James King is a sixth-generation descendant of Captain Richard King and grew up in Corpus Christi and on family ranches in South Texas. After graduating in 1981 from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Rangeland Ecology, James started a career in Natural Resource Conservation and Real Estate. With The Nature Conservancy, James led efforts to protect over 500,000 acres of our state’s most important conservation lands and waters. He has additionally protected over 300,000 acres in landscapes such as the Devils River, Lower Pecos River, Davis Mountains, Marfa Grasslands, and Chinati Mountains using private conservation tools like Conservation Easements and Conservation Buyers. In 2008 he started his own statewide conservation real estate business, King Land & Water LLC, with wife Tammy and now their son Harrison. James is active today in many major ranch and conservation projects across the state, representing both buyers and sellers of unique lands. James serves on the board of the Texas Land Trust Council, Borderlands Research Foundation, Borderlands Research Institute, McDonald Observatory Board of Visitors, Friends of Lydia Ann Channel, and is President of Port Aransas Conservancy.