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Book Barton Creek

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ed Crowell
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-03
  • ISBN : 1623497299
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book Barton Creek written by Ed Crowell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Barton Springs Pool is an iconic landmark of Austin and many people are familiar with the end of Barton Creek and its seven miles of public greenbelt, less is known about the forty-odd miles beyond that tumble and twist across private lands, eventually feeding the Colorado River. Legendary fights saved Barton Springs in the 1980s and 1990s, when the pool repeatedly was closed because of pollutant runoff from streets, nearby construction, and leaking sewer lines. In 1992, a highly publicized campaign resulted in land protections and stricter water standards. But will the creek and its springs become fouled again? That possibility arises upstream where tributaries and other creeks flow across mostly rural acreage, attracting new housing and business developments. Not only would city bathers lose access to the pool, but endangered species of salamanders and birds that depend on the Edwards Aquifer and its unique habitats face an uncertain future. Following the creek from downtown Austin’s Barton Springs Pool to its source as a cow-pasture trickle, longtime resident and journalist Ed Crowell explores the creek’s contentious political history, its historic and current residents, and the mounting environmental pressures threatening it. Barton Creek highlights the passionate individuals involved in the stream’s preservation, from city scientists to local landowners, who want to see the creek running clear and clean for future generations. Striking photography and vivid descriptions will entice readers to fall in love with Barton Creek all over again.

Book To the Front

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claudia Friddell
  • Publisher : Astra Publishing House
  • Release : 2022-03-01
  • ISBN : 1635925584
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book To the Front written by Claudia Friddell and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful tribute to Civil War nurse Clara Barton and her heroic efforts during the Battle of Antietam reveals how she earned the name "The Angel of the Battlefield," and shows the beginnings of her journey as one of our country's greatest humanitarians and the founder of the American Red Cross. During the Civil War, Clara Barton—one of the first women to receive permission to serve on a battlefield—snuck her supply wagon to the head of a ten-mile wagon train to deliver provisions to the Antietam Battlefield. On the bloodiest day in American history, Clara and her team of helpers sprang into action as they nursed the wounded and dying, cooked meals for soldiers, and provided doctors with desperately needed medical supplies and lanterns so they could operate through the night. Author Claudia Friddell blends her words with Clara Barton’s firsthand account to capture the nurse’s brave actions, while Christopher Cyr’s dramatically accurate illustrations portray one of the most heroic women in history.

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geological Survey Water supply Paper

Download or read book Geological Survey Water supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Photographing Austin  San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country  Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them

Download or read book Photographing Austin San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them written by Laurence Parent and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in the exciting series that combines wanderlust with the art of photography! Ask a Texan to name his favorite part of the state and he’ll probably say the Hill Country. This rolling open country, crisscrossed by creeks and rivers, wooded with ancient live oaks and junipers, holds many rewarding sites for photographers—like the huge granite dome of Enchanted Rock, and the cypress-lined Guadalupe River. Laurence Parent shows you the best photo spots in the most popular places as well as the best photo ops in the area’s little-known gems. He also covers scenic spots to photograph in the two large cities on the edge of the Hill Country—Austin and San Antonio. Not only does he help you identify great locations, he also offers solid advice on the best time of year to visit, the best time of day to shoot, and tips and techniques for getting the most out of your time.

Book Texas  A Guide to the Lone Star State

Download or read book Texas A Guide to the Lone Star State written by and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Customer Acceptance of Water Main Structural Reliability

Download or read book Customer Acceptance of Water Main Structural Reliability written by Nimmi Damodaran and published by American Water Works Association. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reports on an evaluation approach for utilities to use to assess customer perceptions, attitudes, and expectations for water system reliability; their tolerance to service disruptions and construction impacts; and their willingness to pay for expected levels of service. Strategies discussed include methods for assessing customers' perceptions and expectations, costs of infrastructure strategies, how to incorporate external costs, and a plan to communicate with customers.

Book Water Resources Data

Download or read book Water Resources Data written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: v. 1. Arkansas River Basin, Red River Basin, Sabine River Basin, Neches River Basin, Trinity River Basin, and intervening coastal basins -- v. 2. San Jacinto River Basin, Brazos River Basin, San Bernard River Basin and intervening coastal basins -- v. 3. Colorado River Basin, Lavaca River Basin, Guadalupe River Basin, Nueces River Basin, Rio Grande Basin, and intervening coastal basins.

Book Distant Publics

Download or read book Distant Publics written by Jennifer Rice and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2012-08-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban sprawl is omnipresent in America and has left many citizens questioning their ability to stop it. In Distant Publics, Jenny Rice examines patterns of public discourse that have evolved in response to development in urban and suburban environments. Centering her study on Austin, Texas, Rice finds a city that has simultaneously celebrated and despised development. Rice outlines three distinct ways that the rhetoric of publics counteracts development: through injury claims, memory claims, and equivalence claims. In injury claims, rhetors frame themselves as victims in a dispute. Memory claims allow rhetors to anchor themselves to an older, deliberative space, rather than to a newly evolving one. Equivalence claims see the benefits on both sides of an issue, and here rhetors effectively become nonactors. Rice provides case studies of development disputes that place the reader in the middle of real-life controversies and evidence her theories of claims-based public rhetorics. She finds that these methods comprise the most common (though not exclusive) vernacular surrounding development and shows how each is often counterproductive to its own goals. Rice further demonstrates that these claims create a particular role or public subjectivity grounded in one's own feelings, which serves to distance publics from each other and the issues at hand. Rice argues that rhetoricians have a duty to transform current patterns of public development discourse so that all individuals may engage in matters of crisis. She articulates its sustainability as both a goal and future disciplinary challenge of rhetorical studies and offers tools and methodologies toward that end.

Book Barton Creek and Barton Springs Petition to Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission for Designation as Outstanding National Resource Waters

Download or read book Barton Creek and Barton Springs Petition to Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission for Designation as Outstanding National Resource Waters written by Save Barton Creek Association and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U S  Geological Survey Circular

Download or read book U S Geological Survey Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan  Travis County

Download or read book Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan Travis County written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geographies of Urban Sound

Download or read book Geographies of Urban Sound written by Dr Torsten Wissmann and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking into account both the urban soundscape and the impacts of sound on the urban dweller, this book examines sound not as a by-product of urban life, but as a fundamental part of the urban experience that is crucial to understanding the city’s sense of place. Illustrated by case studies from Europe and North America, these range from on-site measurements to the construction of audio tours for local tourism, from media analysis of popular culture audio drama to sound-identity and city branding, and from the classification of noise in city planning to a consideration of the complex relationship between sacred sound and the creation of a sense of place.

Book The Barton Banner

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book The Barton Banner written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Water Resources Data for Texas

Download or read book Water Resources Data for Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: v. 1. Arkansas River Basin, Red River Basin, Sabine River Basin, Neches River Basin, Trinity River Basin, and intervening coastal basins -- v. 2. San Jacinto River Basin, Brazos River Basin, San Bernard River Basin and intervening coastal basins -- v. 3. Colorado River Basin, Lavaca River Basin, Guadalupe River Basin, Nueces River Basin, Rio Grande Basin, and intervening coastal basins.