Our Texas, Our Future

What started as a six-acre donation by Isabella Neff is now a 1.5 million-acre, statewide system of Texas State Parks, open to the public. These nearly 90 parks allow Texans to connect with nature and each other, while helping preserve Texas’s natural beauty. With narration and music by Shane Smith & the Saints, this film encourages all Texans to go & enjoy the diverse, stunning parks of the great Lone Star State.

Bats play a large, unseen role in Texas’s agricultural economy & food systems, both as pollinators and as free, natural pest control. Batsies follows passionate Texas State University wildlife biologists as they work against the clock to find a way to save the bats, while breaking barriers of their own.

Once overfished to dangerous levels, wild redfish are once again thriving on the Gulf Coast, thanks to a healthy balance of sustainable aquaculture and wild caught practices—and a group of passionate Houston anglers working to keep it that way.

Black bears were driven out of Texas in the early 1900s, but have been making an unprecedented, natural return to their historic habitat since the 1990s. Second Chance profiles the incredible black bear observation & research being done by the Borderlands Research Institute, conservationists, and West Texas ranchers.

Ocelots, the United States’ most endangered cat, are thriving on a working cattle ranch in the brush country of deep South Texas. With fewer than 100 remaining, the ocelot’s future depends on Texan ranchers actively conserving the land needed for both ocelot habitation and cattle ranching. Ranching With Ocelots follows the traditional vaqueros and researchers creating a sustainable agricultural system to leave both a ranching and wildlife legacy.