Researchers in the Department of Biology at Texas State University have teamed with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to identify the most effective ways to recruit private landowners to save the critically endangered Houston toad, and by extension, the integrity of East Texas prairie ecosystems.
Led by Assistant Professor Chris Serenari, principal investigator of the Human Dimensions Lab, Texas State researchers are interviewing landowners and decision makers to understand under what conditions landowners would enroll in programmatic Safe Harbor agreements in Colorado and Austin Counties.
The research is funded through a 2018-2019 TPWD Wildlife Diversity Program Conservation License Plate Grant, a program that supports conservation of 1,300 species of greatest conservation need in Texas.
