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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.
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.
Fitzsimons, a Dimmitt County rancher, found himself in this situation after his father died and other family members disagreed with the author’s desire to disallow oil drilling or fracking on his portion of the San Pedro Ranch.
24 maj 2021 · Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III, owner of SHAPE Ranch, a historic property southwest of the Alamo City, died in his home on May 16, according to the San Antonio Report.
A Rock between Two Rivers is the story of a man coming to terms with the environmental legacy of his family’s ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas, and reckoning with the birthright he’ll leave for the generations who follow. 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 ...
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.”
21 wrz 2023 · Hugh Asa Fitzsimons III (1954-2021) 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.
