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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) sent out a reminder last Tuesday that livestock producers in more than 200 counties in Texas may be eligible for financial assistance due to grazing losses due to drought in 2023. Assistance may be sought via several different programs including the Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP), Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP), the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP), or the Emergency Haying and Grazing Conservation Reserve Program.

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Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is Laya. Did you hear that? Laya’s listening ears are on, and she’s on high alert.

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The second edition of “Mammals of the Trans-Pecos Texas Including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks” by Texas A&M University Press is an indispensable update to the 1977 book by author David J. Schmidly. The new edition, which is a collaboration of four different authors, Franklin D. Yancey, II, David J. Schmidly, Richard W. Manning, and Stephen Kasper, reaffirms its status as a must-have resource for naturalists, researchers, and anyone passionate about the biodiversity of one of the last frontiers, the Trans-Pecos region.

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