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Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained A Forge Book: Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC in 1999 This is Charlie Flagg’s story – a decent, honorable, small-time Texas rancher caught in the unrelenting grip of the 1950s seven-year drought. Charlie’s struggle with the lack of rain subtly stresses the other pressures brought to . . . → Read More: Elmer Kelton’s The Time It Never Rained Elmer Kelton’s Barbed Wire A Forge Book: Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC in 2006 Original Publication: 1957 by Ballantine Books As with most of Elmer Kelton’s novels, Barbed Wire is not a “shoot ‘em up” western in the true sense of the word. Rather, it is a story about flesh-and-blood characters . . . → Read More: Elmer Kelton’s Barbed Wire Instructional officer for Social Studies, K-12 KISD Pat has shared her considerable knowledge and experience in helping to develop the TEXAS WATER curriculum and has been instrumental in extending our water conservation educational programs to Social Studies classrooms. Her achievements are impressive: Texas Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year, 1998 1999 inductee for . . . → Read More: Pat Braunagle, Educator of the Month…June 2010 After a distinguished career in oil and gas, Hugh Wynn authored several historical fiction novels, including West of the Cross Timbers, a frontier/western which recounts the tragic demise of an indigenous way of life in North Texas. Today, he is CFO of Water Lily Press, Inc., a Houston-based company that specializes in water conservation education program development and publishing. Wynn narrates the Texas Rivers DVD presentation featured in the curriculum, TEXAS WATER – Origins and Destinations, created by Water Lily Press, Inc. The TEXAS WATER curriculum provides hands-on instructional projects for Science and Social Studies classes in grades 3-6. . . . → Read More: Meet Hugh Wynn…
Joint Turf Grass Irrigation Research at Texas A&M Last August, a group of water industry leaders – along with licensed irrigators; irrigation equipment manufacturers and distributors; Texas AgriLife Extension Service Agents; state and national water conservation experts; Texas A&M Turfgrass Specialists; Extension Master Gardener Volunteers; MUD officers; engineers and operators – . . . → Read More: SaveWaterTexas.com Partners with Joint Turf Grass Irrigation Research at Texas A&M The San Jacinto River Authority (SJRA), the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District (LSGCD), and SaveWaterTexas.com have recently announced that they are joining forces to launch a water conservation education program for students in Montgomery County. As their initial role in the partnership, the LSGCD is creating a new Mobile Teaching Lab that . . . → Read More: TEXAS WATER Education Program with SJRA and LSGCD Harris County WCID 132’s conservation efforts have received international attention and will play a role in creating the nation’s first-ever voluntary rating system for “green” landscape design. The proposed rating system – the missing link in green design — is the work of the Sustainable Sites Initiative™, a partnership of the American Society of . . . → Read More: CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER!! |
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