The living waters of Texas /

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, estuari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kramer, Ken, 1947-, Kruvand, Charles, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station [Tex.] : Texas A & M University Press, ©2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:River books (Series)
Temas:
Rivers > Texas.
Wetlands > Texas.
Water conservation > Texas.
Water use > Texas.
Water resources development > Environmental aspects > Texas.
Cours d'eau > Texas.
Zones humides > Texas.
Eau > Conservation > Texas.
Eau > Utilisation > Texas.
Ressources en eau > Exploitation > Aspect de l'environnement > Texas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Rivers
Water conservation
Water resources development > Environmental aspects
Water use
Wetlands
Texas
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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