{"id":1159,"date":"2007-05-03T12:21:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2007-05-03T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T17:21:10","slug":"want-some-west-texas-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/03\/want-some-west-texas-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Want some West Texas wilderness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/sports\/outdoors\/stories\/MYSA050307.01A.big.bend.3573da0.html\">Try Big Bend Ranch State Park, <\/a> where efforts are afoot to get more visitors to stop by.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#8217;s all part of a larger effort to make this sprawling but largely unused West Texas park more accessible to the public without taming its wild character.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s the real dilemma. It&#8217;s really the only opportunity we have in Texas to operate a wilderness park, and there&#8217;s pressure to open it up,&#8221; said Ted Hollingsworth, another Parks and Wildlife official. &#8220;It&#8217;s a balance, but not everyone sees the balance in the same place.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nTwo decades after the state acquired the Big Bend property for $8.8 million from oilman Robert Anderson, its overseers at Texas Parks &#038; Wildlife still seek that elusive balance. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking a few days of hiking there would make the superiority of letting a horse do the walking pretty apparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try Big Bend Ranch State Park, where efforts are afoot to get more visitors to stop by. It&#8217;s all part of a larger effort to make this sprawling but largely unused West Texas park more accessible to the public without&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/03\/want-some-west-texas-wilderness\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}