Filed under: Deserts, Texas, Writing | Tags: arthur magazine, off-the-grid, sustainability, Terlingua Green Scene, Verde Terlingua
In April of 2009 I traveled to Terlingua, a remote border settlement in the Chihuahuan Desert of Far West Texas, to spend time with the DIY homesteaders and off-the-grid outsiders who were getting down together for the first annual Terlingua Green Scene. I’m in the process of publishing my account of the wild times I had there in Arthur Magazine.
Read the first installment, “No Winners, Only Survivors,” at the Arthur Magazine website. More chapters are on their way, so stay tuned.
For more of my reporting and photography about the Marfa “drug blimp” and other paranoid visions from this unique region of the Lone Star state, check out “Dread Zeppelins: Letter from West Texas,” also in Arthur Magazine.
Filed under: Flora, Forests, Mountains, Old Growth, Texas | Tags: Davis Mountains, Far West Texas, Nature Conservancy, pinus ponderosa, rocky mountain ponderosa pine, Texas Big Tree Registry, texas champion trees, western yellow pine
Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine, aka Western Yellow Pine
Pinus ponderosa
Circumference: 134 inches
Height: 110 feet
Crown spread: 46 feet
This Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine located in the Nature Conservancy’s Davis Mountains Preserve of Far West Texas is believed to be the largest known example of its kind left standing in the Lone Star state. It was added to the Texas Big Tree Registry in 2006.
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