Barton Creek / Ed Crowell ; photographs by Alberto Martinez ; foreword by Andrew Sansom.
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | River books (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- 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.