Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Andrew Sansom
  • Acknowledgments / Ed Crowell
  • Introduction
  • The end: a bustling cityscape where an aquifer's springs fill a historic pool
  • Saving salamanders: searching for, counting, and raising two endangered species
  • Family lands: the Starks' summer camp and the family legacy of Truman Breed
  • Public battles: Barton Springs uprising stokes decades of political and legal fights
  • Shield Ranch: six miles and sixty-eight hundred acres of protected water and land
  • Wild Greenbelt: pleasures, dangers, and challenges in canyons above Barton Springs
  • Hidden neighbors: famed author's retreat and the nature conservancy's preserve
  • Vireos and warblers: working to keep thousands of acres of habitat beckoning birds
  • Checking for pollutants: watershed checkups amid new pressures from development
  • Generations of care: rancher Henry Brooks and the Puryears protect their lands
  • Conserving history: reviewing an easement where an 1800s pioneer era ended
  • The beginning: Ralph Roy Breed's pasture trickle and a farm for cheesemaking
  • Further reading and resources.