February 19th, 2010 | TAP In The News
The Aransas Project (TAP), a non-profit organization, aims to follow through with filing a lawsuit against the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) next month, according to TAP attorney Jim Blackburn. A notice of intent to sue on behalf of the highly endangered whooping cranes …Read more »
Filed in: Coastal Ecosystems, Guadalupe Basin Water Management, TAP Progress, Whooping Cranes
February 11th, 2010 | TAP In The News
Ronald B. Outen, Ph.D, the regional director of the Aransas Project, made a presentation to the Rockport City Council during its Jan. 26 monthly workshop regarding the work and goals of the organization. Read more »
Filed in: Coastal Ecosystems, Guadalupe Basin Water Management, TAP Progress, Whooping Cranes
February 11th, 2010 | Related Press
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field supervisor Allan Strand was interviewed by CBC radio show Edmonton AM, whose listeners live close to the Aransas flock’s nesting grounds, Wood Buffalo. Allan Strand expressed great concern over the future of the cranes and the dwindling options left …Read more »
Filed in: Coastal Ecosystems, Whooping Cranes
February 11th, 2010 | TAP Updates
TAP is pleased to announce that the Rockport Chamber of Commerce has issued a resolution of support for The Aransas Project. Citing the Chamber’s great concern for the economic vitality dependent on freshwater inflows into the bay, the Chamber released a resolution endorsing the objectives …Read more »
Filed in: TAP Progress
CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER-TIMES
This winter will be a hard one for the whooping crane, one of the most endangered species in the world. The last remaining natural flock of the rare birds took a devastating loss last year at its wintering grounds at the Aransas Natural Wildlife Refuge. …Read more »
Filed in: Coastal Ecosystems, Guadalupe Basin Water Management, Whooping Cranes
February 4th, 2010 | Related Press
A whooping crane die-off prediction prompted action from a Texas environment advocacy group Monday. Read more »
Filed in: Coastal Ecosystems, Guadalupe Basin Water Management, Whooping Cranes
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN
The Lower Colorado River Authority scored a major victory over the San Antonio Water System on Monday when a Travis County district judge threw out a lawsuit against the river authority. Read more »
Filed in: Guadalupe Basin Water Management
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN
As soon as we clear the launch site, Chuck Naiser points the Hell’s Bay skiff to the southeast on a bearing that will take us across the mouth of Saint Charles Bay, past the southernmost tip of Blackjack Peninsula and into the Intracoastal waterway west …Read more »
Filed in: Coastal Ecosystems, Whooping Cranes
February 3rd, 2010 | Related Press
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field supervisor Allan Strand is understated when he observes that there are some “difficult decisions” ahead when it comes to sharing the region’s water. Read more »
Filed in: Coastal Ecosystems, Guadalupe Basin Water Management, TAP Progress, Whooping Cranes
