BY STEVE CLARK STAFF WRITER
The “Campaign to Save Camp Lula Sams” has gotten a boost from the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation in the form of a $5,000 grant to help implement an eco-tourism effort launched by the nonprofit Wildlife Conservation and Education Society of South Texas.
The Lula Sams campaign aims to raise $875,000 to trigger an equal match from IDEA Public Schools to buy out the 85.7-acre former Girl Scout camp’s private owners and put the virgin land — it’s never been cleared or developed — under a conservation easement administered by the Valley Land Fund in order to preserve the property in perpetuity.
