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Kickapoo Cavern State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 3:33.

[wind blows]

- NARRATOR: There are few places left

that have not been largely touched by our culture.

But at Kickapoo Cavern State Park,

nature is almost untouched, the way it used to be.

[gentle music]

- It's a great place to just get away from it all,

you can unplug from all the distractions in the city.

We've got approximately 6,400 acres and lots to do.

We've got birding, hiking, mountain biking.

It's just a great place to get away from it all

and just get back in touch with nature.

- NARRATOR: Much of the beauty of Texas is hidden.

To see it you have to work for it,

sometimes catching only a fleeting glimpse.

Over 230 species of birds have been seen in this park.

- We get a lot of birders from all over the country,

they've read about it.

We've got a lot of diversity here

and they're here a lot of times to fill their life list

whether they're looking for the black-capped vireo

or the golden-cheeked warbler, we've got them both here

so it's a great place for birding.

- NARRATOR: Jessica Klassen is a graduate student

at Texas A&M University

studying the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.

- Here's one of our golden-cheeked warbler nests.

They make their nests out of the strips of ash juniper bark

so the little clump up there of ash juniper

that you see at the canopy of the tree

is our golden-cheeked warbler nest, and directly below it

is you'll see our camera that we're using

to monitor the nest with.

But we like to disturb them as little as possible

so we stay at the nest site

for as short a period as possible.

- NARRATOR: By using an infrared camera

and a remote recording unit, Jessica is able to monitor

the bird nest without disturbing it.

- We've been seeing nestling-type behavior

so we've seen both males and females carrying food,

which we can infer would be to hungry nestlings in the nest.

[birds chirping]

[ominous music]

- NARRATOR: Enter the darkness of the subterranean wonder

of Kickapoo Cavern and witness roughly four million years

of nature's artistic handiwork.

- STEVE: Did y'all see this formation?

Pretty cool.

- NARRATOR: This is what you call

being deep in the heart of Texas.

- You got twin columns.

The one column on your right

is the largest column in the state of Texas.

It's 80-feet high, which is a little over eight stories.

You can see the different colored drapery off of it,

all the jelly fish looking stuff.

I see mother nature at its best.

[orchestral music]

[bats' wings flapping]

- NARRATOR: The intrigue of the park

lies as much above the ground as below.

Stuart Bat Cave teems with Mexican free-tailed bats.

- The bat flights are pretty spectacular.

They are 500,000 bats here at the cave.

It takes approximately an hour-and-a-half

for all the bats to get out of the cave.

- NARRATOR: In our ever-expanding-fast-paced world,

it's wonderful to know

a place like Kickapoo Cavern State Park exists.

- It's a really beautiful place

and we're trying to keep it that way.

We're trying to keep it as natural as possible.

It's a great place to just get away from it all

and enjoy a part of Texas a lot of people have never seen.

For more infomation >> Kickapoo Cavern State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 3:33.

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Texas Rancher to Congress on Death Tax: "Just Get Rid of the Son of a Bitch!" - Duration: 2:07.

I'm Pete Bonds. We're from Saginaw, Texas. We kind of ranch all over. We own

ranches in Marlin, Texas, here outside of Ft. Worth, Canadian, Texas, and in New

Mexico. The experience we've had with the death tax has not been good. We have

been paying life insurance for a long time. We have about 15 million

dollars' worth the life insurance to help get all this stuff into the kids' names

and pay the taxes. You know, that's a waste. It's costing us tens of thousands

of dollars a year to do this and we could be buying cattle, buying land. We've

also here several years ago sat down with several attorneys and spent several

hundred thousand dollars getting limited liability partnerships set up and

went through where we had to have not only appraisals but the appraisals of the

appraisals. We spent about as much money getting this stuff into the kids' names

as my dad paid for this damn ranch. Most ranchers - 90 plus percent of their total

assets is land. That land is not very liquid and upon my death if we had

not done anything, the kids would have had to come up with several

million dollars to pay the death tax. We don't have that amount of money just

sitting around, waiting. Basically what happens upon my death the kids have to

buy the ranch back from the government at a 50% reduction

in the value. We pay taxes on these ranches and get them bought.

Now you're going to tax a very, very tragic event - the death of the family member.

What Congress needs to do is just get rid of the son of a bitch!