LEGACIES: TED EUBANKS: Meet a man whose determined to 
make ensure urban dwellers know nature ... on Passport 
to Texas Legacies
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Passport to Texas Legacies from Texas Parks and Wildlife 

Ted Eubanks -- founder Fermata, Inc -- an Austin business 
that develops historical and nature tourism plans and 
trips -- negotiates with private landowners for access to 
their property to ensure the state's growing urban 
population has a chance for a relationship with nature 
and the outdoors.

In some cases I think we've overlooked the need of this urban 
population to have access to recreational opportunities, and 
hunting and fishing opportunities, and those sorts of things. 
The issue that concerns me the greatest in our country at this 
time is this issue of this group that I call the disenfranchised 
that will never find their way to nature, that will never have a 
relationship with the land. And that's a growing group - and 
that's where we should be spending out time. Yes, let's protect 
the rights of private property owners, but then let's also start 
talking about, what do we do with this growing population? This 
mass that we have in our cities that have no relationship to the 
outdoors at all. I'm far more concerned about that group than a 
handful of landowners that, for the most part, are reasonable, 
rational people that - by and large - their rights can be 
protected within the existing framework. :46

That's our show ... produced in cooperation with the 
Conservation History Association of Texas. Visit them on 
the web at texaslegacy.org. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 











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