One Family’s Venture in Private Land Conservation: Generation to Generation

By October 1, 2017October 27th, 2020Featured

Bob Ayres, Owner and CEO of Shield Ranch is featured in the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation Newsroom Blog. “For the past thirty years, I have managed my family’s ranchlands on the eastern and western edges of the Texas Hill Country and in the Davis Mountains of the Trans-Pecos. My maternal grandparents Fred and Vera Shield acquired this land between 1938 and 1950. Like landowning families across the state, we have faced inevitable challenges from within and from without. Strategic planning, opportunities in emerging markets for ecosystem services, and a diverse array of partnerships and collaborations have enabled us to continue to own and steward our land together.”

Read all three parts in this series by following this link.