Central Texas is home to a number of water snake species, but only one of them is venomous — the Western Cottonmouth, otherwise known as a water moccasin. Unfortunately, nonvenomous water snakes are often killed because they are mistakenly identified as cottonmouths and perceived as a life threat...

SBCA’s March Happy Hour Talk will feature legendary environmental activist Susana Almanza, a founding member and executive director of PODER, a local grassroots group focused on environmental, economic, and social justice issues. Susana will be speaking with us about one of the most important eve...

We have some great news to report in our years-long campaign against Hays Commons, a proposed subdivision that Milestone Community Builders wants to construct over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. Last week, the Austin Planning Commission declined to consider a proposal to let Milestone build i...

  If you wanted to build a big subdivision in a really bad place, where would you put it? Would you build it in a place with lots of rocky gaps and cracks on the ground that would allow dirty surface water to seep into the Edwards Aquifer, which provides water for hundreds of residential wells a...