Richard LeTourneau

Region: Piney Woods

Topics: Forestry, Water, Dams, Caddo Lake, Sabine River
 

Mr. Le Tourneau is a machinist and metal fabricator in Longview, but has also been active in hunting, fishing, camping, and protecting forestlands and free-flowing streams in east Texas. He has worked particularly hard on opposition to the Little Cypress Reservoir and the Waters Bluff / Belzora Landing Reservoirs, and in seeking more environmentally sensitive and financially prudent alternatives to reservoir construction through participation in the Senate Bill 1 Northeast Texas Regional Water Planning Group, by serving on the board of the Texas Conservation Alliance, (formerly, the Texas Comittee for Natural Resources and via founding and leading a new non-profit group, Friends of the Sabine.

Interviewed

October 20, 2000
Longview, Texas
Reels 2117 and 2118