Brazos river conservation coalition

e-newsletter

Issue # 16

March 20, 2008

In This Issue

Dan Loomis will address the March meeting

BRCC Activity Update and website changes

Important websites and e-mail addresses

BRCC Officers

President:

Billy Teels

Vice President:

JoAnn Matthews

Corp. Secretary:

Sandy Wilkins

Temp. Recording Secretary:

Phyllis Webster

Treasurer:

Phil Delucchi

Website Address

www.brazosriverconservation.org

Newsletter Publisher:

Jack D’Amario, Chairman

Programs and Publicity Committee

jndamario@alltel.net

Dan Loomis Addressed The March BRCC

The Brazos River conservation Coalition hosted its regular monthly public meeting at the Langdon Center Concert Hall on Mach 11^th at 7:00 PM. The guest speaker was Dan Loomis, known locally as the largemouth bass fishing guide at Bass Schoolin Dan will discuss the degradation of Lake Granbury caused by the growing carp population, carp behavior and control.

Mr. Loomis says he retired and moved to Granbury in 2001 because working was interfering with his bass fishing. He spends six days a week on the lake and has come to know it very well.

His dedication to the lake is evidenced by his consultation work with the Watershed Protection Plan Stakeholders and Joan Glass, Kills and Spills Biologist with Texas Parks And Wildlife.

BRCC Activity Update

BRCC President Billy Teels has been busy during recent months preparing for the legislative effort to have the John Graves Scenic Riverway extended through Hood County. The draft of the Hood County Commissioners Court resolution of support for the legislation has been finalized and will soon be presented to the Court. It is planned to meet with Granbury Mayor David Southern so a similar resolution can be passed by the Granbury City Council. Chamber of Commerce support is also being pursued.

Several maps of the Brazos River basin have been obtained from the BRA. These will be used as support material for presentations to promote the riverway designation.

Communications are moving back and forth between the offices of Representative Jim Keffer, Senator Kip Averitt and President Billy Teels and Ed Lowe, president of the Friends of The Brazos River, in an effort to find a date for them all to meet and lay out the plan for the introduction and passage of the riverway legislation. The FBR is eager to have the designation extended through Somervell County.

BRCC Website Changes

The BRCC website is undergoing some changes. BRCC Hood and the BRCC had been maintaining separate websites. To ensure that there is no ambiguity about the unity of the BRCC it has been decided to use the BRCC’s original website exclusively. Phil Delucchi and the new web manager, Bradley Davis, have been busy shutting down the BRCC Hood website and transferring the content to the BRCC website. There may be a delay in getting some content posted, but Phil assures that the result will be worth any temporary interruptions. Visit the site at: www.brazosriverconservation.org.

Important Websites and E-mail Addresses

U. S. CONGRESS

Senator Kay Bailey-Hutchison Senator John Cornyn

http//Hutchison.senate.gov http//cornyn.senate.gov

(e-mail both via website)

Representative Chet Edwards

chris.kelly@mail.house.gov

TEXAS LEGISLATURE

State Senator Kip Averitt State Representative Jim Keffer

becky.dixon@senate.state.tx.us trent.thomas@house.state.tx.us

STATE INFORCEMENT AGENCIES

Brazos River Authority Texas Commission on