Date: 02/21/2007

Number: 1

Did a milkweed check on the Cunningham Ranch last eveing in the 81.7dF weather. We've had several days this hot in the last few weeks.

Found 1 sprig of A. oenotheroides/ Hierba de zizotes just over 1.5" in height. We searched known locations along a 2 mile stretch of a large irrigation canal and found nothing. The only plant was within 30 yards of the ranch house where some plants receive additional water. This is a bit earlier than I have gone out to look in previous years. Always before I'd not looked till later in March and would always find plants that were 6" high, so wanted to search earlier this year.

Our last frost was the morning of the 16th. The 14th is usually our last frost date.

We had a tiny shower on Tuesday, but are at the epicenter of an EXCEPTIONAL drought. If you put a nickle down on the map of Texas with the center on top of my house (12 mi. N Eagle Pass) and draw a line around the perimeter of the coin, then you'd have
the region of worst drought.

Eagle Pass, TX

Latitude: 28.6 Longitude: -100.3

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