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  • A new approach to working with endangered species

    07/28/2004 8:19:36 PM PDT · by hedgetrimmer · 3 replies · 191+ views
    Wilson County News Online ^ | Jul 27 , 2004 12:08 PM
    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...