Texas has lost millions of acres of land to development over the past several decades....
of farms, ranches and forests over the past several decades has severely limited opportunities to expand public parks and green space. In the recent words of Gov. Greg Abbott, that means:"Fewer scouts going on scouting trips to parks, fewer kids getting to see what the outdoors is all about, and more concrete for them to live on.". Abbott recalled formative experiences taking boy scout trips to Daingerfield State Park and Caddo Lake in East Texas.
is under threat and needs a hero. The 1,800 acres in Freestone County, 90 miles southeast of Dallas, offer miles of trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding and a vast lake for catfish and bass fishing. The park has been open to the public since 1976, but the state leases the land from private owner Vistra Corp, an energy company which now intends to sell the land to Todd Interests. This private developer plans to turn the land into a gated community with a private golf course.
Despite the state's recent efforts to buy the land back and preserve it as a park, Vistra and Todd Interests have held firm. After Vistra closed a coal power plant near the park in 2018, it moved toward selling the land, but the state didn't make an offer. Parks and Wildlife officialsthat they didn't have the money to purchase the full acreage, and Vistra was uninterested in selling off a portion of the land.
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