>> Texas .. home to 86 endangered and threatened species.
OK.
1) Farmers
2) Ranchers
3) Pecan growers
4) Gardeners
5) Sheep herders
6) Nurserymen
7) ...
OK I give up, what are the other eighty?
oil and gas men need to be added to the endangered species list for sure!
Haha You are more accurate than you know. The powers that be will completely cut us off waterwise inorder that the Comal Springs keep flowing. In severe droughts of the past before anybody cared or paid attention and the Springs quit flowing, the little critters survived by going deeper in to the Edwards Aquifer.
But that's not good enough now. They've got to be "protected" and they've got to save the "wild rice" too. But all the businesses in the counties which make up the Edwards Aquifer Authority in which water is their lifes' blood can be damned.