week.
Bowie pitcher Hazel Trahern gave up two singles and a groundout to put the Sissies on the board in the first. It would be the only hits she gave up in the game. Two groundouts and a strikeout got the Lady Rabbits out of the jam.
Bowie got the run back in the bottom of the first with Andee Jo Miller opening the frame with a walk and a stolen base. She then scored on Kynlee Baker’s groundout to tie the game at one.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Rest. Run. Repeat.
Sage Keck, an 8th grader at Montague, lives by this mantra. No ifs, ands and buts about it.
She’s been running since fourth grade PE classes where she would run a mile every week. After discovering she could outrun the other students, she began to enjoy it and continued doing it.
Her success continued, as she finished 2nd overall against more than 200 runners at the Old Saint Jo 5K July 4. In last weekend’s Texas Junior Olympics, she reached the pinnacle of her career so far by qualifying for the United States of America Track and Field (USATF) National Junior Olympics in Norwalk, Calif. in three events.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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