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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!

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

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Choke Canyon State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 2:43.

[birds call]

- RUDY MESA: The sunrise here at Choke Canyon is just

extravagant, just the different colors that come through,

the birds in the background.

It's just all worth getting up early in the morning just to

hear and view that.

[music]

[motor boat revs]

[birds call]

[truck passes by]

- NARRATOR: Halfway between San Antonio and Corpus Christi,

Choke Canyon State Park may be quiet, but it's never dull.

- If you're looking for an outdoor experience that will

keep you busy the whole time you're visiting here

at the park, Choke Canyon is the place to go.

You can view the birds.

You can catch the fish.

- ANGLER: Here we go!

- RUDY: You can relax and enjoy nature at its best.

- NARRATOR: Located on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail,

Choke Canyon is a Grand Central Station for migrating birds.

- See where those egrets are over there, snowy egrets

and great egrets?

- NARRATOR: A variety of other critters make their

home here, too.

- See the rabbit, the cute little rabbit?

- NARRATOR: And if you think it's lively on land,

wait until you try the water.

[energetic music]

- ANGLER: Hey, got another one!

- NARRATOR: The 26,000-acre Choke Canyon reservoir is

one of the best kept fishing secrets in Texas.

- ANGLER: There he is, folks, Choke Canyon.

Look at the gut on that fish!

- NARRATOR: It's also a place to reconnect with what's

important in life.

- All of our grandkids have been down here.

Every one of them has been down here and camped with us,

saw the gators with us, because I think camping and fishing

is family.

- Dad look!

Dad!

[music]

- NARRATOR: Sometimes a little nature can go a long way.

[music and birds calling]

[water lapping on shore]

For more infomation >> Choke Canyon State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 2:43.

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Lake Bob Sandlin State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 3:15.

[frogs, crickets, birds chirp]

[music]

- NARRATION: In Northeast Texas, there's a park that's

still a secret.

Hidden right on the water is Lake Bob Sandlin State Park.

- PARK INTERPRETER: Y'all look right here you can see the

red eared slider out there on that stump.

- PAUL HARRIS: One of the things that we promote about our park

is a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle.

We're a two hour drive from the Dallas metroplex, but once you

arrive you'll feel like you are a million miles away.

- CAMPER: We feel like we're out in the middle of nowhere we can

have room for the tents and the camper and just walk right down.

[family laughing]

- ANDY: Beautiful day for a walk.

[Heron calls]

- NARRATION: In the morning the park offers guided hikes

that take folks along the lakes' edge,

and into the forest.

- ANDY: It's a short walk, it'll give us an example of most

of the things you will see in East Texas in the Piney woods.

[Red-Winged Blackbird sings]

This is a Louisiana Milk snake.

- HIKER: That's just beautiful!

- ANDY: This is the mimic snake of the coral snake,

and the saying goes red on black friend of Jack, red on yellow

kill a fellow, it's a pretty little snake, real common snake

for this area.

We've got four and a half miles through here, we just saw a

small part of it on our walk.

- PAUL: We have a stock pond inside the park.

- GIRL: It's heavy.

- RUSSELL: No see, you're getting a bite, look at it!

- PAUL: It's about a two acre pond, very shaded!

- RUSSELL: You got em, reel it, reel it, there you go.

I think you got em!

What's good thing about the pond here is it's

got a lot of small fish in it.

- GIRL: I've got one fish!

- RUSSELL: And uh, young children are guaranteed success

which helps because they're patience is not as long.

- DAD: Push him off!

Let him go, they're here goes!

Now!

- RUSSELL: If parent's take the time and keep baiting the hooks,

they're guaranteed to catch fish before they're through!

- GIRL: There he goes!

- RUSSELL: Good job!

[music]

- NARRATION: If you're looking for bigger fish,

the best bet is out on the water.

- KELLY BLACK: Just about anywhere you fish could be good.

There's almost not a bad looking spot on the lake,

a place that it doesn't look like it will hold a bass or two.

- MICHAEL: Ah, fish on!

Yippee!

- KELLY: Boy they sure do shine!

- MICHAEL: Hey, Kelly got one!

Did it come off or still on there?

- KELLY: Still on there.

- MICHAEL: Oh, that's a decent one there, oh it came off Kelly.

- KELLY: No that's called quick release!

- MICHAEL: Ha, ha!

- NARRATION: So whether it's the fishing, hiking, or lounging,

check out Lake Bob Sandlin State Park...

just keep it a secret.

- KELLY: It's peaceful, it's nice,

it's just a great place to be!

[music]

For more infomation >> Lake Bob Sandlin State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 3:15.

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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.