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By Ken W. Kramer,Charles Kruvand

ISBN-10: 1603442014

ISBN-13: 9781603442015

In ten impassioned essays, veteran Texas environmental advocates and conservation execs step outdoor their roles as legal professionals, lobbyists, directors, specialists, and researchers to jot down approximately water. Their own tales of what the springs, rivers, bottomlands, bayous, marshes, estuaries, bays, lakes, and reservoirs suggest to them and to our nation come alive within the panorama images of Charles Kruvand.
 
Allied with the Texas dwelling Waters undertaking (a joint schooling and coverage initiative of the Lone big name bankruptcy of the Sierra membership, the nationwide natural world Federation, and the Environmental safety Fund, between others), editor Ken Kramer joins his fellow activists in a decision to maintain rivers flowing, to guard natural world habitat, and to avoid wasting tax funds through the use of water successfully and sustainably (http://www.texaswatermatters.org/). 
 
INSIDE THIS BOOK:
Introduction: the dwelling Waters of Texas—Ken Kramer
Where the 1st Raindrop Falls—David ok. Langford
Springing to lifestyles: maintaining 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: keeping Nature in an city Environment—Mary Ellen Whitworth
A flavor of the Marsh—Susan Raleigh Kaderka
Bays and Estuaries of Texas: An Ephemeral Treasure?—Ben F. Vaughan III
Rio Grande: Fragile Lifeline within the Desert—Mary E. Kelly
Leaving a Water Legacy for Texas—Ann Thomas Hamilton
Texas Water Politics: 40 Years of Going with the Flow—Ken Kramer

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