San Antonio’s Parks & Recreation Department got an earful from dozens of residents joining a weekend site tour of proposed bond project construction at Brackenridge Park. They have one last shot at stalling the project.
Bird populations are crashing. City lights are a major culprit. But ‘Bird City Certified’ San Antonio isn’t dimming its downtown—it’s turning on the River Walk’s holiday lights two weeks early.
Two years ago, the City of San Antonio launched a war on the birds of Elmendorf Lake. The target was the hundreds of cattle egrets who have been roosting at this Westside ecological gem for decades. By razing the island to the ground, and dismantling possibly hundreds of nests, the assault destroyed
City relies on dubious air strike data and public health threats for mass eviction of protected migratory birds.
Greg Harman
Walking in the morning with the sound of the highway
A Close Reading of “Another View: Why We Support Moving Egrets from Elmendorf Lake Park.”
Editor’s Note: In an epistolary take on the traditional op-ed, Kamala Platt below
Bird-dispersing chemical warfare comes to the Westside’s little Aztlan, our ‘place of herons.’
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series. Click here for
