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TWRI monitors progress of White Creek tributary restoration efforts
On the sprawling Texas A&M University campus, a tributary of White Creek begins near the Horticulture/Forest Science Building and flows into White Creek just before the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The land around this tributary is part of the recently established Gardens at Texas A&M and is home to native plants and wildlife, including over…
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Meet a scientist: Daniel Roelke
From the Sea of Galilee in Israel, to the northern Gulf of Mexico, to a neotropical river in Venezuela, Dr. Daniel Roelke’s research has led him all over the world — in pursuit of species smaller than a drop of water. An associate professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Department of Oceanography,…
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TWDB officially adopts 2017 State Water Plan
The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) unanimously voted to adopt the 2017 State Water Plan at its May 19 meeting. “The new state water plan projects that Texas’ population will increase more than 70 percent by the year 2070,” said TWDB Board Chairman Bech Bruun. “And the 2017 State Water Plan is our most comprehensive effort to date to…
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RFP: Annual Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources grants
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources (IWR), in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources (NIWR) requests proposals for grants to support applied investigations in select topic areas related to water resources issues in the United States. Grant proposals may request up to $200,000 in federal funds, but proposals for lesser amounts are encouraged.…
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Courses in Dallas June 13-14 will spotlight stakeholder engagement
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) Texas Watershed Planning Program is hosting a two-course series on watershed stakeholder engagement for water and natural resources professionals June 13-14 in Dallas. The first course, Getting in Step – Top 10 Outreach Tips that Won’t Break the Bank, will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 13 at the Texas…
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TWRI hosting three summer meetings on improving Tres Palacios Creek water quality
The Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) is hosting three meetings this summer for anyone interested in improving and protecting the Tres Palacios Creek watershed along the Texas Gulf Coast. The Tres Palacios Watershed stakeholder meetings will be June 14, July 7 and Aug. 9. All three meetings will be at 1:30 p.m. at the First…
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Texas landowners earn Lone Star Land Steward Awards for conservation efforts
Every year, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), in partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, honors landowners from across the state with the Lone Star Land Steward Award for their contributions to natural resource conservation and management. This year, TPWD honored seven winners from six ecologically diverse regions of the state as some of…
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Another year of conservation impacts: new IRNR and TWRI annual reports
From longleaf pine forest management to big-city water conservation technologies, and from tracking Louisiana pine snakes to helping water well owners, the Texas A&M Institute for Renewable Natural Resources (IRNR) and the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) spent 2015 improving water and natural resources conservation and management all over Texas and the country. IRNR continued to lead private land…
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Meet a scientist: Wendy Jepson
For some people, having access to clean water is not as easy as simply turning on a faucet. Some of the United States’ poorest regions rely on inadequate water delivery systems, unaffordable potable water or unclean tap water for their household water use. This is a reality for tens of thousands of households in colonias,…
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Photo essay: Navasota River water quality monitoring
One morning in March, Conservation Matters joined up with members of the Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) water team to get a behind the scenes look at the water quality monitoring process. Check out this photo essay to see what it takes to survey and measure water quality in the Navasota River. Rising in the Hill County roughly 10 miles northeast…
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