Environmental Policy Graduate Seminar
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EVS
6937
Online Course
WH129
Graduate
Seminar in Environmental Policy
Session 13
Water and the Brazos River
Class Topics:
- The historical, economic and environmental importance of the Brazos River
- Contemporaty threats to Brazos River water quality.
Readings:
Edward T. Wimberley's Homegrown Ecopragmatics. Chapters 6-7
Homework Assignment:
- Briefly describe the salient environmental, demographic and environmental charchteristics of the Brazos River from its headwaters to its entry into the Gulf of Mexico.
- Why is water salinity such an issue throughout the Brazos watershed?
- What are the most significant threats to the Brazos River as it approaches the Gulf of Mexico/
- Describe the principal stakeholders in the Friends of the Brazos case study.
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