DIETZ: What awaits future Comal County youth?

Frank Dietz writes a monthly column for the Comal County Conservation Alliance.

These thoughts are prompted by an experience almost two decades ago. The prompting has remained with me and inspired discovery and learning curves and grown deeply rooted convictions about conservation and the fragile balances of the open, wild and natural about us in Comal County and the celebrated Texas Hill Country.

Relatively soon after we were learning our ways into our retirement haus and becoming cognizant of the challenges and gifts of the modest piece of pasture that a fence marked as our space, I got a special assignment. Our sons and their spouses were assisting Karen inside and I eagerly offered to have our very young grands join me for an outdoor adventure.

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Frank Dietz writes a monthly column for the Comal County Conservation Alliance.

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