TPW TV: Lone Star Land Stewards
Monday, January 10th, 2011This is Passport to Texas
Parks and Wildlife presents awards to landowners for excellence in habitat management and wildlife conservation on their lands. You’ll meet several winners this month on the Texas Parks and Wildlife PBS TV series; producer, Alan Fisher.
In January we’ll visit three Lone Star land Steward award winners from the Pineywoods to the Panhandle. One is actually a coalition of landowners in the Edwards Plateau who use the benefits of prescribed fire to restore their habitat.
The fire’s been beneficial in that its removed almost all of the cedar; it’s improved the forb production and had a big increase in grass production.
We also visit the Running R Ranch in the western Panhandle, as well as Ewing Mound in the Pineywoods, where they’re managing a pine forest as well as managing for wildlife.
One of the tools that we have is a mulcher. Wildlife management can take this machine out into the woods, do brush control with it, create habitat, food plot edge. Very beneficial to the white tailed deer, as well as your neotropical songbirds and your other wildlife as well.
I think sometimes people get the impression that conservation is a luxury. These land stewards can show us that managing for wildlife and making a living off the land are very compatible things.
Find a list of stations that broadcast the series on the Texas parks and Wildlife website.
That’s our show for today… For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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