Jim Stanley, Texas Master Naturalist and author, has published his third book, Hill Country Ecology: Essays on Plants, Animals, Water and Land Management. For the last 7 years Stanley has written the Hill Country Naturalist column for the Kerrville Daily Times, and for the last 10 months. For this book, he has selected a little over 200 of the 350 or so columns, collected them into 8 major sections and 25 subsections by topic, and edited a few as necessary.