{"product_id":"9781603442015","title":"The Living Waters of Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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, estuaries, bays, lakes, and reservoirs mean to them and to our state come alive in the landscape photography of Charles Kruvand.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAllied with the Texas Living Waters Project (a joint education and policy initiative of the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Environmental Defense Fund, among others), editor Ken Kramer joins his fellow activists in a call to keep rivers flowing, to protect wildlife habitat, and to save tax dollars by using water efficiently and sustainably (http:\/\/www.texaswatermatters.org\/). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eINSIDE THIS BOOK:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the Living Waters of Texas—Ken Kramer\u003cbr\u003eWhere the First Raindrop Falls—David K. Langford\u003cbr\u003eSpringing to Life: Keeping the Waters Flowing—Dianne Wassenich\u003cbr\u003eHooked on Rivers—Myron J. Hess\u003cbr\u003eFalling in Love with Bottomlands: Waters and Forests of East Texas—Janice Bezanson\u003cbr\u003eOn the Banks of the Bayous: Preserving Nature in an Urban Environment—Mary Ellen Whitworth\u003cbr\u003eA Taste of the Marsh—Susan Raleigh Kaderka\u003cbr\u003eBays and Estuaries of Texas: An Ephemeral Treasure?—Ben F. Vaughan III\u003cbr\u003eRio Grande: Fragile Lifeline in the Desert—Mary E. Kelly\u003cbr\u003eLeaving a Water Legacy for Texas—Ann Thomas Hamilton\u003cbr\u003eTexas Water Politics: Forty Years of Going with the Flow—Ken Kramer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas A\u0026M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054967308528,"sku":"9781603442015","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603442015_p0.jpg?v=1763826779","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603442015","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}