84% of Texas land base is farm, ranch or timber and Texas legislators and regulators should think of land as infrastructure like:
- Colorado that dedicates lottery revenue to private land conservation
- Ohio that allows municipal water utilities to get lower interest rate on loans for plant upgrades in exchange for funding land protection
- Better funding of the Texas Farm & Ranch Lands Conservation Program
Trib Talk |Blair Calvert Fitzsimmons| Land is the state’s most critical infrastructure