This chapter is dedicated to Ira T. Burns (1891-1976), a homesteader on the Rio Grande Plain. As a bee-keeper, he had a different perspective on woody vegetation than ranchers of the region. I was fortunate to have been his grandson and student.
Tamaulipan Biotic Province
A Symposium
Resources, Management, Conservation
28-30 October 1982
Corpus Christi, TX
Co-Sponsored by
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Welder Wildlife Foundation
Texas A & I University
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
National Park Service
Texas Good Neighbor Commission
Co-ordinators
David H. Riskind
TPWD
4200 Smith School Rd.
Austin, TX 78744
Gene W. Blacklock
Welder Wildlife Foundation
Drawer 1400
Sinton, TX 78387
512-364-2643