Pierce Ranch: Wildlife and Water
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The Pierce Ranch is great. They’re motivated and they’re, they’re looking to do things from a wildlife and habitat standpoint.
Pierce Ranch is the Lone Star Land Steward Award Winner for the gulf prairies and marshes eco-region. David Forrester, a Parks and Wildlife Biologist, says managing for wildlife and habitat is only part of the equation.
Of course they’re looking at these things from an economic standpoint, too. But they always keep in mind, trying to preserve and enhance what they have.
Through careful planning, and work with Parks and Wildlife, Laurence Armour, III—the great-great grandson of the Ranch’s founder cattleman Shanghai Pierce—maintains the health of the habitat, wildlife and even his wallet.
This is a wetland that we flooded up because it was easy to put water in, and it was a nice little duck hole. It’s not hunted—this is sort of a resting pond for ducks. And then we started seeding with crawfish; and this year is our most productive crawfish pond. And we’re pulling up between two and three hundred pounds a day of crawfish out of this one pond here.
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That’s out show…with support from the Wildlife restoration Program… providing funding for the Private Lands and Habitat Enhancement Program… for Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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April 8th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
My grandmother, Anna Marie Pecha, was born on the Pierce Ranch in 1909.
Her father was a blacksmith for Shanghi Pierce. His name was Josef Pecha.
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Shows that with a little thought and dedication to the environment people are rewarded. Nice idea to flood the land and have a place for ducks to hang out. Then to profit with the crawfish I think that is cool.