A new approach to working with endangered species At first glance, Bob Long may seem to be an unlikely environmental activist. He is a minister, a rancher and a staunch defender of property rights. He is also leading the way in the fight to preserve the endangered Houston Toad, populations of which have a tenuous foothold in Bastrop County and on Long’s family ranch there. “I wanted to get off dead center,” Long says. “We had a stakeholder group that was bogged down in paperwork, and I saw an opportunity to get something going on my ranch that could be...