Stayton Bonner

My friend Jerod Foster and I recently completed a story on the nearly endangered lesser prairie chicken. The piece will be featured in the October issue of Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. I just finished reading J. Evetts Haley's excellent biography of Charles Goodnight. The famed cattleman, Larry McMurtry's model for Woodrow Call in Lonesome Dove, preserved a herd of buffalo whose descendants still roam the Caprock Canyons State Park. Our story extends Goodnight's tale to explore how land utilization and economics can merge with wildlife management.  In this shot, I'm releasing a tagged bird into the wild.