Often, in talks to various groups on the subject of our native habitat, I say there are three forces over which we have very little control but which are decreasing the amount of native habitat in the Hill Country. The three are: (1) farm and ranch land sold to development (housing projects, shopping centers, schools, parking lots, roads, etc.); (2) land fragmentation of larger ranches being broken up into many small parcels thus giving myself and many others a place to live in the country; ...