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Prehistory and New Technology Join Forces

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

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New technology brings prehistoric Texas to life at Dinosaur Valley State Park. Our SP guide Bryan Frazier has details.

58— Dinosaur Valley State Park, by Glen Rose, Texas—it’s SW of Ft. Worth—has been famous for years for its dinosaur footprints in the Paluxy riverbed.

Well, we’re launching a phone app for that this fall that people can download for free, so that when they walk through the park—their smart phone that they downloaded to—will vibrate and let them know when they’re near one of the points of interest.

And you can click through video and audio and written documents and all kinds of updated information that is real time. You can do an interpretive tour at your leisure. And it’s just a great story because it really hasn’t cost the park any to develop this.

The park’s friend’s group, and then the community of Glen Rose got involved and provided the funding for this. And then the ad sales from local businesses can be on there and it’s a source of revenue for our park. So, everybody wins with this. And this technology seems to be the wave of the future and Dinosaur Valley is embracing it.

Thanks, Bryan.

That’s our show for today…with funding provided by Chevrolet, supporting outdoor recreation in Texas; because there’s life to be done.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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TPW TV–Lone Star Land Stewards

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

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Texas landowners who take extra effort to conserve and improve their land. Meet some of them the agency honored with the Lone Star land Steward Award this month on the TPW TV series. Producer Alan Fisher.

Coming up in November, we’ll visit a different a LSLS Award winning ranch each week, including the Leopold Conservation Award Winner—the Temple Ranch in South Texas.

There’s a good number of hens, and there’s a flock of about 15 males.

The Temple Ranch, particularly appropriate for November, they have amazing turkey habitat. The turkey have rebounded amazingly on their ranch, thanks to the things that they have been doing.

We do a variety of things to manipulate the habitat. We do a lot of roller chopping, disking, shredding… One of our most important tools is prescribed burning. It really helps forbes and grasses and brush control to a point, too.

I think one thing that a viewer could take away is that whether it’s a very small property, or a huge ranch with many thousands of acres, there are little things that really do add up to make property better places for wildlife. The temple Ranch segment airs the week November 6 through eh 12th. If you happen to miss these segments on the TV show, you can also view them on our Parkws and Wildlife YouTube channel.

Thanks, Alan.

The Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration Program supports our series.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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