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Hook’Em Horns

have worked in the oil fields of Texas since 1975, and in the old days I would see numerous horned lizards when working near Midland, Llano, and all the way east to Abilene [“Our Lovable Lizards,” January]. Now it is very rare that I see them darting across an oil field lease road. Also missing are the harvester ants and their large circular mounds that used to

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