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Trick or Treat - Nature Conservancy Closes on Bracken Bat Cave!
Friends of the Bracken Bat Cave can breathe a little easier today, now that a threatened encroachment by a high-density housing development is officially over.
That's because the real estate deal closed Friday, transferring the land from Galo Properties to the Nature Conservancy.
Defendants of the Bracken Cave have been working on this deal for more than a year. The effort was spearheaded by San Antonio City Councilman Ron Nirenberg, who took up the challenge to visit the cave right after he was elected in 2013.
That's because the real estate deal closed Friday, transferring the land from Galo Properties to the Nature Conservancy.
Defendants of the Bracken Cave have been working on this deal for more than a year. The effort was spearheaded by San Antonio City Councilman Ron Nirenberg, who took up the challenge to visit the cave right after he was elected in 2013.
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Oct. 16, Nirenberg announced that the City of San Antonio, along with Bexar and Comal Counties, the U.S. Army, the Edwards Aquifer Authority, and numerous private donors had agreed to back the Nature Conservancy’s purchase of the property so that the housing development could be stopped.
More at link:http://tpr.org/post/nature-conservancy-closes-property-near-bracken-bat-cave
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The deal was signed on Friday afternoon. Pics from Texas Tribune and San Antonio Express News
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