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THE NEWSLETTER OF THE SIERRA CLUB, LONE STAR CHAPTER 

Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3, Fall 2002 

Photo courtesy of Justin Murrill 

Citizens rally to oppose Marvin Nichols Reservoir - page 3 

Regional Water Conferences Set for Fall - page 5

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The Newsletter of the Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter 

Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3, Fall 2002 

The Lone Star Sierran will be published quarterly. Tentative publication 

dates for 2002 are March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1. 

Submission deadlines are 4 weeks prior to publication. 

Feature 

3 Citizens Rally to Oppose the Proposed 

Marvin Nichols Reservoir 

5 Water for People and the Environment 

Your Environment 

6 Padre Island Gas Drilling Debate Flares Up Again - 

Turtles At Risk 

8 Texas Water Sentinels Campaign Continues Efforts to 

Protect the Leon River Watershed 

10 Lone Star Chapter Working to Reduce Air Pollution 

11 Conservation of Texas Land and Water Resources 

Highlighted at Chapter Conference 

13 Texas Parks & Wildlife Release Land & Water 

Conservation Plan 

15 New Economic Study Places Value of Recreation & 

Restoration on Texas National Forests Above 

Commercial Logging 

Environmental Education 

16 Sierra Cubs Camp Expands Throughout Texas 

State of the Sierra Club 

18 Intern Justin Murrill Lends His Enthusiasm to the Work of 

the Lone Star Chapter 

19 Lone Star Chapter Presents Awards for 2001 

at Dinner in Houston 

20 Get a Commanding View of Austin, the Texas Legislature 

& Upcoming Environmental Legislation 

21 Join Us October 19 & 20 for Sierra Celebration 2002 

General 

22 Lone Star Chapter Directory 

23 Regional Group Volunteer Leadership Directory 

24 Lone Star Chapter Calendar 2002

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Feature 

Citizens Rally to Oppose 

the Proposed Marvin Nichols Reservoir 

Diverse Coalition Pushes Conservation over Development 

By Ken Kramer, Director, Lone Star Chapter 

“Meet the faces of a new coalition,” 

said Rita Beving, conservation 

co-chair of the Dallas Regional 

Group of the Sierra Club, as 

she stood and spoke on July 22 to 

a rally of 150 people from North 

Central and Northeast Texas 

united to show their opposition to 

the proposed Marvin 

Nichols Reservoir. 

“They are loggers, 

farmers, ranchers, 

and private landowners…from 

Dalby 

Springs to Dallas, 

from Denton to 

Texarkana…in all 

my years as an 

activist I have 

never seen such 

dedication from a 

group united for a 

single cause,” added 

Beving. 

Indeed it was an 

impressive sight. 

Over 50 people had 

come by bus from 

Northeast Texas to Grand Prairie 

to join with 100 citizens from the 

Metroplex to attend a meeting of 

the Region C Water Planning 

Group, the water planning group 

for the region that includes the 

Dallas/Forth Worth metropolitan 

area. These somewhat unlikely 

allies were there to promote water 

conservation over water development, 

to argue for saving the 

taxpayers’ money as well as saving 

water. 

The Proposed Reservoir 

The immediate target of their 

passion was the proposed Marvin 

Nichols Reservoir. The reservoir, 

which is included in the current 

regional water plans for both 

Regions C and D, would be located 

in Region D (Northeast Texas) in 

the Sulphur River Basin. 

Although the reservoir is proposed 

to be located in Northeast Texas, 

80 percent of the water from the 

reservoir would be transferred by 

Citizens opposing the Marvin Nichols Reservoir vow “No Nickles for Nichols.” 

pipeline to the Dallas/Fort Worth 

region. Water customers in that 

region would be the ones primarily 

responsible for the $1.7 billion 

price tag for the project. 

The proposed reservoir project 

would be a large one by any standard. 

It would inundate about 

72,000 acres of forests, ranchland, 

and farmland along the Sulphur 

River in Red River, Bowie, 

Franklin, Titus, and Morris counties. 

The reservoir would yield 

619,100 acre feet of water per 

year. (An acre foot of water is the 

amount of water needed to flood 

one acre of land to a depth of one 

foot – it is equivalent to approximately 

325,000 gallons of water). 

The water from the reservoir 

going to the Dallas/Fort Worth 

region would travel in a pipeline 

about 170 miles long. 

The project would be built and 

managed by the Sulphur Basin 

River Authority (SBRA), a regional 

water authority created by the 

Texas Legislature 

in 1985. SBRA 

has the authority 

to control, store, 

conserve, and 

distribute surface 

water in the 

Sulphur River 

basin consistent 

with surface 

water rights 

granted by the 

State of Texas to 

varied water 

users in the 

basin. SBRA has 

contracted with 

two Texas engineering 

firms for 

studies of the 

feasibility of the reservoir. 

In its regional water plan, 

however, the Region D Water 

Planning Group did not identify 

any unmet water needs in its own 

region within the next 50 years. 

Thus, water from the Marvin 

Nichols Reservoir would primarily 

benefit only Region C for the 

foreseeable future, although some 

of the water in the reservoir would 

be available for Northeast Texas in 

the distant future. 

Photo courtesy of Justin Murrill 

The Opposition 

The citizens from Northeast 

Texas who oppose the reservoir do 

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not see that future water supply or jobs associated 

with construction of the reservoir as providing any 

benefit to them, at least no benefit that outweighs 

the negative impacts on their communities and way 

of life. Among their primary concerns, of course, is 

the loss of their homes, their farms, their ranches, 

their forests, their traditional livelihood, and their 

cultural heritage as the reservoir drowns their land. 

Flooding of this land could cost the region in excess of 

$140 million annually due to loss of timber and 

agricultural production. Local opponents of the 

reservoir concerned about the economic and social 

impacts of the proposed project are organized as the 

Sulphur Oversight Society (SOS). 

These local landowners and other Northeast Texas 

citizens have joined forces with environmental 

groups such as the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra 

Club and regional Sierra Club groups in North Texas, 

the National Wildlife Federation, and the Texas 

Committee on Natural Resources. Environmentalists 

oppose the Marvin Nichols Reservoir for a variety 

of reasons. One of the major reasons is the potential 

loss of bottomland hardwood forests. Over 36,000 

acres of such forests would be flooded and thus lost as 

a result of building the reservoir. The U. S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service considers bottomland hardwood 

forests as one of the most endangered ecosystems in 

the Southeastern United States. 

Waste of Water in the Dallas/Fort Worth 

Region 

Another reason for the opposition to the Marvin 

Nichols Reservoir from both environmentalists and 

Northeast Texas landowners is that the Dallas/Fort 

Worth region does not truly need the water from the 

proposed impoundment. Dallas and other cities in 

the region have been shown to use an incredible 

amount of water per capita, far more than most other 

large cities in Texas. 

Although estimates vary, Dallas, for example, uses 

in the vicinity of 250 gallons of water per person per 

day. That compares to approximately 146 gallons of 

water per person per day in San Antonio, a city that 

has made great strides over the past decade in 

trimming water consumption by its residents 

through a variety of measures. The Region C water 

plan predicted that the per capita water use in Dallas 

would actually increase over the next 50 years to a 

level of 264 gallons per capita per day – one of the few 

areas in the state where per capita use for expected 

to go up. 

By one analysis done by the National Wildlife 

Federation, if Dallas Water Utilities (the city’s water 

department) were to decrease its per capita water 

consumption by 2050 to just 200 gallons per day, that 

alone would provide the city with almost twice as 

A broad coalition of people attended the Region C water 

planning group meeting in July to promote water conservation 

as an alternative to the Marvin Nichols Reservoir. 

much water as it would gain from its share of the 

Marvin Nichols Reservoir project. Yet, despite the 

cost effectiveness of saving water rather than paying 

for an expensive new impoundment and pipeline, the 

City of Dallas and its North Central Texas neighbors 

have done little thus far to conserve water. 

Opponents of the reservoir see no reason for the 

building of a vast new impoundment of water in 

Northeast Texas to feed the unquenchable thirst of a 

neighboring region unwilling to curb its profligate 

use of water. There is no justification, they say, for 

a project that would have such a devastating impact 

on the environment and way of life of Northeast 

Texas just to water St. Augustine grass lawns in 

Dallas, Fort Worth, and their suburbs. 

Moving Forward 

The united opposition to the reservoir is beginning 

to make a difference. Local elected officials who 

have been sitting on the fence or speaking positively 

about the project are starting to express their opposition. 

Media coverage is building. Members of the 

Region C Water Planning Group have shown a willingness 

to take a closer look at their plan’s reliance 

on the proposed reservoir. Opposition to the reservoir 

on the Region D Water Planning Group has 

grown. The effort to defeat the reservoir is far from 

over, but the grassroots opposition is making its 

power felt. 

Photo courtesy of Justin Murrill


Water for People and the Environment 

Second Round of Regional Water Conferences Set for the Fall 

How do we get the water we need at a price we can afford How do we get serious about water 

conservation How much water is being wasted through leaks in our water lines How does water 

conservation protect fish and wildlife 

Are we overbuilding water projects to respond to droughts Is water reuse the answer to our problem 

or does it cause problems Is desalination the way to meet future water needs What are the 

energy and environmental costs of desal 

What are the current and emerging conflicts over water supplies What’s the latest on regional 

and state water planning 

Answers 

If you want the answers to these questions, plan to attend one or more of the following four regional 

water conferences to be conducted by the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club this fall: 

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Houston (Southeast TX Region) 

September 28, 2002 

University Hilton – UH Main Campus 

Dallas (North TX Region) 

October 5, 2002 

Downtown Public Library 

San Marcos (South Central TX) 


Southwest Texas State University 

Mercedes (South TX Region) 


Biblioteca Las Americas 

The conferences are sponsored by the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Clubin partnership with 

Environmental Defense, National Wildlife Federation, Texas Center for Policy Studies, Texas Committee 

on Natural Resources, & other organizations. Support for the conferences has been provided 

by The Houston Endowment, Inc.; The Meadows Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; and The 

Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation as part of the Texas Living Waters Project. 

Last year’s conferences were a resounding success with approximately 400 people attending one or 

more of the conferences. This year’s round of conferences should prove to be equally informative and 

motivating. Cost of the conference (including lunch and materials is only $15 per person. A registration 

form accompanies this announcement. 

For more information check out: www.texas.sierraclub.org or contact the Lone Star Chapter office 

at 512-477-1729 or lonestar.chapter @sierraclub.org. 

“WATER FOR PEOPLE & THE ENVIRONMENT” 

Regional Conferences on the Water Future of Texas Registration Form: 

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Address________________________________ 

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Phone (including Area Code)_______________ 

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Please register ____ person(s) for the following 

regional conference(s). 

____ Houston – September 28 (reg. deadline: Sept. 24) 

____ Dallas - October 5 (reg. deadline: Oct. 1) 

____ San Marcos - October 12 (reg. deadline Oct. 8) 

____ Mercedes - October 26 (reg. deadline Oct. 22) 

I/we (specify number: _____) prefer a vegetarian lunch. 

Enclosed is a check for $_____ 

($15 per person per conference). 

Make check payable to “Lone Star Chapter, 

Sierra Club.” 

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Return form & payment to: 

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ATTN: Regional Water Conferences 

P. O. Box 1931 

Austin, TX 78767



Padre Island Gas Drilling Debate 

Flares Up Again - Turtles At Risk 

Park Resumes Approval Process for 2 nd Drilling Operation 

by Erin Rogers, Grassroots Outreach Coordinator, Lone Star Chapter 

Padre Island National Seashore 

is back at it again. 

The park has issued another 

review of a proposal by BNP Petroleum, 

Inc. of Corpus Christi to drill 

a gas well at the “Lemon/Lemon 

Seed” location in the dunes of the 

national seashore. 

The park approved a first well in 

February (Dunn-Murdock #1), 

which gave BNP the green light to 

bulldoze fragile dunes in a popular 

area of the park and drive dozens 

of 18-wheeler trucks up and down 

the beach each day in order to 

support the operation. Not surprisingly, 

the drilling ran over schedule 

and right into the height of the 

Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nesting 

season. Park managers allowed 

the drilling to continue unabated, 

despite the fact that the permit 

granted to BNP had no contingency 

plans for protecting the highly 

endangered Kemp’s ridley from the 

truck traffic. 

In response, the Sierra Club 

filed suit against Secretary of the 

Interior Gale Norton and the Park 

Service for failure to perform an 

adequate review of potential 

threats to the turtles, as required 

by the National Environmental 

Policy Act and the Endangered 

Species Act. 

Second Drilling Permit 

Meanwhile, the Park Service 

was busy issuing another environmental 

assessment for a second 

drilling permit (Lemon/Lemon 

Seed) desired by BNP. When the 

park issued that review, over a 

thousand Sierra Club members 

responded with emails, faxes and 

letters urging the park to reject 

BNP’s application for a drilling 

permit, much less an operation 

that would occur during the height 

of the summer visitation and 

turtle nesting season. 

In May the Sierra Club’s legal 

team met with park managers and 

representatives from BNP in an 

attempt to address the issues 

raised in the Club’s legal complaint 

and in comments on the 

Lemon/Lemon Seed environmental 

assessment. While the discussions 

ended without any agreements 

being reached, the Sierra 

team made a strong case to park 

managers that even if the drilling 

is allowed to proceed, no operations 

should be permitted during 

the summer months when nesting 

turtles and high numbers of 

visitors would be forced to share 

the beach with heavy trucks. 

Sadly, park managers have 

rejected this accommodation. In 

the amended environmental 

review for the Lemon/Lemon Seed 

well the park staff has gone to 

Kemp’s Ridley Courtesy of Doug Perrine 

lengths to coat the proposal in a 

lawsuit-proof teflon, but they have 

done nothing to ensure greater 

protection for the turtles or for the 

visitor experience. In fact, the 

park concludes in the revised 

assessment that a restriction on 

drilling to the winter months has 

been ruled out as a possibility 

because that option would compound 

the impact of drilling operations 

on wintering piping plovers, 

an endangered bird. 

The park’s argument is incredible, 

given that the EA for Dunn- 

Murdock, as well as the original 

EA for Lemon/Lemon Seed, both 

dismissed the need for any consideration 

to be given to the possible 

impact of the drilling on the 

plovers. The EAs asserted that 

BNP’s operations would be nowhere 

near plover habitat (in the 

winter plovers feed along the mud 

flat shores of the Laguna Madre). 

Sadly, the park seems to be most 

concerned about the threat to 

endangered species when it is



convenient for BNP. When the presence of an endangered 

species isn’t convenient for BNP, the park finds 

it all too easy to gloss over the need to conduct further 

analysis, gather data, or take any of the other 

cautionary steps required by the National Environmental 

Protection Act. In its handling of BNP’s drilling 

campaign, the over-riding concern of the 

seashore’s management team seems to be avoiding 

any possible ire from Secretary Norton and the clique 

of oil industry supplicants running the Interior 

Department. 

Thanks to strong grassroots pressure and invaluable 

help from the Club’s legal staff, we succeeded in 

forcing NPS to re-evaluate its EA for Lemon/Lemon 

Seed, and that has kept BNP’s 18 wheelers at bay 

since June. But BNP has deep pockets and an army 

of hired gun attorneys, and it will take even greater 

efforts by the Sierra Club and others to fight off the 

next round of drilling. The stakes are high: thanks to 

a seasonal closure of the Gulf shrimp fishery, Kemp’s 

ridleys nested along the Texas coast in greatly 

improved numbers this year. But just as the turtle 

population seems invigorated, we are faced with the 

prospect of BNP plowing their heavy trucks through 

turtle nesting grounds for the next fifteen years! 

Radioactive Drilling Tool 

On a related note, the Sierra Club uncovered the 

fact that in February of this year BNP abandoned a 

highly radioactive drilling tool that became stuck in 

one of its wells just outside Padre Island National 

Seashore. The material in the tool will remain 

radioactive for 4,000 years. 

This latest discovery underscores the shoddy 

environmental record of BNP. The company was 

cited previously by state regulators for irresponsible 

management of oil waste pits in the Lower Rio 

Grande Valley. 

Drilling in National Parks 

As matter of principle, the Sierra Club believes 

that drilling for oil and gas is fundamentally incompatible 

with the purposes of national parks, which 

were created for public enjoyment and protection for 

future generations. Oil and gas drilling defeats both 

purposes. That sad contradiction appears to be lost 

on the Bush administration, however, which seems 

to have no comprehension of what national parks 

mean to the vast majority of Americans who cherish 

them as pristine examples of our natural heritage 

and havens for recreation. 

In May the Bush Administration agreed to buy out 

privately-held oil and gas holdings below Big Cypress 

National Preserve in Florida. While many agree that 

the buyout was a politically motivated to boost Governor 

Jeb Bush’s re-election effort, Texans have every 

right to expect that the Bush Administration should 

offer the same degree of protection to Padre Island 

National Seashore. In pursuit of that end, the Lone 

Star Chapter is calling on state and federal officials 

to examine the cost of buying out the mineral rights 

beneath the seashore, which would put an end once 

and for all to drilling on the crown jewel of Texas 

beaches. 

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being made that affect air, water, wildlife, parks, and open spaces in Texas.



Texas Water Sentinels Campaign 

Continues Efforts to Protect the Leon 

River Watershed 

Central Texas Sierrans Get 

First Hand Look at CAFO 

Operations 

By Justin Taylor, Water Quality Project 

Coordinator, Lone Star Chapter 

The Texas Water Sentinels Campaign, 

a project of the Lone Star Chapter 

funded by a national Sierra Club grant, 

continued its efforts this summer to 

address water pollution from large-scale 

industrial dairy farms in Central Texas. 

The Water Sentinels Campaign is 

conducting ongoing water quality sampling, 

opposing permits for new and 

expanding dairy CAFOs (confined animal 

feeding operations), and working with 

regional Sierra Club members and other 

citizens to educate and inform them 

about the dairy industry in this region. 

The rapid expansion of dairy CAFOs in Central Texas 

has contributed to the impairment of water quality in 

the Bosque and Leon River watersheds, and threatens 

the drinking water supplies of Lake Waco and 

Lake Belton. 

Wildcat Dairy Permit Expansion 

Approved 

On June 21 the Texas Natural Resource Conservation 

Commission (TNRCC) officially denied the seven 

motions to overturn the state permit for expansion of 

the Wildcat Dairy from 990 to 4000 head of dairy 

cattle. [See the Summer 2002 issue of the Lone Star 

Sierran for details about the expansion of the dairy 

and the concerns about the impact on water quality 

in the Leon River watershed.] Adjacent landowners, 

the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club, the National 

Wildlife Federation, the Bell County Health 

District, and the cities of Temple, Belton, and Killeen 

filed the motions in April. 

The motions were filed out of concern that the 

dairy expansion would further degrade the already 

impaired Leon River and potentially threaten Lake 

Belton, an impoundment on the Leon River that 

serves as the drinking water supply for the three 

Justin Taylor talks with Central Texas Sierrans about dairy waste 

issues at a stop to view the Frank Brand Dairy. 

cities noted above. Contaminated runoff from dairy 

CAFOs, a factor of the tremendous volumes of waste 

produced by hundreds or thousands of dairy cows, 

produces elevated levels of nutrients and pathogens 

and depresses oxygen levels in streams. 

The Commission, composed of three Commissioners 

appointed by the Governor, acted upon the recommendations 

of the TNRCC Executive Director. They 

issued the standard response to the concerns raised 

in the motions by the adjacent landowners, local 

governments, and environmental groups — that the 

dairy expansion is not a new source of pollution (and, 

therefore, does not require a higher level of regulation). 

The Commissioners let the time to respond to 

these motions expire, overruling them by an “operation 

of law.” Although the decision by the Commissioners 

was not surprising, their unwillingness to 

work with the variety of affected stakeholders in this 

case was more evidence of the failure of TNRCC to 

exercise strong regulatory oversight of the dairy 

industry in Central Texas. 

The final recourse to try and stop the expansion of 

the Wildcat Dairy is a lawsuit in state district court. 

The landowners have already filed to sue the Executive 

Director and the Commission for issuance of the 

Photo courtesy of Ken Kramer

in the suit on their behalf. As 

of this writing, the other entities 

who filed motions to overturn 

Executive Director’s initial decision 

to approve the expansion 

have not decided whether to join 

in the litigation. The case should 

go to court some time late this 

year. A victory in this case would 

set an important precedent affecting 

the fate of future permits for 

CAFO expansions in the Leon 

River watershed, which is currently 

seeing an explosion of 

requests for new and expanded 

dairies. 

Central TX Sierrans Tour 

Dairy Locations 

On July 13 members of the 

Central Texas Regional Group of 

the Sierra Club took a tour of dairy 

locations in the Leon River watershed. 

Lone Star Chapter Director 

Ken Kramer and I drove the 

members to an area with a high 

concentration of dairy CAFOs, 

stopping by several facilities to 

give the group a first-hand look at 

the facilities. Many of the tour 

group participants were surprised 

Photo courtesy of Ken Kramer 

at the size and density of these 

dairy facilities and their environmentally 

destructive potential. It 

was a good introduction to the 

actual state of the dairy industry 

in this area for those who had 

never seen it. 

A graphic demonstration of the 

pollution potential of the dairies 

was a dead cow in a creek bed by 

the side of one of the county roads 

the tour group traveled. The dead 

cow had probably been dumped 

upstream, and the body had 

washed down to its final resting 

place. The dead cow was sighted 

at practically the same spot where 

the bones from another dead cow 

that had been seen on an earlier 

visit were located. 

Central Texas Sierrans had an 

opportunity during the tour to visit 

at the home of Carolyn and Paul 

Smith, some of the adjacent 

landowners in Comanche County 

who are opposing the expansion of 

the Wildcat Dairy. Carolyn Smith 

has lived in this area outside 

Gustine, Texas all of her life. As a 

girl she swam in South Leon River 

(which feeds into the Leon River) 

and her son grew up fishing in the 

Central Texas Sierrans and Justin Taylor visit with Carolyn and Paul Smith, 

adjacent landowners apposing the expansion of the Wildcat Dairy. 



same spot. Now she says that 

her cows will not even drink 

that water, much less does any 

human go into the water, 

which is the repository of runoff 

from the Wildcat Dairy. 

More Water Sentinels 

Campaign Activities 

The Water Sentinels Campaign 

is continuing to work 

with landowners, concerned 

citizens, and cities downstream 

of these dairies to keep them 

educated and informed of new 

developments and assist with 

opposing new permits as applications 

are filed with the state 

environmental regulatory 

agency (as of September 1 the 

TNRCC officially became the 

Texas Commission on Environmental 

Quality or TCEQ). On 

August 10 the project held a 

volunteer monitoring training 

program, where volunteers 

were trained to sample and 

analyze water quality from the 

Leon River and Lake Belton. 

In addition to activities in 

the Leon River watershed the 

Water Sentinels Campaign 

is also working with 

volunteers, area teachers 

and students, and the City 

of Waco in addressing 

concerns about dairy 

CAFO pollution in the 

Bosque River watershed. 

Lake Waco, an impoundment 

on the Bosque 

River, is the drinking 

water supply for the City 

of Waco, which has been 

an active leader in efforts 

to curb dairy CAFO 

pollution. 

For more information 

on the Water Sentinels 

Campaign, contact Justin 

Taylor at the Sierra Club 

State Conservation office 

in Austin at 512-477-1729 

or via email at 

justin.taylor@sierraclub.org.



On the Air Front 

Lone Star Chapter Working to Reduce 

Air Pollution 

Many parts of Texas continue to 

be plagued by air pollution problems, 

and the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) has 

recently questioned the efficacy of 

state air quality clean-up plans for 

two major metropolitan areas, in 

part due to lack of a viable source 

of funds for making air quality 

improvements. The Lone Star 

Chapter of the Sierra Club, however, 

continues to make the 

reduction of air pollution in Texas 

a high priority, and the past few 

months have seen a flurry of 

activity related to that goal. 

Clean Air Director Neil Carman 

and several volunteer leaders, 

including Chapter Air Quality 

Chair George Smith of Houston, 

are conducting those efforts. To 

assure the most and efficient use 

of resources the Chapter is working 

closely with Sierra Club 

regional groups in affected areas 

as well as with community activists 

and other environmental 

organizations. Environmental 

partners in this work include 

Environmental Defense, the 

Galveston-Houston Association for 

Smog Prevention (GHASP), Public 

Citizen, and Sustainable Energy & 

Economic Development (SEED) 

Coalition, and Texas Campaign for 

the Environment. 

Houston-Galveston 

Clean Air Plan 

This summer the Texas Natural 

Resource Conservation Commission 

(TNRCC) has been considering 

significant changes to the air 

quality clean-up plan (known 

officially by the acronym SIP, or 

“State Implementation Plan”) for 

the Houston-Galveston region. 

The Sierra Club and the groups 

noted above, plus others, have 

concerns about those some of 

those changes – especially a 

proposed relaxation of pollution 

controls for the area’s largest 

industrial pollution sources – 

while supporting other changes. 

These groups issued a “2002 

Citizens’ Clean Air Agenda” urging 

the TNRCC to strengthen rather 

than weaken the Houston- 

Galveston clean air plan in order 

to meet federal health standards 

for air quality by the 2007 deadline 

imposed by the federal Clean Air 

Act. The recommendations of the 

Citizens’ Clean Air Agenda 

include: 

(1) support for the state’s proposal 

to set strong pollution 

control limits on highly 

reactive volatile organic 

compounds (VOCs); 

(2) opposition to any rollback of 

controls on industrial point 

sources of nitrogen oxide 

(NOx), a rollback which was 

proposed by TNRCC under 

pressure from industry; 

(3) support for replacing the 55- 

mph speed limit with more 

effective, less inconvenient 

measures; and 

(4) a call for TNRCC to adopt 

specific reduction commitments 

for NOx emissions 

rather than just a description 

of how reductions might 

be calculated. 

In August Clean Air Director 

Carman submitted comments on 

behalf of the Lone Star Chapter on 

proposed TNRCC changes to its 

rules governing VOC emission 

controls in the Houston-Galveston 

clean air plan. The comments 

emphasized the need to improve 

the proposed revisions of the VOC 

control rules because there currently 

is no complete inventory of 

industrial emissions in the Houston 

area to be able to gauge the 

total air pollution problem and 

there has been no demonstration 

that the clean air plan will actually 

meet federal human health 

standards for air quality. 

Working with Citizens 

in Other Areas 

In addition to major efforts on 

the Houston-Galveston air quality 

problems the Chapter this year 

has continued to work with affected 

communities and neighborhoods 

in other areas of the state 

that are impacted by smog and/or 

toxic air pollution. Major emphasis 

has been on helping citizens 

in areas affected by air pollutant 

emissions from refineries and 

chemical plants, especially in the 

Beaumont-Port Arthur area but in 

many other parts of the state as 

well. 

For more information about the 

air quality work of the Lone Star 

Chapter contact Clean Air Director 

Neil Carman in Austin at 512- 

472-2267 

(neil_carman@greenbuilder.com) 

or Air Quality Chair George Smith 

in Houston at 713-862-1669 

(geoterrysmith@att.net).



Conservation of Texas Land and Water 

Resources Highlighted at Chapter 

Conference 

Conference Marks First Anniversary of Wide Open Spaces Campaign 

The Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club celebrated the first anniversary of the Wide Open 

Spaces Campaign with a well-attended sixth annual Chapter Conservation Conference at the 

Armand Bayou Nature Center in Houston on July 20. This year’s conference, which drew in 

excess of 100 people, focused on the need to increase parkland and to protect open space and 

wildlife habitat in a variety of ways statewide and in East Texas. 

Keynote Presentation – 

Texas at the Crossroads 

The keynote speaker, Texas 

Tech University President Dr. 

David Schmidly, shared historical 

and current information over the 

past century using a time-lapse 

style presentation to 

document the changes 

in Texas population, 

landscape and wildlife 

diversity. Dr. Schmidly’s 

presentation, Texas at 

the Crossroads: A Historical 

Perspective on the 

Biological Diversity of 

Texas, emphasized the 

present critical stage of 

the State’s environmental 

movement. Dr. 

Schmidly compared 

primary data from a 

biological survey conducted 

a century ago by 

Vernon Bailey with 

current data from The 

Texas Parks and Wildlife 

for the 21 st Century report 

prepared by Texas Tech for Texas 

Parks and Wildlife Department 

(TPWD) in 2001. 

Based on this comparison Dr. 

Schmidly identified the most 

important threats facing biological 

diversity in Texas. The threats 

include (1) urban sprawl (the 

migration to and expansion of 

urban areas), (2) lack of ethnic 

diversity in the environmental 

movement, (3) land fragmentation, 

(4) non-native plants and animals, 

(5) loss of valuable terrains (i.e., 

wetlands, hardwood bottom forests, 

prairies) and (6) an increase in 

numbers of rare, endangered, and 

extinct animals in Texas. 

Dr. Schmidly provided some 

guidance on how to address these 

Brian Sybert, Natural Resources Director for the Lone Star 

Chapter and director of this year’s conservation conference,talks 

about the Wide Open Spaces Campaign. 

threats through what he termed 

“The Ten Commandments of 

Conservation.” These include 

finding a common ground, developing 

an adequate information base, 

recognizing the changing nature 

of the clientele, avoiding single 

species approaches to conservation, 

and focusing on sustainable 

resources and ecosytem management. 

The other “commandments” 

include strengthening 

scientific research, making 

conservation education a priority 

for the public, increasing participation 

of private landowners, 

expanding protected area acquisition 

and management, and promoting 

regionally-based conservation 

planning. 

State Land and 

Water Plan 

Dr. Schmidly’s presentation 

was followed by an 

overview of the Texas 

Parks & Wildlife 

Department’s statewide 

Land and Water Conservation 

and Recreation Plan 

by Jeff Francell and Emily 

Armitano. Francell is the 

Land Acquisition Director 

for TPWD and Armitano is 

a Policy Analyst for TPWD. 

Francell discussed how 

this plan was different 

from the Texas Tech study 

presented by Dr. Schmidly 

and the recommendations of the 

Governor Bush’s Task Force on 

Conservation. According to 

Francell this plan is different 

because it is actually being created 

by TPWD staff and will be 

adopted by the Texas Parks and 

Wildlife Commission, the governing 

body for TPWD. 

The plan was mandated by the 

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Legislature in 2001 with passage 

of SB 305, the bill continuing 

TPWD in existence after the 

sunset review process for the 

agency. The plan includes an 

inventory of all public and nonprofit 

lands that provide public 

access and an analysis of existing 

and future land and water conservation 

needs. The plan also includes 

recommendations on how 

TPWD will address the states land 

and water and recreation needs 

over the next ten years. 

[Editor’s Note: See related article 

in this issue of the Sierran for 

an analysis of the plan.] 

Insights from a State 

Representative 

Rounding out the morning State 

Representative Edmund Kuempel 

gave an enthusiastic speech about 

the importance of citizens communicating 

their interest in 

parks and land conservation to 

their state legislators. Rep. 

Kuempel said that citizens must 

become involved in the process by 

which state government makes 

decisions if they want more 

parkland and protected wildlife 

habitat. Such involvement is 

especially important in light of an 

anticipated shortfall in the state 

budget next year. 

Purchase of 

Development Rights 

Julie Shackelford, Field Director 

for the American Farmland 

Trust, opened the afternoon with a 

presentation on how to reduce the 

loss of open space by preserving 

working landscapes. Shackelford 

noted that Texas leads the nation 

in land conversion from rural to 

urban. 

Purchase of Development Rights 

(PDR) is a tool that can be used to 

protect open space. A small farmer 

can sell his development rights 

(the appraised difference between 

farming value of the land and the 

developed value of the land) to the 

state, a local government, or a 

land trust. Funding options for a 

state PDR program include bonds, 

appropriations, lottery, cigarette 

tax and matching donations. 

Twenty-one states have these PDR 

programs in place, most often 

where local communities have 

taken the initiative, with Pennsylvania 

and Maryland leading as the 

oldest programs. 

Managing Urban Growth 

Comal County Commissioner 

Jay Millikin talked to conference 

attendees about the need to 

manage urban growth as a strategy 

for protecting open space. 

Commissioner Millikin discussed 

the differences between authorities 

that cities and counties have 

for managing such growth. According 

to Commissioner Millikin, 

counties in Texas need more 

ordinance making authority so 

that they may appropriately manage 

urban development. 

Special Places 

The conference concluded with 

presentations on two of the “special 

places” in Texas that the 

Sierra Club and other groups are 

trying to preserve for the future: 

the Trinity River National Wildlife 

Refuge (NWR) and the Katy Prairie. 

Stuart Marcus, Refuge Manager 

for the Trinity River NWR, discussed 

conserving bottomland 

hardwood forest along the lower 

Trinity River. The Trinity River 

NWR was approved for 77,300 

acres. Thus far 4,4000 acres have 

been purchased. Once completed 

the refuge will protect high quality 

bottomland hardwood forest. The 

area contains broad and narrow 

leaf deciduous bottomland hardwood 

forest, which is wetland type 

that has experienced dramatic 

and damaging declines in the past 

decade. By 1980, 63% of all bottomland 

riparian forests in the entire 

Two of the leading 

conservation 

experts in Texas, 

Dr. David 

Schmidly of Texas 

Tech University 

and Dr. Pete 

Gunther of the 

University of 

North Texas, 

discuss land 

preservation 

issues during a 

break at the 

conference. 

state of Texas had been destroyed. 

Mary Anne Piacentini, Executive 

Director of the Katy Prairie 

Conservancy, gave an overview of 

the Katy Prairie. According to 

Piacentini, the Katy Prairie 

provides winter habitat for one of 

the densest concentrations of 

migratory waterfowl in North 

America and habitat for a large 

variety of other birds as well as for 

60 species of mammals (such as 

deer and coyotes), and 55 species 

of reptiles and amphibians. The 

Katy Prairie is continually threatened 

by urban development expanding 

westward from Houston, 

which destroys and degrades the 

ecological viability of the prairie’s 

wildlife habitat. Urban expansion 

and the resulting loss of open 

space significantly decreases 

floodwater protection and water 

quality. Increased incidence of 

flooding on the west side of Houston 

is the result of conversion of 

open space to commercial and 

residential development. 

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Texas Parks & Wildlife Releases 

Land & Water Conservation Plan 

By Brian Sybert, Natural Resources Director, Lone Star Chapter 

Note: In order to be included in this issue of the Lone Star Sierran this article had to be 

written before the Land & Water Conservation Plan was adopted by the Texas Parks & 

Wildlife Commission on August 29. As a result the final recommendations of the plan 

were not known when this article was written. 



In June the Texas Parks and 

Wildlife Department (TPWD) released 

the draft statewide Land & Water 

Conservation Plan. The release of 

the draft initiated a formal public 

comment period on the statewide 

conservation plan. Thanks to the 

hundreds of citizens who commented 

and attended public hearings it is 

likely that the final plan adopted by 

the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, 

the governing board for 

TPWD, will be stronger that the draft. 

Overall the draft plan included 

several important recommendations 

for how TPWD would address Texas’ 

rapidly growing conservation and 

recreation needs. However, the draft 

plan was seriously deficient in 

several areas. 

State Parkland 

In regard to state parkland the 

draft plan recommended that TPWD 

acquire four to six 5,000-acre or 

more state parks or combination 

state parks and wildlife management 

areas near major urban centers 

over the next ten years. While 

this recommendation is a good 

starting point it is not adequate for 

meeting our state’s growing need for 

parkland and habitat conservation. 

In comments submitted to TPWD 

the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra 

Club recommended that TPWD adopt 

the goal of providing 55 acres of 

parkland per 1000 people. At an 

absolute minimum, the Chapter 

suggested that TPWD adopt the goal 

of acquiring 15 new state parks near 

the major urban centers of the state. 

These goals are based upon population 

growth and would allow TPWD to 

take action during the next 10 years 

to meet the state’s growing conservation 

and recreation needs while also 

avoiding placing the state in a 

position of facing unrealistically 

daunting challenges at the end of the 

10-year period. 

Local Parkland 

In regard to local parkland the 

draft plan recommended that TPWD 

continue to support local parkland 

needs through competitive grants to 

local governments. While this is an 

important goal it alone is not sufficient 

for meeting the growing need 

for more local parks. 

The Lone Star Chapter’s comments 

recommended TPWD should 

adopt the goal of working with local 

governments to provide 25 acres of 

local parkland per 1000 people 

through federal and state matchingfunds. 

This goal is also based on 

population growth and will allow 

TPWD and local governments to 

better meet local parkland needs. 

Wildlife Habitat 

To address conservation of wildlife 

habitat the draft plan recommended 

that TPWD increase private lands 

under wildlife management plans to 

14 million acres over the next ten 

years. While wildlife management 

plans are an important tool for 

protecting habitat on private lands 

they do not permanently protect 

lands from development and fragmentation. 

The Lone Star Chapter’s comments 

recommended that to effec- 

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tively conserve habitat on private lands TPWD should 

advocate for a funded statewide private lands conservation 

program. One example of such a program is a 

Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) program. A 

PDR program, being actively promoted in Texas now by 

the American Farmland Trust, would buy development 

rights from willing landowners and compensate them 

for conserving wildlife, water, and open landscapes 

rather than selling family lands for development and 

further fragmentation. 

Water Resources 

In regard to water the draft plan recommended that 

TPWD continue to study the freshwater needs of river 

basins and bays and estuaries and that TPWD remain 

actively engaged in the regional water planning 

process. Though these studies are critical the draft 

plan falls short in recommending how TPWD would 

actually protect freshwater needs for fish, wildlife, and 

recreation. The Lone Star Chapter commented that 

TPWD should set specific goals for acquiring water 

rights and support limits on new water diversions so 

that Texas streams and rivers maintain enough flow 

to help protect water quality and to support recreational 

activities and fish and wildlife. 

Financing Conservation 

One of the most critical issues – how TPWD will 

finance the final recommendations of the plan – was 

left out of the draft plan entirely. Funding options 

such as lifting the cap on revenue generated from the 

sales tax on sporting goods and authorizing the issuance 

of bonds for parkland and wildlife habitat acquisition 

should have been recommended in the plan. 

(Currently a portion of the revenue from the sporting 

goods sales tax is dedicated to spending for state and 

local parks, but that amount is capped at $32 million 

per year, far below the estimated total state revenue 

from that source.) The inclusion of options for funding 

acquisition of parkland and protected wildlife habitat 

would help to guide future debate and action on how to 

finance a state park and land conservation system. 

The Final Plan 

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission was 

scheduled to adopt the final plan on August 29. As of 

August 1, TPWD had already received hundreds of 

comments on the draft plan, most of them advocating 

the type of strengthening of the plan envisioned by 

the Sierra Club. It is hoped that this large volume of 

constructive criticism results in a plan that truly 

meets the needs of Texas and Texans in the 21 st 

century. An update on the outcome of the plan will be 

included in the Winter Issue of the Lone Star Sierran 

and will be available earlier on the Lone Star Chapter 

website at www.texas.sierraclub.org. 

Conservation in Texas... 

Continued from Page 12 

Looking Ahead 

As a follow-up to this successful conference 

and the anticipated adoption of the TPWD Land 

and Water Plan, the next milestone in the Lone 

Star Chapter’s Wide Open Spaces Campaign is 

the publication this fall of a “special places” 

report that will provide a selective look at areas 

in Texas that need to be preserved for current 

and future generations. Check the Lone Star 

Chapter website (www.texas.sierraclub.org) in 

October for the latest information on the special 

places of Texas. 

Public Meetings to be Held on 

Designation of Groundwater 

Management Areas 

The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB), 

the state water planning agency, was directed in 

SB 2, enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2001, to 

designate groundwater management areas covering 

all major and minor aquifers of the state. The 

initial designation is to be completed by September 

1, 2003. According to the statute: “Each groundwater 

management area shall be designated with the 

objective of providing the most suitable area for the 

management of the groundwater resources.” 

Following a stakeholder meeting in May the 

agency has developed a map of Texas with proposed 

groundwater management area boundaries and is 

seeking public input on the proposed designations. 

The map may be accessed through the TWDB web 

site at www.twdb.state.tx.us. The agency has 

scheduled eight public meetings around the state 

and one public meeting in Austin to take public 

input on the proposed designations. Complete 

information on the public meetings may be found 

on the agency web site. The dates and cities 

where meetings will be held is as follows (all are 

scheduled from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.): 

September 5 

Plainview 

September 9 

San Angelo 

September 10 

Alpine 

September 12 

Fredericksburg 

September 18 

Corpus Christi 

September 19 

Wharton 

September 25 

Tyler 

September 26 

Stephenville 

The official public hearing on the proposal will be 

held on September 30 (1 to 5 p.m.) in Austin in 

Room 118 of the Stephen F. Austin Bldg., 1700 N. 

Congress Avenue.

New Economic Study 

Places Value of Recreation 

and Restoration on 

Texas’ National Forests 

Above Commercial Logging 

Report Shows Taxpayer Loss 

from Federal Logging Program 



A new report released in August 

by the Ecology and Law Institute 

(ELI) and the Sierra Club finds 

that the logging program on Texas’ 

national forests lost tens of millions 

of dollars between 1987- 

1999, and may in fact have created 

no new jobs during that time 

period. The National Forests in 

Texas: An Economic Case for Restoring 

Our Natural Treasures, which is 

based on a recent study by ELI, 

looks at the damage, both economic 

and environmental, from 

the commercial logging program 

on Texas’ four national forests and 

debunks the longstanding belief 

that East Texas economies depend 

on commercial logging on national 

forests. 

Some of the best hiking, hunting, 

camping and fishing in Texas 

occurs within our national forests. 

Houston’s clean water found in 

Lake Conroe, Lake Houston and 

Lake Livingston comes from these 

forests. Yet when logging roads are 

built and our national forests are 

spoiled, rain washes topsoil into 

our waterways. 

Revaluating Forest 

Economics 

For years, the U.S. Forest 

Service, using an accounting 

system recently criticized by the 

General Accounting Office (the 

investigative arm of Congress) and 

scrapped, claims that commercial 

logging on Texas’ national forests 

was good for the local economy. 

The new analysis completed by 

independent economists finds that 

the Forest Service in Texas keeps 

many significant costs, like 

prescribed burning and road 

removal, off its books. The Forest 

Service’s inaccurate accounting 

has inflated the value of building 

roads and selling timber from our 

national forests, and has undervalued 

the contribution recreation 

and clean water make to local 

communities, if those values are 

considered at all. 

“When logging roads are abandoned 

on the Sam Houston National 

Forest after an area is 

logged they become an erosion 

problem,,” said Ron Warner of 

Texas Black Bass Unlimited and 

owner of April Plaza Marina on 

Lake Conroe. “National forest land 

should be preserved, but when 

torrential rains wash soil from the 

neglected roads into the lake, the 

lake becomes contaminated with 

pesticides and oil, gas, and grease 

left behind from logging operations. 

My income is definitely 

affected when water quality drops 

and people don’t want to come 

here to fish, swim or ski.” 

Re-examining 

Subsidized Logging 

The report illustrates how, 

between 1988-2000, timber production 

in the state remained 

virtually constant while logging 

levels on national forests plummeted 

during that period. The vast 

majority of timber production in 

the region shifted to private lands. 

“The only reason logging exists on 

Texas’ national forests is because 

taxpayers subsidize it,” said 

Brandt Mannchen, Forestry Chair 

for the Houston Sierra Club. 

“Private woodlot owners can meet 

our timber production needs and 

shouldn’t have to compete with 

low-cost lumber propped up by 

federal subsidies.” 

The report is designed to help 

policy makers, community leaders, 

land managers, and the public 

identify what money is being 

wasted logging Texas’ national 

forests and to understand the 

fiscal responsibility in conserving 

recreation opportunities and clean 

water for future generations of 

Texans to enjoy. Protecting what 

intact forests remain on Texas’ 

national forests and shifting the 

Forest Service’s emphasis from 

timber production to restoration 

and recreation will leave our 

children a natural legacy of which 

we can be proud. 

For More Information 

To view the full report, go to: 

http:// 

www.forestconservation.org/ 

PublicationsandReports/pubs.htm. 

For more information, contact 

John Talberth of Ecology and Law 

Institute, 505-986-1163, or the 

Texas-Arkansas Field Office, 

512-472-9094.



Sierra Cubs Camp Expands 

Throughout Texas 

For the first-time in Texas, 

Sierra Cubs Nature Camps, part 

of the environmental education 

program of the Lone Star Chapter 

of the Sierra Club, were 

offered this summer in both 

Central and East Texas. The 

camp in Austin finished its 

sixth successful year and drew 

in campers from as far away as 

San Antonio. In Nacogdoches, 

the camp was an overwhelming 

success due to the communitywide 

involvement and effort 

from local Sierrans, businesses, 

government agencies, and the 

local university. [See “thank 

you column” for details.] 

Both camps followed a similar 

pattern of guiding youth ages 6 

to 10 years old through instruction, 

EcoArt, and Earth Game 

activities in outdoor safety, 

native plants, wildlife, and 

geology. Sign language symbols 

and Spanish terms were also 

woven into camp curriculum. 

Their settings, however, were 

strikingly different. Austin’s 

campers cooled off under the 

shady arms of 500+ old live oak 

trees, and hiked alongside 

creekbeds in search of fossils. 

Meanwhile, Nacogdoches’ 

campers, discovered a protected, 

fragile ecosystem resplendent 

with wetlands, springs, waterfalls, 

and endangered plants 

right in their town’s backyard. 

Each camp offered youth a 

unique opportunity to explore 

and connect with some of the 

special places in Texas, building 

their sensitivity to their natural 

environment for its future 

protection and preservation. 

For those interested in 

starting a Sierra Cubs Camp in 

their area of the state please 

contact Jackie McFadden, 512- 

990-9396, eeant@austin.rr.com. 

Austin 

Austin Regional Group 

of the Sierra Club 

Annel Bautista 

Ann Bennett 

Melissa Burton 

Debra Cerda 

Debbie Deppe 

Pam Gonzalez 

Ken Kramer 

Lucy Nazro 

Jackie McFadden 

Tim McGee 

Bill Oliver 

Jim Perry 

REI 

St. Andrews Episcopal 

School 

Sally Scott 

Marvin Shelton 

Sophia Sherline 

Hunt Sparra 

Winnie Spitz 

Amy Sugeno 

Texas Mater 

Naturalists, 

Capital Area 

Chapter 

Texas Parks & 

Wildlife Department 

Jennifer Walker 

Whole Foods 

Piney Woods 

Dian Avriett 

Dylan Baggett 

James Baggett 

Tim Baggett 

Vicki Baggett 

Dr. Selena Bradley 

Merry Anne Bright 

Janine Carpenter 

Jacque Cleverdon 

Dr. David Creech 

Richard Donovan 

Thank You 

The Lone Star Chapter 

of the Sierra Club 

extends a huge tree 

hug to the following 

incredibly giving 

individuals, 

businesses, and 

groups who made the 

Sierra Cubs Camps 

2002 a total success. 

Kathy Greer 

Emily Goodwin 

Ruth Heino 

Steve Kahn 

Forest Lemon 

Jim Lemon 

Kerry Lemon 

Maya Lemon 

Mary Love 

Lunch Box (Lufkin) 

Chuck Norman 

Mark Norman 

Pineywoods Regional 

Group of the Sierra 

Club 

Elyce Rodewald 

Susan Schinke 

Larry Shelton 

Stephen F. Austin State 

University 

David Tracey 

Toni Trees 

Adrian Van Dellen

EE BRIEFS 



Statewide EE Conference to be held in 

San Antonio 

The Texas Environmental Education Partnership, 

TEEP, will hold its second statewide environmental education 

conference in San Antonio, TX September 12-14, 

2002. Adults interested 

in being updated on EE 

happenings across the 

state in the past five 

years, needing professional 

training, or simply 

wanting to meet folks in 

the environmental 

education field, are 

invited to attend. To 

receive detailed conference 

information, see 

website http:// 

ww.eih.uh.edu 

Registration Time for 

EE After School Sessions 

The Lone Star Chapter of the 

Sierra Club offers the Nature 

Scientists after 

school environmental 

education program 

throughout 

Texas, and, is now 

registering school 

and home schooling 

sites for Winter and 

Spring 2003. These 

multi-week classes 

can be taught in 

English or adapted 

to a bilingual English/Spanish 

audience. Students 

can expect these 

60-minute sessions 

to be filled with fun, 

interactive, hands-on activities, 

while teachers and parents 

will be pleased to know 

their youth are building a 

strong, basic science foundation 

in the areas of: botany, 

geology, biology, and ecology. 

Upon completion of the program, 

students are awarded the 

Junior Nature Scientist certificate. 

For more information, or 

to set-up your school as a site, 

contact Jackie McFadden, 512- 

990-9396, 

eeant@austin.rr.com. 

New Sierra Cubs 

Camps 2003 

During 2003, the Sierra 

Cubs Camps will be offered in 

Central, East, and North Texas 

for youth ages six to nine. 

Additionally, in the Austinarea, 

Sierra Club will hold a 

brand new camp for youth 

ages 10 to 13, especially 

created for those young 

scientists wanting to explore, 

and investigate connections 

in nature. See future issues 

of the Lone Star Sierran for 

more details.



Intern Justin Murrill Lends His Enthusiasm 

to the Work of the Lone Star Chapter 

St. Edward’s University Student Spends His Summer 

Working for the Environment 

The Lone Star Chapter of 

the Sierra Club was fortunate 

this summer to have 

the able assistance of 

Justin Murrill as an undergraduate 

student intern. 

Justin is a senior in the 

Honors Program at St. 

Edward’s University in 

Austin. He will graduate in 

December of this year with 

a Bachelors Degree in 

Business Administration. 

As Justin put it in a letter 

to Chapter Director Ken 

Kramer this past March 

inquiring about an internship, 

“while my degree will 

be in business, my passion 

has always been with the 

environment.” 

Infusing Passion 

into the Chapter’s 

Water Project 

Indeed Justin’s passion 

was quite evident all summer 

as he tackled one task 

after another while assisting 

the Chapter in its work 

for the Texas Living Waters 

Project, a joint undertaking of 

the Chapter with three other 

state-level environmental organizations 

to educate and mobilize 

Texans on water resources 

issues. Justin lent invaluable 

assistance to the effort to rally 

citizens in North Central Texas 

and Northeast Texas in July to 

demonstrate their opposition to 

the building of the proposed 

Marvin Nichols Reservoir [see 

related story elsewhere in this 

issue]. 

Justin also proved to be an 

awesome researcher, pulling 

together much of the information 

that will be used in a water publication 

for the general public that 

will be a work product of the Living 

Waters Project. In fact Justin has 

become so dedicated to the water 

effort that he will be spending 

some volunteer time with the 

Chapter in the fall to put the 

finishing touches to that 

document. 

Looking to the Future 

After he graduates in December, 

Justin plans to spend several 

months traveling around 

the world in the spring 

before returning to the 

United States to begin work 

on a graduate degree in 

environmental management. 

Over the long-term 

Justin is interested in 

working to bridge the gap 

that sometimes exists 

between the business world 

and environmental protection 

efforts. If anyone will 

succeed in doing so, Justin 

will be the one. The staff 

and volunteer leaders of the 

Chapter express their 

sincere thanks to Justin 

for a job well done and wish 

him the best for the future. 

Internship 

Opportunities with 

the Chapter 

Graduate or undergraduate 

students interested in 

interning with the Lone 

Star Chapter of the Sierra 

Club should contact the 

Sierra Club State Conservation 

Office in Austin to discuss 

possible internships during the 

regular or summer semesters. 

The Chapter always has openings 

for students who want to make a 

contribution to the work of the 

Sierra Club while developing the 

skills and the knowledge to become 

environmentally-responsible 

citizens in their years after 

college. Interning with the Sierra 

Club is a great opportunity, and 

the Chapter appreciates the many 

contributions made by interns 

over the years.



Lone Star Chapter Presents Awards 

for 2001 at Dinner in Houston 

Sen. David Bernsen Gives Special Address 

Each year the Lone Star Chapter presents awards to 

hardworking Sierra Club volunteers and others for their 

contributions of time, effort, and resources to the Club and 

the environment. This year the Awards Dinner was held 

in conjunction with the Chapter Conservation Conference 

in Houston. Senator David Bernsen gave a special address 

on the importance of protecting our coastal resources, 

water, and environment. 

Award Winners 

The Lone Star Chapter is grateful to the following 

individuals and groups for their efforts to enhance 

enjoyment of the outdoors, to educate the public on 

environmental issues, and/or to protect public 

health and the environment. Eight awards were 

given this year recognizing the work of these individual 

and groups during 2001 and in prior years. 

The Orrin Bonney Award, the Chapter’s highest 

award, was given to Jackie McFaddin for her years 

of service to the chapter and community as Environmental 

Education Chair. Jackie has created the 

chapter’s successful environmental education 

program, which includes after-school naturalist 

programs, summer nature camps, and other 

activities. 

The Evelyn R. Edens Award for river protection 

was given to the San Marcos River Foundation 

(SMRF) for its efforts protect water quality and environmental 

flows in the San Marcos River and the 

Guadalupe River basin. SMRF has taken the bold 

step of applying to the Texas Natural Resource 

Conservation Commission (TNRCC) for a water rights 

permit to maintain instream flows in the Guadalupe 

River basin. 

Chapter Director Ken Kramer congratulates Jackie McFadden, 

winner of the Orrin Bonney Award. 

Sen. David Bernsen speaks to the Chapter Awards Dinner. 

The Hermann Rudenberg Award for coastal protection 

was given to Mary Lou Campbell from the Lower 

Rio Grande Valley Group for her tireless work to 

protect coastal resources. She is known for her 

efforts on a variety of issues over the years, including 

protection of Padre Island and Lower Laguna 

Madre. 

The Virginia Murray Brewer Award was given to 

Claudia Blalock for her contributions to the outings 

program of the Greater Fort Worth Regional Group. 

She has been active in leading and promoting group 

outings that have drawn many members into the 

Fort Worth Group. 

The Chapter Conservation Award was given to 

Dian Avriett for her success in revitalizing and 

effectively leading the Pineywoods Regional Group. 

She has made the group a force for conservation 

action in East Texas. 

The Chapter Service Award was given to Marsha 

Meredith for her long history of service to the Alamo 

Regional Group. She has served the group in a 

variety of positions that have contributed to the 

strength and effectiveness of the San 

Antonio area group. 

The Special Service Award was given to 

Carole Baker for her persistent and successful 

advocacy for water conservation. 

She was the person most responsible for the 

passage in the last state legislative session 

of new laws promoting efficient use of water 

resources. 

The Environmental Reporting Award 

was given to Richard Smith of the Waco 

Tribune-Herald for his excellent coverage of 

water quality issues in the Bosque River 

watershed (impacted by industrial dairy 

operations), the sunset review of TNRCC, 

and other environmental issues.



Support Projects in Texas Funded by The Sierra Club Foundation 

Participate in the Earth Share of Texas 

Workplace Giving Program 

Many Lone Star Sierrans have the opportunity to 

support the work of the Lone Star Chapter of the 

Sierra Club through payroll deduction 

plans at work. The Sierra Club Foundation, 

a charitable organization, 

provides funds for a number of environmental 

projects conducted in 

Texas by the Lone Star Chapter. 

Earth Share of Texas, an umbrella 

group for Texas’ leading environmental 

and conservation groups, represents 

The Sierra Club foundation in 

workplace giving programs in this 

state. 

Most workplace giving campaigns 

are conducted from September 

through early November, so now is 

the time to look for Earth Share of 

Texas pledge cards in your workplace. 

Look for Earth Share of Texas in workplace giving 

campaign literature and on pledge cards at all state 

agencies; all state colleges and universities; federal 

agencies in most parts of Texas; Houston 

and Austin school districts; Austin, 

Dallas, El Paso and Houston municipal 

offices; and many private employers, 

including American Airlines, Compaq 

Computer Corporation, Dell Computer 

Corporation, Green Mountain Energy 

and Vignette. 

If your employer doesn’t offer the 

chance to support The Sierra Club 

Foundation and the other Earth Share 

of Texas environmental groups, visit 

Earth Share of Texas on the web at 

www.earthshare-texas.org, call 1-800- 

GREENTX, or e-mail estx@earthsharetexas.org. 

You may also contact Sally 

Drews, Lone Star Chapter Development Director at 

(512) 477-1729 or sally.drews@sierraclub.org. 

Get a Commanding View of Austin… 

and a Commanding Understanding 

of the Texas Legislature and 

Upcoming Environmental Legislation! 

Mark Your Calendars to Attend the 13 th Biennial Sierra Club State Legislative Workshop 

When: Saturday, November 16, 2002 

Where: St. Edward’s University, Austin 

Who: Sessions by Environmental Leaders, Legislative 

Staff, State Agency Staff, Others 

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

www.texas.sierraclub.org 

Sierra Club State Conservation Office – 512-477-1729



Join Us October 19 & 20 

for Sierra Celebration 2002 

Annual Gathering for Texas Sierrans to be Held at Selah, Bamberger 

Ranch in the Beautiful Texas Hill Country 

The Lone Star Chapter of the 

Sierra Club will hold its annual 

gathering this year on October 19 

and 20 at Selah, near Johnson 

City. Selah is 5,500 acres of 

Texas hill country that have been 

lovingly restored from “ one of the 

worst examples of abused ranchland 

in central Texas” to a working 

ranch with large areas of 

balanced grassland, native trees— 

and thus, a return to something 

similar to its original riparian 

systems. It is “…a beautiful place 

in the Texas Hill Country where 

the visitor is invited to pause and 

reflect on Nature”. 

This is the largest private 

project of its kind in Texas, and is 

a tribute to David Bamberger and 

his wife Margaret, who spent a 

fortune and half a lifetime of 

hands-on work to make it happen. 

For many of us who love nature 

but are challenged when even 

facing a back yard project with 

native plants and grasses, this is 

the ultimate challenge, answered 

resoundingly. 

Taking the ranch tour, you will 

be amazed and impressed at the 

scale and vision of this project, 

which still continues. Visit the 

wonderful man-made bat cave, and 

the charming “country store”, a 

collection of many of the tools and 

domestic items inherited from 

David’s mother, who was a major 

inspiration. Join us to experience 

and celebrate Selah and enjoy the 

hospitality of the Bambergers and 

their staff. 

Logistics & Schedule of 

Activities 

We will gather late Saturday 

morning; have lunch in the lodge 

and then an afternoon tour of 

Selah on the open air “trolley” that 

will include much helpful information 

on grassland and riparian 

habitat restoration. Late afternoon 

we will gather again at the lodge 

for a social hour and then eat 

dinner, after which there will be 

special guests, music and presentations. 

Sunday we will have breakfast 

and then have the option of a visit 

and hike (7.5 miles as well as 

shorter trails) at nearby 

Pedernales Falls State Park or a 

visit to Lyndon B. Johnson National 

Historical Park. We will 

officially depart Selah after breakfast 

Sunday when we leave on our 

visit to the parks. Those not 

visiting the State or National 

Parks may relax at Selah for the 

morning. 

All meals will be provided by 

Selah, refreshments by the chapter, 

and all are included in the 

$59.00 per person fee for the 

weekend. You are encouraged to 

bring your own linens; if provided 

they are $5 per person additional. 

Lodging is bunkhouse style, with 

separate quarters for men and 

women. Limited tent sites will be 

available at the same weekend 

price. No pets will be allowed. 

Directions to Selah will be sent 

with your confirmation of 

registration. 

For more information about 

Sierra Celebration contact Jennifer 

Walker at the Sierra Club 

State Conservation Office, 512- 

477-1729 or by e-mail at 

lonestar.chapter@sierraclub.org. 

For more information about 

Selah, the Bamberger Ranch, 

check out the ranch web site at 

http://www.bambergerranch.org. 

Sierra Celebration 2002 Registration Form 

Name:__________________________________ 

Address:_______________________________ 

City:_________________ State:_____ Zip:________ 

Phone Number:_____________________________ 

E-mail:_________________________________ 

Please register ______ persons for Sierra 

Celebration ($59 dollars per person provides 

lodging, meals, refreshments, and ranch tour). 

I will / will not bring my own linens. 

(Linens will be provided for a $5 per person fee. 

Children 12 years & younger are free.) 

I would like vegetarian meals ______(#). 

Total registration fee paid:____________ 

Please make checks payable to: 

Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter 

Attn: Sierra Celebration 

Mail Payment and Registration Form to: 

P.O. Box 1931, Austin, TX 78767 

MC/VISA #:__________________________________ 

Exp. Date:_____________ Amount:_____________ 

Signature:___________________________________ 

For more information, contact the Lone Star Chapter 

Office at 512/477-1729 

Registration Deadline: October 9th


Chapter Directory 

Lone Star Chapter State Conservation Office: Mailing: P.O. Box 1931,Austin 78767 512/477-1729 

Physical: 54 Chicon, Austin, TX 78702 (fax)512/477-8526 

http://www.texas.sierraclub.org lonestar.chapter@sierraclub.org 

Executive Committee: 

Chair Wendel Withrow, 1120 Metrocrest #200, Carrollton 75006 wwithrow@wfmlaw.com 972/416-2500 

Vice-Chair David Toner, 8901 Bluff Springs Road, Austin 78744 david_toner@juno.com 512/291-9152 

Conservation Andy Balinsky, 6601 Auburndale St., Austin 78723 balinsky@employees.org 512/926-7312 

Membership Jane Craig, 3107 Darnell Drive, Austin, TX 78745 janecraig@yahoo.com 512/280-7006 

Secretary Andy Balinsky, 6601 Auburndale St., Austin 78723 balinsky@employees.org 512/926-7312 

Karen Foley, 300 Lemon Drive, Arlington 76018 817/535-1152 

Frank Blake, 1010 Peden St. #3, Houston 77006 frankblake@msn.com 713/528-2896 

Ola Humphries, P.O Box 30422., Houston 77249 squeely450@aol.com 713/864-1553 

David Gray, 9432 Viewside Drive, Dallas 75311 dgray@rsn.hp.com 214/342-2019 

Page Williams, 4229 West Alabama, Houston, TX 77027 pagewilliams@cs.com 713/622-8533 

Legal Chair Roger Turner, P.O. Box 140663, Dallas, TX 75214 rturner@wfmlaw.com 214/328-7296 

Treasurer Hector Gonzalez, 615 Willow, San Antonio 78202 hjgonzalez@aol.com 210/226-6069 

Outings David Toner (see above) 

Alamo Group Rep. Hector Gonzalez (see above) 

Big Bend Group Rep. Susan Curry, 901 W. Sul Ross, Alpine 79830 curry@brooksdata.net 915/837-1477 

Cross Timbers Rep. Randy Wolf, 13026 Cobble Stone St., Aubrey 76227 rwolf@balconesresources.com 940/323-9472 

Dallas Group Rep. Rita Beving, 14605 Dartmouth ct., Addison 75001 antiquerita@aol.com 214/373-3808 

Galveston Group Rep. Mark Muhich, P.O. Box 1392, Galveston 77553 markmuhich@aol.com 409/763-0482 

Fort Worth Group Rep. Tolbert Greenwood, 6813 River Bend Rd, Ft. Worth tgreenwood@canteyhanger.com 817/877-2842 

Houston Group Rep. John Wilson, 518 Woodland, Houston 77009 wilson@ghasp.org 713/868-2601 

Lower Rio Grande Valley Ed Glaze, P.O. Box 128, Port Mansfield 78598 eglaze@vsta.com 956/944-2355 

Conservation Issue Chairs: 

Big Thicket Brandt Mannchen, 5115 Maple, Bellaire 77401 713/664-5962 

Clean Air George Smith, 6014 Woodbrook Lane, Houston 77008 713/862-1669 

Coastal Resources Mary Lou Campbell, RR #2 Box 88 Mercedes 78570 956/514-9321 

Mark Muhich (see above) 

Pat Suter, 1002 Chamberlain, Corpus Christi, 78404 361/852-7938 

Wildlife Conservation 

Page Williams (see above) and Ola Humphries (see above) 

National Forest Protection Brandt Mannchen, (see above) 

Water Resources Sheril Smith, Rt. 1, Box 337, McDade. TX 787650 512/273-1188 

Forestry Practices George Russell, 1401 19th St., Huntsville 77340 409/295-8286 

Population Molly Bean, 2502 Barton Hills Drive, Austin, TX 78704 512/441-1230 

Ed Glaze, P.O. Box 128, Port Mansfield 78598 956/944-2355 

Chapter Activity Chairs & Leaders: 

Env. Education Jackie McFadden, 2412 Rick Whinery Rd., Austin 78728 eeant@austin.rr.com 512/990-9396 

Legal Chair 

Roger Turner (see above) 

Political 

Ola Humphries (see above) 

Chapter Staff: 

Chapter Director Ken Kramer, P.O. Box 1931, Austin 78767 kenwkramer@aol.com 512/476-6962 

Natural Resources Dir. Brian Sybert, P.O. Box 1931, Austin, 78767 brian.sybert@sierraclub.org 512/477-1729 

Clean Air Prog. Dir. Neil Carman, P.O. Box 1931, Austin,78767 neil_carman@greenbuilder.com 512/472-1767 

Program Asstistant Jennifer Walker, P.O. Box 1931, Austin, 78767 jennifer.walker@sierraclub.org 512/477-1729 

Grassroots Outreach Erin Rogers, P.O. Box 1931, Austin, 78767 erinrogers1@earthlink.net 512/477-1729 

Communications Dir. Fred Richardson, P.O. Box 1931, Austin, 78767 fred.richardson@sierraclub.org 512/477-1729 

Water Quality Project Justin Taylor, P.O. Box 1931, Austin, TX 78767 justin.taylor@sierraclub.org 512/477-1729 

Development Director Sally Drews, P.O. Box 1931, Austin, TX 78767 sally.drews@sierraclub.org 512/477-1729 

Texas/Arkansas Field Office: 

Field Rep. Larry Freilich, 2906 Medical Arts, 78705 txar@earthlink.net 512/472-9094 

Sierra Club National Office: 

85 Second St., 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105-3441 415/977-5500


Regional Directory 

Regional Group Directory 

Alamo: David Klar, Chair, P.O. Box 6443, San Antonio, TX 78209, (210) 222-8195, dklar63162@aol.com or 

http://www.sierraclub.org/chapters/tx/alamo, Mtgs: 3 rd Tuesday of the month, 7:15 p.m., Unitarian Church, 

806 Beryl, Loop 410 and IH-10, San Antonio. 

Austin: Karin Ascot, Chair, PO Box 4581, Austin 78765, (512) 443-1135, kascot@io.com or http:// 

www.sierraclub.org/chapters/tx/austin, Mtgs: 1st Tuesday of the month, 6:30 p.m., LCRA Hancock Bldg., 

3701 Lake Austin Blvd., Austin. 

Big Bend: Don Dowdey, Chair, 50 Sunny Glen, Alpine, TX 79830, (915) 837-3210, dwdmdb@overland.net 

Mtgs: 3rd Tuesday in February, March, April, May, September, October, November, and December. Time: 7 

p.m. Place: Lawrence Hall on the Sul Ross University Campus, Room 309. www.sierraclub.org/chapters/tx/ 

bigbend. 

Brazos Valley: David Wade, Chair, 6304 Midwest Drive, Bryan, TX 77802, (979) 846-3538, 

dmwade@txcyber.com or http://www.sierraclub.org/chapters/tx/brazos, Mtgs: Call for time and location. 

Caprock: Sarah Learmonth, Chair, 3815 49 th , Lubbock, TX 79413, (806) 793-6864. 

sarah_learmonth@hotmail.com. Mtgs: 3 rd Tuesday of the Month at Texas Tech Law School, 7:00 PM. 

Central Texas: Anita Baez, Chair, P.O. Box 2775, Temple, TX 76503, (254) 778-5501. Murray McCarley, Co- 

Chair, (254) 771-3756. Mtgs: First Wednesday of every month. Call for time and location. 

Coastal Bend: Pat Suter, Chair, 1002 Chamberlain, Corpus Christi, TX 78404, (361) 852-7938, 

phsuter@aol.com or http://www.sierraclub.org/chapters/tx/coastalbend, Mtgs: 3rd Tuesday of the month, 

11:30 a.m., Art Community Center, 100 Shoreline Dr, Corpus Christi. 

Cross Timbers: Peggy La Point, Chair, tnplapoint@aol.com (940) 891-4984 The Cross Timbers Group does not 

hold group meetings, they communicate via e-mail and newsletters. Contact Peggy La Point at the above 

phone number and /or e-mail. 

Dallas: John Rath, Chair, (817) 488-3489, john.rath@fritolay.com or http://www.sierraclub.org/chapters/tx/ 

dallas, Mtgs: 2nd Wednesday of the month, 7: 00 p.m., E.D. Walker School, corner of Monfort and Wozencraft 

(Mapsco 15S). 

Galveston: Mark Muhich, Chair, P.O. Box 1392, Galveston, TX 77553, (409) 763-0482, 

markmuhich@aol.com, Mtgs: 3 rd Thursday of every month, 7p.m. at Rosenberg Library. 

Golden Triangle: Bruce Sieve, Chair, 3155 French Road, Apt. 208, 409/892-4768. 

Mtgs: 1st Tues. of the month, Trinity Methodist Church, 3430 Harrison, Beaumont. 

Greater Ft. Worth: Tolbert Greenwood, Chair, 6813 River Bend Road, Ft. Worth, TX 76132, (817) 346-3140, 

tgreenwood@canteyhanger.com. Mtgs: 3rd Wednesday of the month, 7:00 p.m., North Texas College Science 

and Health Center at Camp Bowie and Montgomery, Fort Worth. 

Houston: Arlene Diehl, Chair, P.O. Box 3021, Houston, TX 77253-3021, (281)356-6837 arlenediehl@cs.com or 

http://lonestar.sierraclub.org/houston/ Mtgs: 1st Thursday of the month, 7.00 p.m. Central Presbyterian 

Church, 3788 Richmond (Parking lot accessible from Timmons). 

Lower Rio Grande Valley: Ed Glaze, Chair, P.O. Box 128, Port Mansfield, TX 78598-0128. (956) 944-2355, 

eglaze@VSTA.com. Group website: http://www.egroups.com/group/valleysierrans Mtgs: vary as to time and 

place. 

North East Texas: Richard LeTourneau, Chair, 903/643-0060, richardoii@aol.com. Call for meeting times 

and locations. 

Piney Woods: Dian Avriett, Chair, 936-639-6322, cdavriett@aol.com. Call for meeting times and locations 

Red River: Joy Parsons, Chair, 4723 Augusta Ln., Wichita Falls 76302, (940)692-1220. Mtgs: 2nd Thursday of 

the month, 7:15 p.m., St. Stephens Episcopal Church, 5023 Lindale, Wichita Falls. 

Two Rivers: Bruce Allen, Chair, 8924 Gladedale, Woodway, TX 76712. (254)776-3036 allenbw@earthlink.net. 

Mtgs: 1st Monday of the month, Waco McLennam Library, 1717Austin Ave


Lone Star Chapter Calendar 2002 

September 6 Steering Committee Meeting Austin 

September 28 Regional Water Conference Houston 

October 5 Regional Water Conference Dallas 

October 12 Regional Water Conference San Marcos 

October 19-20 Sierra Celebration Johnson City 

Selah (Bamberger Ranch) 

October 26 Regional Water Conference Mercedes 

November 16 State Legislative Workshop Austin 

November 17 Executive Committee Meeting Austin 

Lone Star Sierran 

Sierra Club 

P.O. Box 1931 


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Austin, Texas 

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Fall 2002 - Lone Star Chapter, Sierra Club

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