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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III is a third-generation rancher from Dimmit County, Texas, and a director of the Wintergarden Groundwater Conservation District, which focuses on preserving and protecting groundwater across three counties. He holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and he is the ...
6 lis 2018 · Hugh Asa “Sunny” Fitzsimons III is a beekeeper and bison herder, a third-generation South Texas rancher both blessed and burdened by his family’s legacy of trying to tame the rich, harsh Brush Country, a landscape that inevitably tames those who choose to call it home.
16 paź 2018 · Atop a plundered aquifer and broken land, Hugh Fitzsimons traces the fracturing of the human spirit and asks us that most vital question: Will we learn to say ‘enough’ before it is too late? This is fracking understood in its full dimensions—a soul-shattering experience.”
19 maj 2021 · Hugh “Sunny” Asa Fitzsimons III, a soft-spoken South Texas rancher whose love of the land and conservation, prehistory and history, and his own family’s unresolved tensions led to a searing 2018 family memoir, died at home May 16 after a battle with esophageal cancer.
17 lis 2018 · “A Rock Between Two Rivers” by Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III. Trinity University Press. A day and a half’s walk from the Rio Grande, not far from what was once the agricultural oasis of Carrizo...
What began for Hugh Fitzsimons as a mission to expose local ecological hazards from hydraulic fracking has turned into a lifelong ache to understand the more complicated story of how his family...
In A Rock between Two Rivers, Fitzsimons struggles with the inheritance he wants for his own children, one that considers the future consequences of our actions toward the land we are born to and...
