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Caesar Kleberg
By John Russell Thomasson |
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Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
South Texas Natives is coordinated by the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
The Institutes mission is to provide science-based knowledge of wildlife and habitat in South Texas and Northeastern Mexico. The results of this research are far-reaching in Texas and in similar national and international regions. In addition, the faculty and students of the Institute have developed a lasting reputation and high level of trust with private landowners on whose land they conduct research. The Institute works with wildlife managers, private landowners, hunters, conservationists and policy makers alike to provide scientific research that is used to manage game and non-game species.
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Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Photograph by Department of Public Affairs |
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The Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute is a research division of Texas A&M University-Kingsville and the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences. It was founded in 1981 with a grant from the Caesar Kleberg Foundation for Wildlife Conservation of San Antonio, and named after Caesar Kleberg (1873-1946). Caesar was one of the great wildlife conservationists of his day, and was revered and respected by the King Ranch family of which he was a member. He understood that the biological and ecological diversity of South Texas was an irreplaceable cultural and economic resource to the people of Texas and Northern Mexico, and that it would be sustained only through the development of sound management techniques based on scientific research. The Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute is the realization of this vision. In fact, today the Institute has become one of the most visible and well-respected wildlife research programs in Texas and the nation.
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South Texas landscape
Photograph by Forrest Smith |
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