An environmental film festival spotlights a Central Texas land trust’s effort to bring back endangered species. Conservation Toads
on its 600-acre ranch and wildlife refuge in Paige, about an hour’s drive east of Austin.
“We know the potential is there,” said Melanie Pavlas, executive director of the Pines and Prairies Land Trust. “We’re working really hard to restore habitat.”United States Department of the Interior This toad is one of many species that depend on small, periodic fires to clear the forest or savannah understory and allow native grasses to grow in their wake. But in much of the United States, even small fires have been suppressed for centuries, allowing brush to build up and fuel less frequent but more destructive wildfires that can’t be contained. The Houston toad faces other threats too.
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