By Emma Montgomery The Llano Estacado, meaning the “Staked Plains,” is one of the largest plateaus on the North American continent, according to the Texas State Historical Association. This grand landscape covering the panhandle of Texas houses the southernmost tip of High Plains of North America. Here, a short-grass prairie with plentiful flat miles boasts […]
Tech Researchers Act to Conserve Elusive Texas Kangaroo Rat
August 29, 2023 by
By Samantha Stuhr On a sunny and blistering hot day in July, a small group of researchers who dare to face the heat are getting packets of seeds (each weighing 3 grams exactly) out of a mud-ridden white Texas Tech Natural Resource Management truck with a dent on the side and pouring them into trays […]
A Blooming Impact
November 16, 2016 by
By Samantha Brookes Most of the time there are fully bloomed, colorful flowers on the Texas Tech University campus, and almost never dead ones. This is ensured by the maintenance crews who plant the flowers already blooming and then replace them when they start to fade. The changing of the flowers on campus, though not as […]
Texas Tech Students, Professors Study Monarch Butterflies
April 3, 2015 by
Monarch butterflies have wingspans of about 4 inches, which carry them thousands of miles on an annual migration to wintering grounds in Mexico and Southern California. Scott Longing, an assistant professor in the department of plant and soil science, said these butterflies will fly back down to Mexico, where their great-great grandparents were born. “They […]
Lubbock Water Inefficiently Pulled From Many Sources
January 22, 2015 by
“We have been in a historic drought for the past few years, but even before that, we’ve been using water from the Ogallala Aquifer at a rate which is not sustainable.” “Even before that we’ve been using water from the Ogallala Aquifer at a rate which is not sustainable.” Julie Hodges, the Helen Devitt Jones […]
