[texbirds] Re: Good katy prairie birds this morning

  • From: Stephen Gast <segast23@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "antshrike1@xxxxxxx" <antshrike1@xxxxxxx>, "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:25:04 -0800 (PST)

Mary Manor is not open to the public. Unfortunately this is true of most of 
Katy Prairie Conservancy lands for the time being. KPC needs to make productive 
use of the land while it continues to earn income to pay off debt and to 
purchase additional lands towards its long established goal of 30 to 50,000 
acres under protection. Therefore ranching, farming, hunting and oil and gas 
activities continue in one form or another on all KPC properties. For this 
reason, generally, the lands are not publicly accessible due to commitments KPC 
has with those paying KPC for use of the land. This is not the long term goal, 
however for the current time and for these reasons, visitors need to be 
accompanied by KPC volunteers or staff and are asked to sign a liability waiver 
prior to entry. 
Please see the KPC web site for open visitation dates and activities when 
access is possible to various properties. There may be increasing opportunities 
later in 2014. Please stay tuned to KPC's website at  
http://www.katyprairie.org/ as KPC attempts to improve measuring and monitoring 
its biodiversity. 


Steve Gast
Houston, Texas
segast23@xxxxxxxxx



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> From: "antshrike1@xxxxxxx" <antshrike1@xxxxxxx>
>To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2014 5:04 PM
>Subject: [texbirds] Re: Good katy prairie birds this morning
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>This might be a dumb question.  Is the Mary Manor Preserve open to the public? 
> The website is kind of vague.  It's been more than 30 years since I've seen a 
>Henslow's Sparrow.
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>Dan Jones, Wesalco
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