Spared Winter Freeze, Florida’s Mangroves Are Marching North.
On-line Guide to the positive identification of Succulent Plant Families. Ranchers team up with feds to clear cedar, boost water supply. On the hills of the Reagor Ranch, a pretty piece of prickly-pear-laden Hill Country land, a burbling draw of clear water slakes the thirst of cattle and deer.
And, as it turns out, it might supply the drinking taps of Austin, 60 miles to the east . When Marjorie Reagor inherited the 900-acre ranch two years ago — it has been in her family since the 1870s — it was crowded with cedar trees and, save a creek, largely dry.