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.