Ecolab
TEXAS ECOLAB SPARKS PASSION FOR LAND STEWARDSHIP, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, AND PRIVATE FUNDING FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT Through the Texas Ecolab program, conservation-minded property owners like Stuart Kensinger can pair up with student researchers from various Texas universities. Property owners provide funding … Continue reading →
Los Madrones Ranch Conservation
On February 28, 2018, the owners of Los Madrones Ranch in western Travis County closed on the sale of a conservation easement that preserves 396 acres of open space, creeks, and sensitive bird habitat. The landowners, Mike Murphy and Julie … Continue reading →
Protecting Private Property/Powerline Routing
PREVAILING PERSISTENCE Patrick Reznik saves a beautiful country estate in a narrow, rapidly-developing peninsula from a 138-kV transmission line. By joining affected landowners together, pooling resources, and filing a collective intervention to protest undesirable routes Patrick was able to have the … Continue reading →
Condemnation
Our Eminent Domain Attorney will advocate exclusively for Landowner Rights. WINNING AT THE SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS’ HEARING It’s the proverbial insult added to injury, but many times over: a utility company has decreed it intends to seize some of your land … Continue reading →
Estate Planning
Texas Estate Planning Lawyer shares Success Stories. COMPREHENSIVE ESTATE PLANNING CREATES PEACE OF MIND Joyce Lucas had an estate plan but it was incomplete and fragmented. To get her estate in order, Joyce engaged our Texas Estate Planning Lawyer, … Continue reading →
Conservation Easement Donations
TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT: PEDERNALES FALLS RIVER CORRIDOR When looming development threatened an idyllic slice of the Texas Hill Country known as the Pedernales Falls River Corridor, a group of like-minded neighbors took action to preserve the rare riverside beauty, … Continue reading →
Sale of Development Rights
CONSERVING THE WILBARGER CREEK WATERSHED Braun & Gresham works to get a bill passed through the Texas legislature to conserve unique Texas land. PARTNERING UP TO PRESERVE TEXAS LAND, PROTECT WATER QUALITY Gay Dahlstrom had a vision for the future … Continue reading →
Litigation
DO THE RIGHT THING: THE BUCK FAMILY DID AND PROVED IT IN A COURT OF LAW Brian and Kate Buck respect the land and play by the rules. Working with Plateau biologists, they carefully manage their property near Austin in … Continue reading →
Property Taxes
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDOWNERS BENEFIT When Richard Garriott, a god among video gamers, the world’s first second-generation space traveler and sixth private astronaut, and lifelong environmental advocate, bought some beautiful, wild Central Texas land, he knew he wanted … Continue reading →
Ecological Laboratory
TEXAS ECOLOGICAL LABORATORY SPARKS PASSION FOR LAND STEWARDSHIP, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, AND PRIVATE FUNDING FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT Through the Texas Ecological Laboratory program, conservation-minded property owners like Stuart Kensinger can pair up with student researchers from various Texas universities. Property owners … Continue reading →