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- Graduate student, Jason Lombardi, checks a trap camera for the ocelot monitoring project.
- Ocelot Conservation
  
  East Foundation works to collect data on ocelot population size, survival and mortality, movements and activity, prey abundance and food habits, habitat use, and competition with other carnivores to solidify recovery strategies. We are dedicated to providing knowledge related to ocelot conservation on private lands.
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- Educator, Elisa Velador, prepares “Skins and Skulls” lesson on animal adaptation.
- Field Lessons are back!
  
  East Foundation’s education staff provide field lessons on our ranches so that students can participate in outdoor learning experiences in a living classroom. The interactive lessons and activities presented on these field lessons encourage students to connect with the natural world while learning about ranching, wildlife, and land stewardship. There is no cost to participating schools, so please, join us!
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We do what's right for the land and the life that depends on it.

Our Story

East Foundation promotes the advancement of land stewardship through ranching, science, and education.

Our Team

In keeping with the East family’s wishes, our team ensures that ranching and wildlife management work together to conserve healthy rangelands.

Our Land

Our land is a working laboratory where scientists and managers work together to address issues important to wildlife management, rangeland health, and ranch productivity.

Easteños: True Cowboys of the Wild Horse Desert

October 2021

Landscape Structure of Woody Cover Patches for Endangered Ocelots in Southern Texas

October 2021
Ocelot Conservation

Few ecological studies have explored landscape suitability using the gradient concept of landscape structure for wildlife species. Identification of conditions influencing the landscape ecology of endangered species allows for development of more robust recovery strategies.