'Green' burials are helping restore Texas land. Not everyone digs the trend.

'Green' burials are helping restore Texas land. Not everyone digs the trend.

BROOKSHIRE, TEXAS — Denise Manos stood under the hot Texas sun, staring at the 68-acre prairie springing to life ahead of her. She’d come here, to the newly opened Blazing Star Sanctuary in Brookshire, Texas, “to face the unfaceable,” she said. Her eyes scanned the flat, grassy expanse where conservationists are revitalizing the soil so it can become home once again to the tallgrass prairie that once covered 20 million acres of Texas land. Somed…