Texas ranks 35th among the states in state park acreage per capita. Why so low? Heavy private ownership of land, individualism, spotty leadership are among...
Some 94% of Texas’ 172 million acres is privately owned. Because Texas was an independent nation before joining the Union, it retained control of its land. The federal government never controlled large swaths, as in other Western states.
Bristol, a former businessman who served on the National Parks Foundation board, said state politicians mirror their constituents. Then-Gov. John Connally pushed lawmakers and voters to approve $75 million in state bonds in 1967. The effort allowed the department to draw matching funds approved in the federal Land and Water Conservation Act of 1964. The two funding streams ignited significant expansion.proposed budget
The statistical game-changer came in 1988, when the Parks and Wildlife Commission voted to purchase a 212,000-acre, privately owned ranch in far West Texas. It helped launch Big Bend Ranch State Park, which is near the fabled Big Bend National Park.
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