The living waters of Texas:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station, [Tex.] Texas A&M University Press c2010
Edition:1st ed
Series:River books (Series)
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes index
Introduction : the living waters of Texas / Ken Kramer -- Where the first raindrop falls / David K. Langford -- Springing to life : keeping the waters flowing / Dianne Wassenich -- Hooked on rivers / Myron J. Hess -- Falling in love with bottomlands : waters and forests of East Texas / Janice Bezanson -- On the banks of the bayous : preserving nature in an urban environment / Mary Ellen Whitworth -- A taste of the marsh / Susan Raleigh Kaderka -- Bays and estuaries of Texas : an ephemeral treasure? / Ben F. Vaughan III -- Rio Grande : fragile lifeline in the desert / Mary E. Kelly -- Leaving a water legacy for Texas / Ann Thomas Hamilton -- Texas water politics : forty years of going with the flow / Ken Kramer -- Appendix : Selected list of conservation organizations interested in Texas water issues
In ten impassioned essays, veteran Texas environmental advocates and conservation professionals step outside their roles as lawyers, lobbyists, administrators, consultants, and researchers to write about water. Their personal stories of what the springs, rivers, bottomlands, bayous, marshes, estuaries, bays, lakes, and reservoirs mean to them and to our state come alive in the landscape photography of Charles Kruvand. Allied with the Texas Living Waters Project (a joint education and policy initiative of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 138 p.)
ISBN:1603442014
1603443126
9781603442015
9781603443128

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