By A couple of conservation groups are the new owners of large tracts of Texas coastal prairie that will serve as habitat for whooping cranes.
The Conservation Fund bought the 22-hundred-acre Costa Grande Ranch, and the International Crane Foundation bought an 11-hundred-acre coastal property. Both tracts are in rural Calhoun County.
A hundred years ago, only about two dozen of the cranes survived. Now nearly 600 migrate every year between Canada and the middle of the Texas Gulf Coast.
