The beautiful Hill Country Texas has been greatly transformed since the early European settlers arrived. Much can and has been written about the original peoples, the impacts of settlement and the changes from an environment, lived on solely by Indians, to what exists today. This, in a few short centuries, dramatically transformed the Eco-System -- flora, fauna, water, underground aquifers -- from what was to what we often see in the Hill Country today. When I and my, now deceased wife Sall ...