By Rick Taylor, Wildlife Biologist/Associate Broker Most Texas hunters and landowners want to produce and/or harvest the best bucks they can. For landowners, the better the bucks, the better the economic return. For hunters, the ultimate goal of harvesting a record-book white-tailed deer is the climax of years of hard work, money, and dedication. Most agree that the basic formula ...
Richard B. “Rick” Taylor
Richard B. “Rick” Taylor
Broker Associate/Wildlife Consultant
Boerne, TX
(830) 279-2384 | rick.taylor@yahoo.com
Richard B. “Rick” Taylor is a Certified Wildlife Biologist with over 30 years of experience in natural resource management. A range and wildlife graduate of Texas A& I University (Texas A& M Kingsville), he worked as a senior staff biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for 27 years. During his tenure, he provided technical assistance to private landowners on over 1.5 million acres of Texas rangeland in the South Texas, Edwards Plateau, Post Oak Prairies, and Coastal Prairies ecological regions. Rick is an expert in wildlife and rangeland ecology providing technical assistance in white-tailed deer and other game species management, game bird management, non-game wildlife management, livestock management, water management, and habitat management including mechanical, and prescribed burns. His technical guidance has won landowners the prestigious Lone Star Land Stewardship Award for the Edwards Plateau Ecological region in 2004, the South Texas Ecological region in 2006, and the Aldo Leopold Statewide Land Stewardship Award for 2012.
Rick has been a licensed real estate agent for over fifteen years and attained his Broker’s license certification six years ago. He is a life member of the National Rifle Association, and Life Member of the San Antonio Livestock Show. He currently serves as an advisor to the Uvalde County Appraisal District specializing in wildlife management and subsequent tax exemptions. In the past, Rick was an adjunct wildlife instructor for Southwest Texas Junior College and past board member of their Wildlife Department Advisory Board.
He is the author and/or co-author of several books and numerous technical and non-technical publications including, “On Wild Hogs and Javelinas”, “Common Woody Plants and Cacti of South Texas”, “A Field Guide to Common South Texas Shrubs”, “Brush Management for White-tailed Deer”, “The Feral Hog in Texas”, and “The Javelina in Texas”. His articles have appeared in Texas Trophy Hunter, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and Texas Wildlife magazines.
Rick has been married to his wonderful wife for 22 years, has three grown children and currently resides in Uvalde, Texas.
Agent's Articles:
Managing Quality Deer Through Harvest Management
By Rick Taylor, Wildlife Biologist/Associate Broker While reading a Texas hunting magazine recently, I couldn’t help but notice how many Ranches and Outfitters advertised deer management programs while peddling their trophy white-tailed deer hunts. Unfortunately, some of the “trophy management” applications that many hunting operations, as well as individual well-meaning hunters, are applying, are very questionable. They may include harvesting ...
Managing Feral Hogs in Texas
BY: Rick Taylor, Associate Broker, Wildlife Biologist The feral hog, Russian boar, Razorback, Rooter, or whatever you prefer to call it, is a topic of campfire banter and heated debate throughout Texas and much of the U.S. From the boardroom to the bunkroom, no other creature stirs the emotions of so many people. Sportsmen, ranchers, biologists, ecologists, and even developers ...