Jackson, R. E. (Robert E.)
Known as the Father of the Big Thicket, conservationist Richard E. Jackson worked as a conductor for the Santa Fe Railroad before he leased land in the Silsbee region in order to protect it from further development.
In 1927, he founded the East Texas Big Thicket Association in an effort to preserve the heavily wooded region of Southeast Texas as a national forest, which led to its creation as a preserve in 1974.
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