Protect, Conserve, Pass Down:
A Strategy for Saving Family Lands

Monday, November 3th

Floresville Event Center

600 Hwy 97 W Floresville, TX 78114

Program

9:00 – 9:10 am
Welcome
Bryan Davis, County Extension Agent, Wilson County, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

Sizing up the Problem:
Fragmentation and the Loss of Agricultural Lands

9:10 – 9:40 am
Land Fragmentation in Wilson County (updated data)
Roel Lopez, Director & Professor, Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources

Tools to Combat Landowner Problems and Fragmentation

9:40– 10:25 am
Mitigating the Impacts of Oil & Gas Production
Judon Fambrough, Senior Lecturer, Texas A&M University Real Estate Center

10:25 – 11:00 am
Mitigating the Impacts of Feral Hogs
Ken Cearley, Stewardship Manager for West Texas, Texas Agricultural Land Trust

11:00 – 11:10
Coffee Break

11:10-11:20
Introduction to the Texas Agricultural Land Trust
Blair Fitzsimons, CEO, Texas Agricultural Land Trust

11:20 – 12:00 pm
Introduction to Conservation Easements
Allison Elder, General Counsel, Texas Agricultural Land Trust

12:00-12:30
Break for Lunch Service

12:30-1:15 pm
Landowner Panel
Don Kirchoff – Kirchoff Family Farm, Ruthie Russell – Sycamore Canyon Ranch

1:15 – 1:30 pm

Q&A

1:30 pm
Updates from the National Park Service
Speaker TBA

1:35
Optional Tour to Rancho de las Cabras

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(830) 393-7357 or wilson-tx@tamu.edu

$15 at the door.