Richard LeTourneau

Longview | Machinist, Metal Fabricator

Mr. LeTourneau is a machinist and metal fabricator in Longview, but has also been active in hunting, fishing, camping, and protecting forestlands and free-flowing streams in east Texas. He has worked particularly hard on opposition to the Little Cypress Reservoir and the Waters Bluff / Belzora Landing Reservoirs, and in seeking more environmentally sensitive and financially prudent alternatives to reservoir construction through participation in the Senate Bill 1 Northeast Texas Regional Water Planning Group, by serving on the board of the Texas Conservation Alliance, (formerly, the Texas Comittee for Natural Resources and via founding and leading a new non-profit group, Friends of the Sabine.