Land as Infrastructure. 3 Points from the Texas Agricultural Land Trust

84% of Texas land base is farm, ranch or timber and Texas legislators and regulators should think of land as infrastructure like:

• Colorado that dedicates lottery revenue to private land conservation
• Ohio that allows municipal water utilities  to get lower interest rate on loans for plant upgrades in exchange for funding land protection
• Better funding of the  Texas Farm & Ranch Lands Conservation Program

Trib Talk |Blair Calvert Fitzsimmons|  Land is the state’s most critical infrastructure