When completed, the 3,814-acre natural area located just northwest of San Antonio will be available for visitors to enjoy camping and backpacking.
Volunteers Jerry Morrissey and Cleve Powell identify plants along the stream bed of Bessie’s creek, an intermittent stream at the Albert and Bessie Kronkosky State Natural Area, set to open to the public in 2026, as part of a survey.As it stands today, the entrance of the Albert and Bessie Kronkosky State Natural Area is easy to miss.
“That designation affects the planning,” he said. “So once we determined that this was going to be a state natural area, then we said, ‘All right, what would be appropriate recreational uses here that wouldn’t be a detriment?'” The property’s rolling hills also hold the rare sycamore-leaf snowbell, big-toothed maple and Boerne bean, Rice added. Natural overlooks throughout the property will allow visitors to gaze over miles of untouched Texas Hill Country.Protecting the property was what Albert and Bessie Kronkosky had in mind when they willed the property, which straddles Bandera and Kendall counties, to the state of Texas. Known for, Albert Kronkosky died in 1995 and his wife, Bessie, in 2010.
One reason has been inconsistent funding for the state’s parks department, which made planning difficult. Prior to 2019, a loophole in state law allowed legislators to use funds from the sporting goods sales tax meant for the state’s parks to go to other uses, meaning the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department operated on an unpredictable budget. That loophole was closed in 2019, making funding for the department more predictable.
For now, Rice and Howell Pugh, the new natural area’s resource specialist, are working to perform biological surveys and water quality testing of the natural area to establish a baseline prior to humans using the site. With the help of a team of volunteers, Rice and Pugh go out onto the property every few days to collect data, which Pugh then sorts through and organizes.
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