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The Blanco River (River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University)

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For eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They’ve explored its history, people, flora and fauna, and the natural beauty that surprises everyone who experiences this river.

Described as “the defining element in one of the most Hill Country’s most beautiful scenery,” the Blanco flows both above and below ground, a part of a network of rivers and aquifers that sustains the region’s flora and fauna and millions of humans alike. Alternatively, overpumping and prolonged drought have combined to weaken the Blanco’s go with the flow and sustenance, and in 2000—for the first time in recorded history—the river’s most significant feeder spring, Jacob’s Well, briefly ceased to go with the flow. It stopped again in 2008. Then, in the spring of 2015, a devastating flood killed twelve people and toppled the huge cypress trees along its banks, altering not just the look of the river, but the communities that had come to depend on its serene presence.

River travelers Ferguson and Botter tell the remarkable story of this changeable river, confronting challenges and dangers in addition to rare opportunities to see parts of the river few have seen. The authors also photographed and recorded the human response to the destruction of a beloved natural resource that has develop into yet some other episode in the story of water in Texas.

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