Texas Parks and Wildlife should open the Albert and Bessie Kronkosky State Natural Area in the Pipe Creek area near San Antonio in the next two years.
The 3,800-acre property was purchased by the Kronkosky family, who began buying land north of San Antonio in 1946.
To protect the land from future development, the Kronkosky family gave the land to the state in a will, which Texas Parks and Wildlife accepted in 2011. Between 2009 and 2015, state lawmakers did not allow the Parks and Wildlife to use its funds from sporting goods sales tax receipts to buy land for future parks. That changed as financial hurdles cleared over the last few years, the Dallas Morning News reported.
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