The Texas Legacy Project: Stories of Courage and Conservation
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603442006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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A city dweller’s vacant lot A rancher's back forty A hiker's favorite park When the places that we love are threatened, we can be stirred to action. Records of the archive are available at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.Five dollars of the cost of this book goes to environmentally friendly materials and processes.. This book holds stories from more than sixty people who represent a variety of causes, communities, and walks of life—from a West Texas grocer fighting nuclear waste to an Austin lobbyist pressing for green energy. To find and preserve these stories of courage and perseverance, the Conservation History Association of Texas launched the Texas Legacy Project in 1998, traveling thousands of miles to conduct hundreds of interviews with people from all over the state. Each speaks from the heart in personal reminiscences and first-hand accounts of battles fought for land and wildlife, for public health, and for a voice in media and politics. These remarkable oral histories now reside in an incomparable online and physical archive of video, audio, text, and other materials that record these extraordinary efforts by veteran conservationists and ordinary citizens to preserve the natural legacy of Texas. These impassioned accounts remind us of the importance of protecting and conserving the natural resources in our own backyards wherever they may be.The Texas Legac
“No student should graduate from a Texas High School without reading this book or even memorizing it.”—Bill Moyers, host, Bill Moyers Journal
Great stories told by citizens who cared and dared mollycoxe The title of this book may be drier than the west Texas desert, but the contents are juicier than a rib eye (substitute grapefruit, if you're a vegetarian). Open to a random page, as I've been doing every morning this week at breakfast, and you'll find a first person narrative by a remarkable, and often quite colorful, human being. There's the game warden who used to be outlaw hunter, an unorthodox environmental lawyer who won a suit against Champion Paper in the 1970's resulting in a penalty that was, at the time, larger than all of the penalties under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act in the whole history of the state of Te