Wonderful World

We have Jason Julian, geography proffesor at Texas State University, as our guest. He has been traveling all over Texas with his new book Stepping Outside: Nature and Society in Texas State Parks. It is an excellent and interesting book, it drew me right in when I opened it up, with his stories of his own family as soon as they hit Texas, taking off to enjoy various parks here. We have a lot of parks, you know! And the book has much more than just stories of camping trips or hikes, and descriptions of parks. There is a lot of history, geology and all kinds of facts, but in a very readable form. It has many photos and is a handsome book as well. It is a great reference book as well as a story book. Anyone who enjoys the outdoors will want it to use as a handbook as well as reading it for fun.

Our guest will be David Bemporad, Chief Programs Officer at Great Springs Project. They have just completed a Progress Report on the trail from SA to Austin which is most interesting on the GSP website. He will walk us through how it is laid out, explaining how some parts are by cities, some by counties, and some by Great Springs Project. But all are laid out in a way that you can see how the trails join, and what great progress has been made ini a short period. There are also many tracts of land being worked on for the next stages of trails.

Guest host Virginia Parker has as this months guest on Wonderful World author, outfitter, and long time participant in the annual River Safari, Holly Orr. She has written a new children's book "The River Cowboys" and tells all the back story of this local race in kids langauage.

Guest host Virginia Parker welcomes John Mark Harris and David Kaiser of the winning 6 man team The Cowboys from the 2026 Texas Water Safari.

Guest host Virginia Parker, director of the San Marcos River Foundation, has a phone call interview with Jay Kleburg Executive Director of the organization Gulf Trust. They discuss the recent Trash Free Gulf cleanup campaign, as well as the effects of water flow from river like the San Marcos River on the bays and estuaries.

Host Dianne Wasenich has Sherwood Bishop from the San Marcos Greenbelt Association in studio to talk about the Wooten Ranch addition to our protected lands around Purgatory Greenspace.

Diane's guest this week on Wonderful World on KZSM 104.1 and KZSM.org is Miranda Wait from the Texas State Meadows Center.

The city is replacing the sidewalk in front of the station, and they just happened to be back in front of the studio when this show was taping. Our appologies.

3/10,Tuesday 11:30 a.m. on KZSM.org True Community Radio in San Marcos TX, our guest will be Robert Mace of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment here in San Marcos. Our monthly radio show Wonderful World can be found on FM 104.1 or online at KZSM.org. Mace has been speaking at several conferences lately and legislative hearings about Texas' difficult water problems, to help people understand the route to groundwater sustainability despite climate changes. I learn from his explanations and you will too. Tune in for my 30 minute talk with him Tuesday morning. Thanks to our Wonderful World producers Rob Roark and Joey Dunnigan .

Wonderful World, the radio show on KZSM.org 104.1 FM, will have a local artist guest for the Tuesday Feb 10 Show, 11:30 a.m. Gwendolyn Hustvedt Studio has a new silk work show hanging in the three story lobby at the Meadow Center for Water and the Environment's building next to Spring Lake, free to the public with free parking on weekends. The silk banners are inspired by the Edwards Aquifer, Spring Lake and the San Marcos River. Please tune in to FM 104.1, or go online at KZSM.org and click on Listen Now. Dianne Wassenich is the host, Gwendolyn the guest, and Rob Roark the producer. Wonderful World is broadcast on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, 11;30 a.m, and the river and aquifer are always the subject of the show.

The Wonderful World radio Show, 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan 12, will cover the data center discussion that will be on the Planning and Zoning agenda at city hall the same day. Listen at KZSM.org live at 104.1. FM or online at KZSM.org True Community Radio, by clicking on Listen Now. Guests will be Zane Liston and Si Frede of the Data Center Action Coalition, a group that has been researching and informing folks about the water and power use and noise issues associated with the data centers already built, or being planned for Caldwell and Hays counties. Wonderful World is the monthly show about river and aquifer issues hosted by Dianne Wassenich. Join us on the second Tuesday of each month.