The Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board named Don Casey of Blanco County the 2019 Texas Conservation Rancher of the Year.
“We raise cattle, but you can’t raise cattle without grass. So, really, I am a grass manager,” Casey explained in the board’s announcement.
Casey added that his goal is to use the cattle to restore the land to what it had been ecologically before European and American settlers had pushed West.
His long-term conservation goal is to restore the land back to pre-settlement ecological conditions, providing quality wildlife habitat.
“I wish I could go back and see what the land was like when my ancestors first arrived in the early 1840s.”
