The Leona River at Bob Shackleford’s residence off Farm to Market Road 140 photographed in 2018 and in February 2025 (Photo courtesy of Bob Shackleford) The ferns, elephant ears, and mustang grape vines that once covered the Leona River bank at Bob Shackleford’s home off Farm to Market Road 140 have died. The only vegetation covering the riverbank is a graveyard of tree limbs. “You can’t get to the river [bed] because it’s filled with dead trees…
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