Living Waters of Texas (eBook)

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 thesprings, 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 Federation, and the Environmental Defense Fund, among others), editor Ken Kramer joins his fellow activists in a call to keep rivers flowing, to protect wildlife habitat, and to save tax dollars by using water efficiently and sustainability.INSIDETHISBOOK:Introduction: the Living Waters of TexasKen KramerWhere the First Raindrop FallsDavid K. LangfordSpringing to Life: Keeping the Waters FlowingDianne WassenichHooked on RiversMyron J. HessFalling in Love with Bottomlands: Waters and Forests of East TexasJanice BezansonOn the Banks of the Bayous: Preserving Nature in an Urban EnvironmentMary Ellen WhitworthA Taste of the MarshSusan Raleigh KaderkaBays and Estuaries of Texas: An Ephemeral Treasure?Ben F. Vaughan IIIRio Grande: Fragile Lifeline in the DesertMary E. KellyLeaving a Water Legacy for TexasAnn Thomas HamiltonTexas Water Politics: Forty Years of Going with the FlowKen Kramer