Below is information geared for adults because of it’s training intention of content and the expansive amount of content. If you like to read, have the time, and want to know more, do definitely download these links to read or review at your leisure. Enjoy:
Texas Waters: Exploring Water and Watersheds
What is a watershed? It is an area of land that water flows, across, through or under on its way to a stream, lake, ocean or other body of water. We find watersheds everywhere. All land area is part of a watershed.
Here is Lavaca County’s watershed which is in Texas Flood planning Region 10, newly formed to help with flood planning and improvements — their promise is to seek improvements without hurting others in the process.
Overview of Watershed Functions and Features by TAMU Wildlife and Fisheries Extension.
Remarkable Riparian is an excellent resource about Texas plants. Download this very informative pdf to read provided by Nueces River Authority. Be sure to see Steve Nelle’s notes. Steve Nelle is a retired NRSC employee and he has studied the Lavaca River in Hallettsville first hand and he is a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department icon– the most often seen, very rememberable , and well-liked representative seen in educational and instructional videos on rivers.
One of the things we noticed when searching for informative videos and handouts is that there isn’t a lot of information on the Lavaca River in educational videos or informative public books, as the tendency is to showcase scenes from polar bears, whales to the wetlands – focusing on areas of high pollution and only areas with lost species — yet not so much showing what we see in the prairies and/or focusing on the need to appreciate and care for where we visit, work and live. The result from the lack of funding for exposure of what we need to be thinking about — the dollars tends to go to areas outside of our own – because places-did-in-fact-damage-their-cities’— so after the fact of sighting pollution, money is then spent and seen as important.
Of course, there are video recordings of conferences, and meetings, and technical programs.
There isn’t enough abbreviated information for the public to learn in short segments of time – for those that are both interested in environment and too — have full-time jobs and/or those with multiple responsibilities. For this reason, we need the funding to repackage information with an art. Hallet Oak Foundation is willing to do their part, to make donations, write checks to Hallet Oak Foundation, P.O. Box 662, Hallettsville, TX 77964 or online.
Hallettsville is a small rural community with the most untouched land surrounding it – privately owned. A rural community needs to be the eyes, the voice for preventative pollution for our wildlife’s benefit and for human health benefit. And we can’t know what to do unless we make the effort to learn more about what we have and learn how to take care of it. From our talking to community, we have found many residents are taking steps for improvement and we hope to hear more from them and hear their personal stories more often. If you have a success story, send us an email to venue@halletoakgallery.com