Category: Environmental Flows
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Authors of Science Journal article strive to save world’s mightiest rivers
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – A group of 40 international scientists led by a College of Agriculture and Life Sciences professor says three of the earth’s mightiest rivers are being ravaged in the name of progress. The findings of Dr. Kirk Winemiller, Regents Professor in the department of wildlife and fisheries sciences and…
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TWRI Mills Scholar Tony Rodger finds high flow events critical for lower Brazos fish
By Leslie Lee Tony Rodger, who graduated earlier this month with a master’s degree from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University, studied minnow species in the lower Brazos River Basin to determine how environmental flows affected early life stage survival. His study concluded that high flow events help maintain the biodiversity…
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If you rebuild it, they will come back
Re-establishing environmental flows in Caddo Lake brings back the paddlefish By Sara Carney When visitors travel to Caddo Lake on the Texas-Louisiana border, they may see people canoeing on the blue-green water, navigating between the towering bald cypress trees and the Spanish moss that sweeps down from the branches. They may see fishers catching largemouth…
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Environmental Flows Research highlighted in txH2O
Environmental Flows research was highlighted in the Texas Water Resources Institute’s Summer 2012 edition of txH2O. Running the Rivers Scientists say 2011 drought showed importance of environmental flows regulations Read complete article at http://twri.tamu.edu/publications/txh2o/summer-2012/running-the-rivers/ Determining and maintaining the balance between ecological and human needs has not been easy, and hundreds of stakeholders and scientists have participated…