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HIO GRANDE HERALD-Thursday, D«ceaber 24, 1994, Pate 4
Worldwide web can be used
to pursue hunting pasttime
The Spanish II classes of Jesus A. .Martinez at Rio Grande City High School created
unique Christmas cards in Spanish to express what the holiday meant to them.
Samantha Elizondo (left) and Romeo Benavidez proudly display some of the cards
made by the classes. (RGCCISD photo)
STCC receives grants for
medical technology program
South Texas community College
recently received $206,367 in grants
from the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San
Antonio and the Texa.s Department
of Health for expansion of the
College's Emergency Medical
Technology (EMT) program.
The University of Texas Health
Science Center at San Antonio
Awarded S200,000 to help STCC
expand its EMT program to Starr
county and the Mid-Valley, while
the S6.367 awarded by the Texas
department of Health will be used
for emergency care attendant
training, military anti-shock
trousers, suction units and training
equipment. The combination of
both grants will allow STCC to
purchase additional equipment and
hire additional staff needed for the
planned program expansion.
STCC currently offers EMT
classes in Edinburg and Rio Grande
City. Because of the continued
growth of the program and a
shortage of equipment, instructors
have been transporting training
equipment to the various class
locations These grants will help
alleviate this shortage. "We are
looking forward to having state-of-
the-art equipment," saiu Cesar
Garcia, Chair of the EMT program.
Garcia says he hopes the expanded
EMT programs in Starr county and
the Mid-Valley will soon be self-
sufficient
STCC currently has 75 students
enrolled in EMT classes. These
grants will allow the addition of
approximately 15 new students in
Edinburg and Rio Grande City.
Graduates of the EMT program can
look forward to continued job
growth within the EMT field.
According to Garcia, the EMT
program maintains a 100 percent
placement of its graduates with
paramedic certification.
For more information about the
EMT program and the STCC
admissions process, call 1-800-742-
STCC.
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You can turn your pet into a
fussy eater by treating him to every
new pet food on the market.
Experts agree that a dog or cat
should be given only one basic
food that it likes. New taste sensa-
tions can confuse the animal.
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The Star Spangled Banner
was not officially approved as the
national anthem until 1931.
COLLEGE STATION-Peoplc
who want to hunt the vast ranges for
Texas wildlife-whether by gun,
binoculars or camera-might try the
World Wide Web to narrow the
search.
The Natural Resources and
Economic Development homepage
offers an organized approach to
finding out how best to make use of
the state's vast resources, according
to a Texas Agricultural Extension
Service specialist who developed the
page.
"This gives the general public a
way to access information of
fishing, hunting and birding all in
one place, whether they need to
know about hunting leases or when
the next birding and festival is," said
Dr. Jack Thigpen, associate
professor of rural sociology and
extension specialist in community
development. "Also, people who
work for other agencies can use the
data part of the home page, such as
the acres of leased land or deer
habitat, to help design educational
programs and see how the numbers
change over time."
The home page is at
http://acs.tamu.edu/~econdev/
For wild game harvesters, the site
provides the 1995 hunting lease
acreage figures by county in 5-year
increments form 1975-95. Thigpen
hopes to add the data on an annual
basis beginning with 1996 when
those figures become available.
"If a statewide program is designed
to get more people to use land for
wildlife recreation, the data can be
accessed to see changes in acres of
habitat." Thigpen suggested.
"Hunters come to hunt, and they
spend money with private
landowners and rural community
businesses, sc this could help
estimate how much income
generated."
The data shows, for example, that
Edwards County has the largest deer
population with more than 141,000
animals, but Webb county has the
largest economic impact from all
hunting with a estimated S9.25
million dollars annually. Such
information might help landowners
determine how to establish habitat
that would encourage more wildlife
and how to enhance income through
hunting leases.
Wildlife researchers also can use
the data to get an indication of
whether habitat is being lost to
urban encroachment, or if an
educational program to encourage
habitat plantings is working.
The county data also gives the
estimated hunting economic impact,
acres of habitat, estimated deer
populations and number of hunter
days.
Also linked to the site are several
Texas maps such as one of counties
by economic type, ecological
regions of the state, percentage of
land leased for hunting in each
county, the change in hunting lease
acreage by county over the last 10
years, and vegetation types of Texas.
Thigpen said this type of data is
collected but hard to find because
some agencies do not have World
Wide Web access yet
Shopping Tips
■.
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home: a) a toll-free internet direc-
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directory?
Either guess is right.
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and toll-free numbers of over
150,000 businesses.
The new Internet Directory
already receives over 130,000 hits
a day—nearly one for every busi-
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The directory can be found at
http://www.tollfree.att.net.
Businesses can even launch an ad
into cyberspace and hyperlink
that ad to their Web site, bringing
customers to their electronic store
fronts.
Another way to save time is
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information.
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People interested in the natural ^
resources of the western part of the
state should examine the page's link
to TEXNET-Common Range
Plants, designed by specialists at the
Texas A&M Research and Extension
center in San Angelo. This site
allows the user to browse the Web
for plants from the Edwards Plateau
or Trans-Pecos regions. There also
is a link to key seed-producinp
plants for quail, woody plants for
wildlife, a section that helps identify
grasses and information about type::
of plants that contaminate wool and
mohair in Texas.
Thigpen plans to continu
expanding the outdoor recreation
available to encourage better use of
the state's natural resources.
"I would like to expand the
hunting clearing house section to
make it easier for people to find u
place to hunt or go birding," he said.
"This provides information for
hunters and birders, and they spend
money in Texas communities."
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Roberts, Kenneth. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1996, newspaper, December 26, 1996; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth195580/m1/4/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.