Business interests and wildlife preservation are on a collision course at the Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

One faction, led by pro-Caddo Lake organizations, wants the entire 2,300 acres transferred to the refuge after the U.S. Army addresses contaminants left by its Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant.

About 6,000 acres from the Army property was previously used to create the refuge.

Another faction – headed by local attorney Sam Moseley, businessman Tommy Whaley and about a dozen other people, who Moseley did not name – wants an undetermined portion of the land transferred to the state of Texas and then used for business development.

Moseley said he and his associates have not chosen an exact site they prefer for development, but emphasize they want the development for Harrison County, to create jobs, not for themselves.

Both sides have previously stated their opinion, but to reiterate, the environmentalists do not believe industry should be built next to a wildlife refuge, that industry (or business) would harm the wildlife refuge and possibly lead to pollution that could harm the refuge and that industry on the site would harm a burgeoning ecotourism business, among other things.

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