LSLS LAVACA RIO: A shining example of natural resource 
management on the Texas coast ... ahead on Passport to 
Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

A group of coastal landowners in Jackson County turned 
their 5,000-acre ranch into what TPW Wildlife biologist 
Doug Jobes calls "the pinnacle of what natural resource 
management should be."

04 -- The practices that are taking place on that ranch, I'd put 
'em up against any ranch in the state.

Lavaca Rio Ranch is a 2015 Lone Star Land Steward 
Regional Award winner for their land management, 
which Brent Friedrichs oversees.

11 -- What's cool about this ranch is you've got these big, deep 
sand hills, and the vegetation is awesome. We've got little 
bluestem, switch grass, gulf coast muhly -- which is all good 
nesting sites for quail.

About 300 acres at Lavaca Rio Ranch is coastal prairie, 
and support rare plant communities, says TPW botanist 
Jason Singhurst.

13 -- They're high-quality prairies. They have a lot of plant 
diversity in them. And they have some plants that are very 
special within the state. Now we're down to about 150 thousand 
acres of coastal prairie, and the fact that this ranch has about 
300 plus acres of intact prairie is unique.

Know a landowner who's doing great work preserving 
their property? Nominate them for a Lone Star Land 
Steward Award. You have until November 30 to submit 
your nomination.

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