Article: Firms' Plans to Sell Land Bordering Preserve Alarm Texas Conservationists.

By Richard Stewart, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 18--KOUNTZE, Texas--Maxine Johnston is fighting for the Big Thicket again.

That's nothing new for the 73-year-old retired Lamar University librarian. She's been in love with this almost mystical forest that sprawls across Southeast Texas ever since her high school English teacher assigned her to write a paper about it in 1945.

She joined a small but faithful group of conservationists who flooded politicians with facts, dragged them out into the deep woods, cajoled, begged and preached to them until the Big Thicket National Preserve was created in 1974 and ...

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