PASSPORT LEGACIES: NANCY UMPHRES: Meet a south Texas 
wildlife rehabilitator on Passport to Texas Legacies. 
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Passport to Texas Legacies from Texas Parks and Wildlife

Nancy Umphres is a state- and federally-licensed wildlife 
rehabilitator who has run Zapata Wildlife Rescue since 
1987. She talks about how heavy rains in south Texas 
can displace wildlife.

Floods, we see like bobcat kittens ... cats tend to have their little 
burros in the sides of arroyos. So we get them from flooding. 
There was one bobcat, her name was wren. She came from a 
local ranch right outside of town. And they found her after a 
devastating flood that we had. They found her unconscious, and 
the rushed her - the whole family got together and rushed her 
to our vet - and he took care of her for about a week. And when 
she came to, Danny was holding her and she nailed her - bit her 
- so she said it was time to send her to Nancy. So, I got her., We 
raised her till she was, you know, release age, about nine 
months -eight, nine months old. And the people wanted her 
back on their ranch. So, we went. And the whole family came 
out. Grandma and everybody to watch the release. That's why I 
like this area. People around here tend to live on their ranch. If 
they don't live on their ranch, they spend their weekends on the 
ranch. So they're more in tune to it. You know, and they want it 
to stay like that for their kids and their grandkids. :61

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

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

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