Stewardship
Access to nature is a vitally important factor for many people when choosing where to live. The health benefits, recreational opportunities, and sense of well-being that come with living in a beautiful natural environment are enormous. This lies at the heart of our vision for San Jacinto Ranch.
Our vision for stewardship isn’t about creating a development with some agriculture on the side — it’s about a landscape where soil, forests, cattle, communities, and culture all work together to create special places. It’s regenerative agriculture scaled up—not just a strategy to manage land, but to preserve our regional identity, enrich our towns, and improve our economic engine.
The Ranch
It all begins with the ground beneath us. If nothing else, our legacy should be measured in soil. Improving soil quality is not just an agricultural practice; it is an investment in long-term land value, ecological resilience, and nutrient security.
Pastureland for Registered Cattle
Preserving the Southern Bison Herd
Pineywoods Cattle as Stewards of the Forest
Cattle and bison are not merely livestock, but ecological partners.
Pineywoods cows act as a living maintenance crew, registered cattle generate revenue, and bison restore a wilder, deeper grazing rhythm across the land. Together, they form a regenerative system that boosts biodiversity, restores ecological health, increases topsoil production, improves economic resilience, and is built to endure.
10,000 grazing acres
by the end of 2026
The Forest
1,500 acres of longleaf forest restoration and much more to come
Natural Regeneration = Longer Cycles
New Longleaf Savanna
Forest Range Grazing with Pineywoods Cattle
We grow healthier, more valuable forests.
Restoring longleaf pine forests and managing loblolly plantations for natural regeneration and improved genetics, we grow healthier, more valuable forests that strengthen ecology, support the economy, and honor the historic rural character of San Jacinto County, Texas.
Lost Creek Hunt Club
12,000 acres in transition to MLD / 900 acre high fence
The Lost Creek Hunt Club, through the MLD Program and careful stewardship, manages deer to support thriving wildlife and flourishing native plant communities, creating resilient, diverse, and naturally beautiful landscapes.
Our San Jacinto Ranch Team
Jeremy B. Jordan
Landscape Architect, Stewardship Director
ranch managerJohnny Don Watson
Rancher, Project Implementation, Ranch Lessee
livestock manager
Farmer, Regenerative Agriculture Consultant
agriculture DirectorGabrielle “Gaabi” Hathaway
Forester, Project Facilitator
Land Management Craig Whealy
Bailey Rodríguez
Bison Manager Rancher, Bison Specialist
Lost Creek Hunt Club, President
Hunting and WildlifeBlake Dykes
Susan Olmsted
Ranch Programming Landscape Architect, Trails, and Amenities
Ryan Gravel
Strategic PartnershipsPlanner and Liaison with TX-DOT, NFS, County
Josh Clarke
Earthworks and Farm RoadsContractor
Andrew Sherogan
(Landscape) Artist Artist, The Land Art Project
Fernando Pages Ruiz
Facilities Manager Facilities and Construction Management
Chris Bartley
Forestry Forest and Land Management
William Newman
Forest and Land Management
Forestry 
