Texas Gators: Guardians of the Swamps, Masters of the Bayous

By Murray Montgomery Staff Writer Growing up on the Gulf Coast in Brazoria County, Texas, I am very familiar with alligators (gators). I was around them at my jobs with a seismograph crew exploring for oil and with a survey team for the Texas Highway Department. In that type of work, you are continuously out in the boondocks, so gators and snakes were very common. I found that when you are…