Deborah Clark
Deborah Clark is a partner with her husband Emry Birdwell at the Birdwell and Clark Ranch near Henrietta, Texas. Deborah and Emry have worked for the past 20 years to improve rangeland conditions through holistic and regenerative management practices. Recently, a sheep enterprise was added to the stocker operation. Deborah now focuses on “saving the ranch”. External challenges include pipelines, highway development, transmission lines, and a proposed reservoir that would decimate the current grazing management and inundate 2,000 acres of prime riparian habitat and native tall grass prairie. Deborah and Emry put the ranch into a conservation easement and Deborah leads efforts on a local, regional, and statewide basis to defeat the proposed reservoir.