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Terlingua Rick Stevens passed away Monday morning Feb. 6th.  Memorial Services will be held Saturday, March 24, 2012, 12:00am until 9:00am at Pop's Place in Kerrville. 

Geoffrey Cope  http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000482430468  is the main contact.  Rick's Facebook Memorial page is here:  http://www.facebook.com/events/370849339611687/

We miss you already Rick.

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We lament the passing of "Terlingua Rick" Stevens in Kerrville last week.  He had adopted Terlingua Ghostown after being released from the Veterans Hospital.  In his youth he was a war hero, and was wounded in action.  He suffered intense pain for the rest of his life, only semi-alieviated by strong pain killers prescribed by physicians.  Whenever he was out of the hospital he recovered in Terlingua, rotating several times through the years.  He found another refuge in Kerrville amongst a kind and gentle people, and there he was known as "Terlingua Rick".  We knew him here as "Rick".  We remember and miss you Rick, welcome back to Heaven.

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Protesters rode three burros to the Texas Capitol on Wednesday and delivered a petition with 103,000 signatures asking the governor to end the state's practice of shooting the animals in the wild.

The Wild Burro Protection League's petition seeks to stop Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials from killing wild burros in Big Bend Ranch State Park. The state agency considers the 300 wild donkeys that live in the park to be a destructive invader, arguing that the animals destroy the habitat of bighorn sheep, which were once extinct in the West Texas park.

The burros compete with the sheep, which the agency recently reintroduced to the park, said Kevin Good, the special assistant to the director of Parks and Wildlife.

The agency said there is no effort to actively hunt burros but state park officials are authorized to kill them on sight, like any other animal that wasn't naturally part of the park's habitat.

But the league considers the burros a heritage species because the animals played such an important role in human settlement of the area. The group collected the petition signatures using a website, and organizers say the names represent supporters from all over the world.

The burros have "been here from the 1600s living just fine without any intervention," said Gayle-Suzanne Barron, who owns an animal rescue center near Austin. "There's only about 300 or so, and they migrate back and forth between Mexico and Texas, and to kill off all of what they call invasive species is beyond comprehension."

Barron said there were numerous animal rescue groups interested in capturing the animals and removing them from the park.

Good, the Parks and Wildlife official, said that although past attempts to trap the animals failed, the agency would consider proposals to capture the animals from any organization that had the skill and funding to remove them.

"The goal of state park management is to eliminate all non-native plant and animals occurring on park lands as staff time and department resources permit, in order to conserve the indigenous species occurring on these properties," Good said.

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"It's so bad in Texas these days that blondes & Aggies are telling Rick Perry jokes."
- Richard "Kinky" Friedman

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