In a news release, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Gulf of Mexico Program has unveiled a set of recommendations aimed at expediting the restoration of oysters in the Gulf of Mexico. The comprehensive …
That launched Hughes into other, bigger conservation projects, including the Volusia Conservation Corridor.
“Reid played an important role at a critical time in Florida’s conservation history, Bob Bendick, director of The Nature Conservancy s Gulf Restoration Program, said in an email Henderson shared. While we mourn his passing, he leaves a lasting legacy of land and water saved.”
Building a business
But before he got to Florida, Hughes was the son of a single, schoolteacher mother who survived the Texas dust bowl by picking cotton.
His oldest daughter, Cyndi Hughes Parker, said he was an athlete and a one-time sportswriter who went to the University of Southern California, then the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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