Canyon

Texas Parks and Wildlife named the H. E. Butt Foundation as a winner of the 2019 Lone Star Land Steward Award, celebrating private landowners’ accomplishments in habitat management and wildlife conservation.

We view giving as an essential part of transformation and renewal. When someone makes a contribution, we hope it is a thoughtful, prayerful, and joyful experience. Your gifts, without a doubt, help touch and change lives.

Echo Valley’s resident trilingual maintenance expert—and former university biochemistry instructor—mostly just loves Jesus and people.

Since 2015, Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist Bill Armstrong has led formal prescribed burns every year.

Garven Store is a staple among camp road trips—and has been since the day when the Butt family first set eyes on the Canyon.

In 2014, David and Deborah Rogers said, “Fifty years from now, we want the Foundation camp property to be even healthier and more beautiful than it is today.” Three years later, the Property Planning & Stewardship team completed its first-ever comprehensive Land Stewardship Plan to support diverse, balanced, robust, and native animal and plant life in the Frio River Canyon.

In 2012, San Antonio had the highest rate of socio-economic segregation in the country.

The Foundation has long been committed to caring for the Canyon. Today, David and Deborah Rogers are leading initiatives to ensure that the Canyon flourishes—that its environmental health is strengthened—in years to come.

These inflatables are among the most popular outdoor features of Singing Hills and Echo Valley camps. “They provide the thrill we’ve always imagined,” says Pruitt. “Campers are up and down and off the sides all day long.”

This is how we serve 88,000 individual meals over a 9-week stretch each summer to young campers, teenagers, college staff and families. Flexibility is key.

Blue Hole is part of the “remarkable ecosystem” of the Frio River and has become a favorite memory created in the Canyon.