Do we just accept the loss of TPWD land because the Fed said so? Land we work hard to protect.
I am a naturalist in Texas. I receive the listserves from A&M and have the certification and volunteer hours for an organization whose sole purpose is to protect the natural habitat of Texas WITHOUT sacrificing or downplaying the need for development. People need places to live, we don’t disparage that. We protect what we can. But then I see things like 700+ acres of “federal” TPWD land being turned over to private companies for commercial use and wonder what am I even doing? Why am I committing so many man hours to conservation when nothing we do really matters? All that time protecting plants, helping ranchers, volunteering for the state… it doesn’t matter at all when someone worth more than the Texas economy wants to launch rockets into space… we just let the federal government give our land away for commercial use? In our state? Really? It shouldn’t be that easy. Texans should get a say.