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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Michael Cooper / The Bulletin
March 23, 2009
WALLER, Texas — Over the years the Katy Prairie has survived the cattle ranchers who tamed its fields, the rice farmers who cleared its wildflowers and tall grasses, and even the encroachment of Houston, some 30 miles to the east, whose spiraling outward growth turned most of the....