Location
Peach Creek Wildlife Management Co-op
Years: 1973 | Role: Institution | County: Gonzales
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Description
In 1973, local landowners organized the Peach Creek Wildlife Management Cooperative, the first Co-op in the state. Created in consultation with Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists including Dennis Brown and Donnie Harmel, the Co-op aimed to improve wildlife management on private lands, particularly for the benefit of white-tailed deer. The Co-op movement has since spread across Texas, manifested in over 150 associations in the state, collectively managing 1.9 million acres.
Location Notes
Peach Creek Wildlife Management Co-op appears to no longer exist or at least have any precise address. The local TPW biologist, Robert Conrad, believes it was renamed as the Northeast Gonzales County WMA, and then subsumed within the Gonzales County WMA. The closest intersection to a Peach Creek near Gonzales, Texas is found at the crossing of CR 302 and CR 340, so perhaps that could be a marker site to commemorate the Co-op.