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A Lufkin woman has been named the 2014 recipient of the Leopold Conservation Award, the state's highest honor for private land conservation, for her family's ecological transformation of a sizable piece of East Texas land in Nacogdoches County.

This year's award recognizes Virginia H. Winston, owner of the 3,418-acre Winston 8 Ranch, which is located five miles south of Nacogdoches. The ranch is a verdant medley of pine forest, longleaf pine, open range and wetlands providing food and shelter for a resurging population of whitetail deer, quail and Eastern turkeys. But that's not the way it was in the 1970s, when Mrs. Winston and her late husband John acquired the property.

Given in honor of renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold, the prestigious award is conferred each year by Sand County Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to private land conservation, in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) as part of its Lone Star Land Steward Awards program. In Texas, the Leopold Conservation Award Program is sponsored by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation, DuPont Pioneer, Farm Credit and The Mosaic Company.

"Thankfully for Texas, more and more landowners are quietly yet diligently working to restore their property to benefit a host of habitats and fish and wildlife species," said TPWD Executive Director Carter Smith. "The Winston family has absolutely led by example. Through a substantial commitment of time and effort, they have converted a close-cut tract of land into one of the state's finest examples of exemplary land stewardship. We could not be more proud to recognize them for their important work."

"The nation benefits when private landowners seize opportunities to recover damaged land, as the Winstons have done," said Brent Haglund, Sand County Foundation President. "Families like the Winstons show us that the ethic and spirit of Aldo Leopold's writing and work continues."

Mrs. Winston accepted the Leopold crystal award and a check for $10,000 at the annual Lone Star Land Steward Awards dinner in Austin on May 21.

"The property has an active wildlife habitat improvement program that involves timber management, prescribed burning, invasive species control, and native habitat restoration," noted U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Jeffrey A. Reid in his nomination of the Winston 8 Ranch. "It is obvious [the Winston family is] planning for the long-term and not just immediate wants and needs."

Reid's nomination listed these accomplishments:

"The Winston legacy and dedication to stewardship is entrenched in their core family values," Reid said. "When John Winston acquired the property in the 1970s, it was largely a cutover track of land. Intensive planting, management, and harvesting have led this property to be held up as one of the premier examples of multiple use forest land and open pine management."

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SAN JOSE -- Firefighters raced to put out an apparent electrical fire that torched the first-floor of an East San Jose home Thursday and discovered a large pot grow upstairs that was untouched by the flames, authorities said.

Now the San Jose Police Department is working to get to the stem of the operation, which yielded at least 100 marijuana plants that were seized by investigators.

The San Jose Fire Department was called at 10:14 a.m. after a passer-by saw what looked like a garage fire in the 2500 block of Brahms Avenue, near Eastridge Mall and the intersection of Quimby and Tully roads. Flames raced through the first floor, damaging cars in the garage and spreading to other rooms, fire Capt. Mike Van Elgort said.

But the first-alarm response kept the fire from spreading beyond the first floor and contained it to the affected home. It was when firefighters were making their way to the second floor that they spotted marijuana plants.

"The second floor was undamaged and appears to be used as a growhouse," Van Elgort said. "Up in those rooms, no people, just grow products. A high volume of grow products."

It might explain what caused the fire, as illegal growers are known to tamper with a home's wiring and bypass electrical meters to power their enterprises. Van Elgort would not comment on the exact cause of the blaze, citing the concurrent police investigation, but did not dissuade the theory.

"The cause appears to be electrical. I feel fairly confident we can state that," he said. "The guys did a really good job preventing it from extending into he second floor."

No injuries were reported. One of the home's three adult residents was home when the fire broke out but escaped along with four Chihuahuas rescued by firefighters. The resident was not arrested, and it is not clear what, if any, connection that person has to the pot growing operation. The rental home is now being treated as a crime scene.

The fire highlighted a rising trend of illegal indoor pot grows operating in the suburbs of San Jose. Van Elgort noted that at a glance, there would be no hint that such activity was happening at the Brahms Avenue home. Like other grow houses, it looked like just another home, hiding in plain sight until catching fire, which happened twice within four days in San Jose in March.

Besides the fire risks from tampering with electrical systems, the clandestine growing operations can be an indicator of organized crime entering a neighborhood: In the South Bay, grow houses are often run by gangs affiliated with Vietnamese coffee houses, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, which staffs the region's only full-time marijuana eradication detail.

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