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Sierra Club Monthly Program: The Austin-Bastrop River Corridor Partnership
February 8, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Our monthly Austin Sierra Club meeting will be online via Zoom.
We’ll start off with Announcements on current events… Tonite’s main program is The Austin-Bastrop River Corridor Partnership: 19 years of Change along the Colorado River with Kevin Anderson, Ph.D. , Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend.
This presentation will look at past and present efforts to foster the goals of the Austin-Bastrop River Corridor Partnership and look towards the future as Teslandia and other development expands along the Colorado River corridor.
In February 2003 the Austin Water Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend hosted a meeting to discuss the future of the Colorado River corridor downstream of Austin along the 90-miles of the Colorado River from Longhorn Dam to Smithville, in light of the announcement that eastern Travis County was the “Desired Development Zone” for the growth of Austin. That meeting was the start of the Austin-Bastrop River Corridor Partnership, which is not a non-profit organization, but rather an informal partnership of governmental agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, landowners, and concerned citizens committed to advancing a shared vision for the river corridor. www.facebook.com/austinbastroprivercorridor
Dr. Kevin M. Anderson has been the manager of the Austin Water Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend since 2000. His environmental career began on a Pennsylvania farm, and it has since ranged from running an organic farm in Potomac, Maryland to helping start a river conservation foundation in Northeastern Hungary as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He received his Master’s degree in Philosophy from Ohio University. He was beginning his Ph.D. dissertation in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 when he met some UT geographers who encouraged him to switch programs; he completed his Ph.D. in Geography from UT Austin.
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