Barton Creek / Ed Crowell ; photographs by Alberto Martinez ; foreword by Andrew Sansom.
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TextSeries: River books (Series)Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (126 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781623497309
- 1623497302
- Barton Creek (Hayes County and Travis County, Tex.) -- Environmental conditions
- Springs -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Environmental conditions
- Spring ecology -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country
- Environmental protection -- Texas -- Austin -- Citizen participation
- Water conservation -- Texas -- Austin
- Sources (Hydrographie) -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Conditions environnementales
- Écologie des sources -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country
- Environnement -- Protection -- Texas -- Austin -- Participation des citoyens
- Eau -- Conservation -- Texas -- Austin
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General
- Ecology
- Environmental protection -- Citizen participation
- Spring ecology
- Water conservation
- Texas -- Austin
- Texas -- Texas Hill Country
- 333.91/620976431 23
- TD171.3.T42 T493 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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