The ranch’s acquisition by the state preserves an environmentally sensitive plot of land upstream of Guadalupe River State Park and Honey Creek State Natural Area off State Highway 46, northwest of Bulverde.
Superintendent of Guadalupe State Park and Honey Creek Natural Area, Brandon Baca, points to an area of the Honey Creek Ranch which has been deeded to Texas Parks and Wildlife.Comal County’s Honey Creek Ranch, once slated for development of as many as 2,400 homes and three schools, has been purchased by the state of Texas, officials announced Thursday.Success! You're on the list.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Landowners Ronnie and Terry Urbanczyk sold the 515-acre ranch for $25 million to the state’s parks department in a move facilitated through a partnership with the state’s parks department, The Nature Conservancy in Texas, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. Funds for the purchase were made available from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, state appropriations for land acquisitions and private donations, according to a press release announcing the move.
“We feel like this is a huge conservation win and were very excited to be celebrating the acquisition of the ranch,” Suzanne Scott, state director for The Nature Conservancy in Texas, told the San Antonio Report. “[Honey Creek] is a sensitive and important watershed that the Nature Conservancy has been protecting since back in the 1980s when we made the initial acquisition” of the almost 2,300-acre Honey Creek State Natural Area.
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