The Blanco River / Wes Ferguson ; photography by Jacob Croft Botter ; foreword by Andrew Sansom.

Author
Ferguson, Wes [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2017]
Description
170 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm.

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    Summary note
    For eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. But Spanish explorers named it the White River for the pale limestone they encountered along its banks and dramatic bluffs. Over the last two years, Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They have explored its history, people, wildlife, and the natural beauty that surprises everyone who experiences this river. Described as "the defining element in some of the Hill Country's most beautiful scenery," the Blanco flows both above and below ground, part of a network of rivers and aquifers that sustains the region's wildlife and millions of humans alike. However, overpumping and prolonged drought have combined to weaken the Blanco's flow and sustenance, and in 2000 -- for the first time in recorded history -- the river's most significant feeder spring, Jacob's Well, briefly ceased to flow. It stopped again in 2008. Then, in the spring of 2015, a devastating flood killed twelve people and toppled the huge cypress trees along its banks, altering not just the look of the river, but the communities that had come to depend on its serene presence. River travelers Ferguson and Botter tell the remarkable story of this changeable river, confronting challenges and dangers as well as rare opportunities to see parts of the river few have seen. The authors also photographed and recorded the human response to the destruction of a beloved natural resource that has become yet another episode in the story of water in Texas.
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Contents
    • Foreword / by Andrew Sansom
    • The White River
    • The suburbs
    • The battles of the Blanco
    • The headwaters
    • The upper Blanco
    • The town, not the river
    • River intruders
    • The river rises
    • Into Wimberley
    • Li'l ark
    • Halifax Ranch
    • An ancient sea
    • The end of the river
    • Where buffalo roamed
    • The deluge begins
    • The Wimberley flood
    • Recovery.
    ISBN
    • 9781623495107 ((flexbound (with flaps) ; : alk. paper))
    • 1623495105
    • 9781623495114 ((e-book))
    • 1623495113
    SuDoc no.
    Z TA475.8 F381BL
    LCCN
    2016039308
    OCLC
    959922579
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