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About Us
What is Rehorning Texas?
Rehorning Texas was born out of a desire to empower everyday people who love horned lizards and want to restore & manage the land for their return and continued existence.
In the news, you often read what the zoos and state wildlife agencies are doing with zoo-born or translocated horned lizards, but it's the average person who can do the most for a wild species like horned lizards because more than 93% of Texas is privately owned and without good habitat on the land, new horned lizards won't have anywhere to go and won't survive. Whether they emigrate into your yard or ranch from a neighboring population or are released there by zoo staff, preparing the land to support & sustain them long-term is what will truly allow us to "bring back the Horny Toad". After all, horned lizards behave just fine, know how to take care of themselves, and know how to breed and spread out across the landscape—we just need to remove the exotic vegetation and other barriers that we have put in place that pushed them out of their former range over the last hundred or more years. We also need to put the right types of native vegetation and natural processes back on the land that will help horned lizards once again feel at "home on the range".
This is where Rehorning Texas comes in. Whether you are looking for the right native plants, need a habitat evaluation, habitat management plan, a consultation, a custom native plant seed mix, or a landscape design, Rehorning Texas is here to help.
Dusty Rhoads - co-founder
Dusty's interests intersect at the crossroads of biology, history, natural history, environmental restoration, and bringing those subjects to the masses. He is an alumnus of the TCU Horny Toad Project, having earned his Master of Science in Biology degree studying the conservation of Texas Horned Lizards for his thesis at Texas Christian University (TCU) in December 2019 and is once again, as of August 2024, studying this species but this time through a historical lens as a doctoral student at University of North Texas (UNT) in their Environmental History program. Not new to the study of Texas wildlife, he's published a variety of papers and articles, including a book on the iconic Trans-Pecos Ratsnake of the Big Bend region.
Since 2022, he has worked as an environmental restorationist, starting in the native seed industry, where for two years he was the main driver behind the creation of the Horned Lizard Habitat Mix of native Texas prairie grasses & wildflowers—the first commercially available native plant seed mix for a reptile—and he has continued to work privately as a wildlife conservation biologist in Texas since 2024. Most of his clients are landowners who want to help restore horned lizard populations. Dusty served for three years as a founding board member of the Texas Lobo Coalition, which aims to restore wild wolves to the Texas landscape.
Lindsey Ebert - co-founder
With a biophilial drive to save and restore local habitats from the soil up, Lindsey found her way into native plant horticulture then later as nursery manager at Painted Flower Farm native plant nursery in Denton, Texas. Lindsey has also spent over 20 years as a nature-driven tattoo artist studying and finding inspiration in nature while learning the intricacies of many symbiotic relationships within habitats. Lindsey is currently a tattoo, medical, and permanent makeup artist as well as a designer and consultant for Wildscapers Landscaping. She also cultivates and sells native plants through her business, Bison Trace Habitats.
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