The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 285, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983 Page: 5 of 38
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. Lagow’s work In conservation
ANAHUAC — I( there is an includes stocking Chinese ring-
ideal time to visit Joe Lagow’s necked pheasant and quail, which
ranch headquarters, it would he has been doing since 1957,
have to be on a cool fall afternoon, throughout much of Chambers
With waterfowl massing in the County’s southern portions,
rice fields and marshes below his Lagow fondly remembers the
oak-shaded house, located on old days on the ranch when water-
Farm Road 562 south of Anahuac, fowl numbers were much greater
autumn’s magnetism is once than today's,
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says about Lagow’s place — and for the ducks and geese to fly out I
particularly the birds that group of the ranch’s marshes and into '
there, “You know it’s all over the fields to feed, and the limits 1 5
when the hair on the back of your were liberal even then, with 25-
neck doesn’t bristle after seeing bird limits,
something like this
Lagow, 75, has been managing whole party for only $3,” said
ranch and farm operations, as Lagow. “They’d do the calling
well as hunting, on the 20,000-acre and they’d furnish the decoys.”
Barrow Ranch for 38 years. Lagow estimates that about 70
Although much of the ranch is percent of the area’s marshes — 'JBA
now under the Jurisdiction of the which once extended from the
U.S. Department of the Interior, coast to Highway 90 — have been PLj
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tinue. Public hunting on the ranch “And with farmers going broke,
was initiated in 1928 when owner we won’t be able to hold as many
R. J. Barrow opened the marshy ducks and geese as we have in the
acres to hunters for a mere $2 per past, ’ ’ said Lagow, who estimates
that only 40 percent of the area’s
A native of Dallas and a Rice rice crop is in production. Headd- THESE DUCKS and geese are tne wards of provided for by Lagow until they are fit to fly.
University graduate, Lagow was ed that this is a short-term Joe Lagow’s private refuge. The birds, many
formerly a football coach in Con- calamity, not comparable with crippled on Barrow’s Ranch by hunters, are (Sun staff photo by David Byford)
roe. He settled at his present loca- the destruction of wetlands,
tion in March 1946 with the former “I would like to see them cut
Elizabeth Barrow and raised four back to a five-bird bag limit,” he
children: Donnie, Ralph, Jean added. “With a little cooperation
and Janet. He also served 24 between hunters and conserva-
years as a Chambers County com- tionists, we’ll have duck hunting
here from now on.” '
Lagow is a widely recognized Another problem faced by area
conservationist with a reputation waterfowlers is shortstopping,
on par with few in Southeast which occurs when midwestem
refuges provide water and grain
“The wildlife business is not to birds that would normally
just a sideline, ” said Lagow. “It’s migrate south,
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The birds have been fed so
“I have 25 guides (many of much they risk freezing and star-
whom are booked throughout the vation. Birds sometimes get their
shooting season by clients from feet frozen in the ice and they
across the nation), and I believe starve in this condition,” said
in adhering to the law. If my Lagow. “The young birds have
guides don’t, they don’t stay with never known to move south,
us too long.” They’ve broken their traditional
Of particular interest to area migration patterns,
wildfowl devotees is Lagow’s Old-time hunters of the ranch
private “game refuge,” which remember one area, formerly
lies next to his house. Deer, plus a known as Goose Roost Slough,
large number of waterfowl crippl- which once sheltered as many as
ed by hunters and saved by 75,000 greater Canada geese. To-
Lagow and his guides, occupy two day, virtually the only greater
large ponds on the refuge. The Canadas seen are those raised
residents’ numbers are reinforc- and released by Lagow, although
ed every evening by wildAfr
“I enjoy it,” said LafNi
dumps about 50 pounds of feed ' “We don’t get the mallards here
every day in summer and about either that we did at one time, ’ ’ he
75 pounds in the winter, after added. “This shortstopping is just
native vegetation has clied. “I see against nature’splan.”
them every day, but I still enjoy Another factor which will affect
watching it. Southeast Texas duck hunters is
“It takes about an hour to do all the passage of last year’s Peyeto
this feeding, ”-he added.-”Mhour Bill, which puts a 14 percent tax
in the morning and an hour at on landowners taking pay for hun-
ting and fishing.
“A lot of landowners are not go-
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thin stuff, though,” said’ Lagow. tag to have hunting on their land
“I’d like to try and do a little hun- because of that,” said Lagow.
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Feeding and raising the birds it costs money to keep the roads
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’coons this year alone in a live- timistic about his operation,
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come to get tay birds, mostly in said. “When I pass on, my son
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 285, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1152783/m1/5/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.