Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 138 pages) : color illustrations, color map. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
River books
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River books (Series)
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Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Rivers -- Texas.
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Rivers. |
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Texas. |
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Wetlands -- Texas.
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Wetlands. |
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Water conservation -- Texas.
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Water conservation. |
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Water use -- Texas.
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Water use. |
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Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Texas.
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Water resources development -- Environmental aspects. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Kramer, Ken, 1947-
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Kruvand, Charles, 1956-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Living waters of Texas. 1st ed. College Station, [Tex.] : Texas A & M University Press, ©2010 9781603442015 (DLC) 2010003597 (OCoLC)522429238 |
ISBN |
9781603443128 (electronic book) |
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1603443126 (electronic book) |
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9781603442015 |
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1603442014 |
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